I’ll wrap up my little tour of retro digital sound playback with my first real system: the Commodore 64. Unlike the Amiga and the NES, the C64 was never really intended to manage digital soun…| Bumbershoot Software
When we added sound effects to Lights-Out, I described the NES sound system like this: This sound chip is an interesting beast: it’s got a simple synthesizer that’s comparable to the AY-3-8910, wit…| Bumbershoot Software
Let’s actually use the Genesis sound chip as intended, shall we? Let’s take a look at the Yamaha 2612. As a chip, the closest point of comparison we have is to the Creative Labs Sound B…| Bumbershoot Software
