Z80 and AY-3-8910

Finally starting to look at the Arduino and AY-3-8910 was triggered by a couple of things recently. First getting an RC2014 and playing with AY-3-8910 based sound on that. But also, having visiting RetroFest in Swindon this year, talking to Dean Belfield about the methods he used to develop for the ZX Spectrum and how … Continue reading Z80 and AY-3-8910 →

Arduino and AY-3-8910 – Part 2

Following on from my initial experiments in Arduino and AY-3-8910 this post looks at the sound generation capabilities in a little more detail and adds some basic MIDI control. Part 1 - Getting started and looking at playing YM files. Part 2 - Adding basic MIDI control. Part 3 - Basic experiments with direct digital synthesis. Part 4 … Continue reading Arduino and AY-3-8910 – Part 2 →

Arduino and AY-3-8910

I've had some AY-3-8910 programmable sound generators for a while and planned to do something with them, but they've sat in the "to think about" box for a while. But recently getting hold of the WhyEm sound card for the RC2014 has re-awakened my interest. This is some "first looks" experiments with the AY-3-8910 and … Continue reading Arduino and AY-3-8910 →