Z80 and AY-3-8910 – Part 3

I've spent some more time looking at how the AY sound driver used by Tim Follin for the ZX Spectrum works and one thing I always wanted to do was to see if I could get it up and running on my RC2014 just so that, well, I'm not sure, but why not? Part 1 … Continue reading Z80 and AY-3-8910 – Part 3 →

SP0256A-AL2 Speech Synthesis

I had one of those moments recently when reading an article online sent me into a bit of a major tangent. The article in question was talking about the SP0256-AL2 speech synthesizer chip. And if you heard a computer talking in the 1980s, then chances are it was probably this chip doing all the hard … Continue reading SP0256A-AL2 Speech Synthesis →