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 →

Z80 and AY-3-8910 – Part 2

I've spent a bit of time looking at the "Tester" part of the AY driver code for Tim Follin's music archive that I talked about in Z80 and AY-3-8910. This is documenting what I think I've worked out so far for the tester code. Part 1 - Initial analysis and a look at the sound … Continue reading Z80 and AY-3-8910 – Part 2 →

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 →