Re: New sound chip on the market

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
> For all those people interested in sound generation a
> completely new sound chip is available - the interesting
> thing: It's a sound generator - not a sample playback device.
>
> This means usage with old  (RAM limited)  computers is a
> definitive possibility (in an appropriate card, naturally).
>
> There's also only Windows driver software available but that
> hasn't hindered people to adapt other things to the Apple  ;-)
>
> And of course no Apple software supports this thing yet
> but it's relatively cheap (PIC-based) and has some
> interesting features. Maybe this will spark some interest?
>
> http://www.retrothing.com/2007/02/a_brand_new_chi.html

Cool--an improved Mockingboard on a chip!  (Actually more
like a six-channel SID plus speech.)

I'd expect it to connect to a serial card, since it has
2400-/9600-bps serial control--a natural for //c's.  ;-)

-michael

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