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Re: Apple //c sound - 3 channels plus noise?!



Richard,

The circuitry to support 80 column display IS on the //e motherboard, but the extra video RAM is not. Thus, the basic AUX slot 80-col card is nothing more than a 1K RAM card (possibly using memory chips from recycled Sinclair ZX80s). Likewise, the Extended 80 col card is just a 64K RAM card.

The //e revision A motherboard did not support double hi-res or double lo-res graphics, for that you require a rev. B or later.

Martin

Richard Kilpatrick wrote:
Okay, this is probably one of those "well, duh!" moments, but...

Seriously, I always thought that //c and enhanced //e were pretty much
identical. So any sounds that emerged from the //c were the regular,
friendly 'beep'.

So, I'm looking at a website, and there's a nice description of the //c,
including pictures of the motherboard (an early one without RAM expansion -
Bill, the RAM expansion models are liable to be uncommon in the UK, so I'd
really like one - I have a spare PSU for my //c). I'm unsure of the guy's
page, since he shows the 80 column hardware and claims the //e has it on
board as well (what the hell was I doing with extended 80 column cards
then?!), but there, clear as day, is an AY sound chip, as found lurking in a
lot of different machines.

Did anything ever use it? I never even knew the //c had different sound
capabilities, even when I owned one.

Richard