> > It can produce some stunning music in the right hands, without 'demoscene tricks'
> > (which have been used recently to do sample playback on it, yes, but such tricks
> > aren't really practical for game music and aren't what the majority of them are
> using
> > since many of them are played during gameplay, when you wouldn't have the cycles
> for
> > that)
>
> Demoscene tricks maybe, recently no, not practical are you joking? It's the sound
> chip of the Atari ST...
>
> Arcade-wise the tricks usually aren't needed because a non-dma DAC costs nothing, the
> crudest version being some ttl for address decode, a latch, some resistors for
> digital-analog conversion and a lowpass filter (e.g. one resistor and one capacitor)
> to clean up the worst crap. Not sure why the computers didn't have some as a matter
> of course. It was so easy that the ST had *two* cartridges (ST replay, MV16) that did
> just that.
>
> OG.
Well I was mostly meaning you're not going to get a ZX Spectrum doing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BbBwwdueM0
during gameplay, presumably that's all your actual CPU cycles and most of the memory eaten up just on the music.
You did get various little speech clips tho, yeah.
I don't think any of the actual ingame music is anything you'd class as demoscene tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8CMScjD82o
is still one of my favourites for actual game music (It's a Rob Hubbard track)
Then you've got the Spectrum LED Storm, a Tim Folin one, which I much prefer over the arcade soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b9XjxK2RJc
and a huge number of Codemasters games too (most of the Dizzy series for example)
I'm less familiar with it's use on the Atari ST tho
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