Musik100 by BSC is an Amstrad CPC demo of a new sound engine. You will find more details on CPCWiki.
You can see and especially listen to this demo on Youtube. Listen also to this other youtube video using the same sound engine.
Dont be afraid to go to his Soundcloud page.
Cymbob did announce on Twitter the death of his friend : Ultrasyd, requiescat in pace :-( . There are informations that I would prefer not having to write about it... All the things he wrote will stay in our memories.
A new version of Mod Master XT beta 22 by FreddyV is available on Vogons. It lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC under msdos even a PC XT (CGA), for example an Amstrad PC 1512/1640 or a PPC 512/640...
New features are :
WARNING: Don't use Pause, it does not work.
BSC has released the source code of Soundtrakker 128.
He is also the author of AYAY Kaeppttn!a SID player/tracker .
He is working on AY³ aka AYcubed, a new SID engine which emulates some parts of the SID sound like:
I recommand to listen to the Amstrad CPC music by Stéphane François which is composing music with a Playcity (made by ToTO), which means 3 AY sound chip for 9 channels.
A new version of Mod Master XT beta 21 by FreddyV is available on Vogons. It lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC under msdos even a PC XT (CGA), for example an Amstrad PC 1512/1640 or a PPC 512/640...
Roudoudou is writing an adventure game engine like the books where you are the hero on Youtube.
If you use the link up there you start directly at 1mn25 with sound, no sound at start of the video if you see it directly below.
If it was possible, I would vote for JB Le Daron singing with piano. To be listened to religiously.
For the pleasure of your ears, here are two musical remixes of the game International Karate :
Richard Bannister was the maintainer of a MacOS port of the Arnold emulator, now maintained by Kevin Thacker. But he is also the author of the Audio Overload utility which lets you play VGM music files, including .AY and .YM Amstrad music files. This utility runs on MacOS, Windows and Linux.
Targhan has released Arkos Tracker v2.0.0a9 for linux, windows and mac.
An Amstrad PPC640 computer with only a beeper is not good at all for sound, except if you use a parrallel adaptator such as the Covox4 or the OPL3LPT. I will test it later when Mod Master XT par FreddyV will support it.
But there is still a possibility to have the best sound possible for a msdos computer by using the DB25 serial port (with a DB9 adaptator) and a DB9 to Mini-DIN 8 pins cable (DBK-103 by Hosa Technology) connected to a SC-55st Roland expandert presented by LGR on Youtube.
In this video the sound only starts at 35 seconds so click on this link to avoid the start of the video which only shows me launching the msdos gsplay utility.
8-Bit Keys has made an interesting video showing the structure of the music played during the high score table of Commando, which he is playing on a Yamaha PSR-32 keyboard (1987).
A new version of Mod Master XT beta 19 by FreddyV is available on Vogons. It lets you hear a lot of music modules formats on any PC under msdos even a PC XT (CGA). This last version adds the support for adlib sound music files, and for a next version the support of the OPLxLPT (OPL2 and 3).
A portable computer like the Amstrad PPC 640, released in 1988 has no ISA expansion ports, he has only a feeble speaker. So you may think it isnt possible to get some nice sound except of simple beeps ?
On the Amstrad CPC it was possible to have a better sound using a Digiblaster sound card connected to the parallel port. It was a simple electronic device with several resistors, not difficult to make in fact.
Well, there is the same thing on PC since ages : the Covox Speech Thing.. It is possible to buy a Covox 4 on Serdashop which is an upgraded version of the Covox Speech Thing (higher precision resistors : 0.1% and low pass filter). For more informations about the Covox, I recommand reading the related articles on Nerdly Pleasures.
I also bought the MCE2VGA on Serdashop which lets you use a VGA external screen instead of only using the internal screen which is quite lacking.
The software used here is Mod Master XT beta 18 by FreddyV which you can download on Vogons.
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