ZX Spectrum music creation
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| Does anyone know of a good way to make ZX Spectrum sounding music with something like FL Studio? A dedicated Spectrum tracker would be even better but I cannot find one :( Nor can I find a good description of the Spectrums abilities. Can anyone help me out? What was the Spectrum (128k) capable of? I recall hearing some cool tunes towards the end of its life. Jason. |
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Instrument_AY-3-8910 |
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| What was the Spectrum (128k) capable of? They're useful for rendering small vermin unconscious, for wedging open heavy doors, and a mate of mine once removed its 'giblets' and turned it into a pencil case. |
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| You could make Spectrum sounding music with a spectrum sound emulator... Just write your music in the correct format and play it in the emulator. |
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| RetroMusic? http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=79151 |
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| Sometimes when I visit my local Barnes & Noble store, I see in the back of Retro Gamer, a magazine sold at the store, classifieds advertising the sale of '80s computers such as the Spectrum, the Atari 800, Commodore 64, etc. Sometimes, I do miss my Commodore 64, and ZX81. At the prices that they're selling them for, I would buy one for old times sake. Because I was young, I had to get rid of the old ones I had bought before. Does anyone here have thoughts about buying one of the older 8-bit machines for fond memories? |
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| I still have my C64 in the garage. It sits below 2 Amiga's; 500 & 1200. Can't imagine them working though. As for the Spectum,... Firmware: 3.54 MHz Zilog Z80A CPU 16K / 48K RAM (later 128K RAM) Display: 32 x 22 character text display 256 x 192 pixel resolution 8 colours Sound: 1 channel, 5 octave (16/48K Spectrums) 3 channel, 7 octaves (128K Spectrums) I/O: Z80 bus, tape, RF television (All Spectrums) External numeric keypad (Spectrum 128) RS232 - Midi Out, RGB, Joystick (Spectrum 128, +2, +2A, +3) Storage: Built-in tape recorder (Spectrum +2, +2A) Build-in 3" disk drive (Spectrum +3) |
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| The Timex/Sinclair is a Spectrum, isn't it? (The Timex was sold in the USA) I remember seeing them for sale for like $49 (with extra memory modules for only $15/each!) I would have bought one if I didn't already have a C-64 at the time with... Simon's BASIC! That was a cool BASIC (about a million times more useful than CBM BASIC) Anyway, I still fire up my old Amiga 1200 every once in a while, and play CCS-64 on the PC. Ah, those were the good ol days. Russell |
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| To create spectrum music, try "Vortex Tracker"; It works on PC and generate .pt3 files, I use it to make some musics for MSX :) The tracker can play the music on PC (emulating several sound-chips), so you can have ZX Spectrum - or MSX, CPC, C64... I dont have the URL here with me, but if you google for Vortex Tracker, PT3, etc, it should appear pretty fast :) |
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| This is interesting : http://zxtunes.com/software.php?id=25 Good ole Google. |
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| Thanks for the help everyone looks like Vortex Tracker is the best option for the PC. I will have a go with the true Speccy ones too but I guess they are totally keyboard driven? What are Speccy emulators like nowadays? I`m guessing that they are pretty accurate. Are there 128k versions? Jason. |
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| Speecy was pretty horrid for sound, even compared to a BBCmicro-B 32k heh remember this caccophony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxXh4qxWB_0 |
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| I haven't seen many 128k emulators, probably something to do with how the 128k worked. It actually paged the memory, so you could only access 32k (I think) at a time, switching between pages to access the remainder. All in all, the emulators are fine, aside fr some jopystick compatibility, though, the old "Sinclair" Joystick used to represent keypresses anyway. |
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| All in all, the emulators are fine, aside fr some jopystick compatibility, though, the old "Sinclair" Joystick used to represent keypresses anyway. aye player one was 67890 and two 12345 i think 69 were left/right and 78 up/down 0 fire the +2/3 and im guessing the 128 too as it was afaik the same sans built in tape/disk drive used that ay chip, but without checking i think the z80 did that on the 48k i dont recall any really great themes (that wernt done better on another system) mind you i was never a chip music fan in them days i think pc's missed out on this, aside from pc beep soundblaster vered towards samples very early on iir dont know what adlib was like |
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| ugh, thanks for highlighting my awful 'type-too-fast' spelling :/ |
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| Thread resurrection just for that? |
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| Spectrum trackers ... http://zxtrackers.republika.pl/ |
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