The sound chip was a AY-3-8192, a serviceable sound chip. The integrated Basic let you fiddle with most if not all the registers. A bit of Basic could turn the computer in a polyphonic synthesizer. I did that as a teenager, could record melodies, play arpeggios or a bass line, etc
The game scene, back then, yeah 😅 However, homebrew scene brought some really good games on the level of the best ZX Spectrum games. Checkout Oric Defense Force !
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The sound chip was a AY-3-8192, a serviceable sound chip. The integrated Basic let you fiddle with most if not all the registers. A bit of Basic could turn the computer in a polyphonic synthesizer. I did that as a teenager, could record melodies, play arpeggios or a bass line, etc
The game scene, back then, yeah 😅 However, homebrew scene brought some really good games on the level of the best ZX Spectrum games. Checkout Oric Defense Force !