Games with AY music for the TS2068
2 messages · 2010-04-09 → 2010-04-20 · Yahoo Group era · View archive on archive.org
Participants: zxbruno, cheveron
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1. Games with AY music for the TS2068
zxbruno · Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:30
Last year I thought of asking a friend to help me make an external AY interface for the TS2068 which would use the same ports as the Spectrum one. Before someone says "We already have the AY chip!" ,I know. It's not needed, but every Spectrum software that has AY sound or music (or both) requires hacking to make it work on the TS2068, and not everyone's a hacker... I know we have a few titles that were already converted, but did you know there are more than 100 games that you could be enjoying on the TS2068? Yerzmyey, a popular Sinclair musician among Spectrum users, came up with the following list just 2 weeks ago:
http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/48K_AY_games.html
I've seen the instructions on how to make the required changes to convert the games to use the AY chip on the TS2068, but I don't know how to do it. How about we turn this list into a to-do list and little by little convert them? Can anyone help?
We should start by looking at the games already available on the group and mark them as "converted". Those who understand machine code can check the Timex and Spectrum wikis and see which port writes need changing. This would be a great project for the TS2068 community.
2. Re: Games with AY music for the TS2068
cheveron · Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:40
You're still going to need to run the majority of them with a Spectrum ROM cart.
--- In [email], "zxbruno" <zxspectrum128@...> wrote:
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> Last year I thought of asking a friend to help me make an external AY interface for the TS2068 which would use the same ports as the Spectrum one. Before someone says "We already have the AY chip!" ,I know. It's not needed, but every Spectrum software that has AY sound or music (or both) requires hacking to make it work on the TS2068, and not everyone's a hacker... I know we have a few titles that were already converted, but did you know there are more than 100 games that you could be enjoying on the TS2068? Yerzmyey, a popular Sinclair musician among Spectrum users, came up with the following list just 2 weeks ago:
>
> http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/48K_AY_games.html
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> I've seen the instructions on how to make the required changes to convert the games to use the AY chip on the TS2068, but I don't know how to do it. How about we turn this list into a to-do list and little by little convert them? Can anyone help?
>
> We should start by looking at the games already available on the group and mark them as "converted". Those who understand machine code can check the Timex and Spectrum wikis and see which port writes need changing. This would be a great project for the TS2068 community.
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