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ZX81 music - YERZMYEY: "Ursula"

Written By yerzmyey on Thursday, Jun 07, 2012 | 06:21 PM

 
FULL ZX81 album in MP3 files is here: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/ ZX81 is a British monochrome computer as big as an adult man's hand-palm. It has touch-sense keyboard and 1Kb of RAM only and it's been released in 1981 (American version is Timex 1000 and Timex 1500). It had a modular construction, so people weren't forced to buy all the hardware in one machine, if they didn't need them. So - if anybody required additional RAM, he could buy 16Kb RamPack or more. If somebody needed sound - he was able to buy a ZonX sound-module (with YM/AY chip inside). Last times I showed You guys the sound possibilities of a ZX81 with one ZonX interface. But finally we decided it's not enough for us. ;) ;) ZonXes are still being produced by various guys. Especially one machine is interesting: Mr-X, because it is a through-out device - more interfaces can be connected to it. So - we decided to connect two sound-modules to ZX81 (one of them is on different ports than another) to obtain 6 channels of sound. And... IT'S ALIVE!!!!!! ;) Yes - now You can hear 6-channels music composed on real ZX81 32Kb with two YM/AY interfaces (ZXpand-AY and Mr-X). Also I recorded the music from real ZX81 hardware. To compose the song I used Andy Rea's "ZX81 SoundTracker" (first I made one half of the song, then the second one, because the SoundTracker for ZX81 can support only one AY chip - 3 channels). Then I recorded it from the same ZX81 with ZXpand-AY and Mr-X modules (using TurboSound Player). Thanx go to Andy Rea for the software (ZX81 SoundTracker, TurboSound Player), also to ZX81 hardware developers: SirMorris (ZXpand and ZXpand-AY) and to Sascha2000 (Mr-X). Entire album in MP3 format is here: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/ It has been made fully on ZX81 computer. :) If You're interested in getting new junk for Your ZX81/Timex1000/Timex1500 (and other clones) then RWAP will help You: http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/zx812.html If You're interested in news from ZX81/Timex1000/Timex1500 world, then visit us on our forum: http://www.rwapservices.co.uk/ZX80_ZX81/forums/