[Coco] more 1 bit madness

[Simon Jonassen]

See, the SSC makes things a heck of alot easier....

Especially if you program it in direct mode..... 

The only downside is having to poll it to see if it's ready for more input

/Simon :-)
 

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vegne af Steve
Sendt: 21. januar 2014 07:35
Til: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Emne: Re: [Coco] more 1 bit madness

May folks out there may not know that a large number of CoCo games did
support the speech sound pak for better music and sound fx.  It also has the
advantage of speeding up the game a bit too.

Steve

On 1/20/2014 10:24 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:
> Steve <6809er at ...> writes:
>
>> Tandy did put a 3-voice sound chip in CoCo,  the never released 
>> Deluxe Color Computer that would sold for twice the price of the CoCo 2.
>>
>> But that's the problem.  Adding stuff like that would add to the cost 
>> of the computer.  The only reason we got the CoCo 3 was its build 
>> cost lower that the CoCo 2.
>
> This is definetely the case.
>
> What may have also swayed them away from providing sound is that Tandy 
> sold a sound and speech cartridge. They probably thought "There's your 
> sound chip!" and "we can profit by selling that as an add-on 
> expansion" (along with a multi-pak!).
>
> With Tandy it was always about money. Keep costs down and profits up.
>
> Nick
>
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