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14 lines
699 B
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# ZX Spectrum beeper
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rather than having a dedicated sound synthesizer, early ZX Spectrum models had one piezo beeper, controlled by Z80 CPU and ULA chip. its capabilities should be on par with an IBM PC speaker... right?
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not really - very soon talented programmers found out ways to output much more than one square wave channel. a lot of ZX beeper routines do exist, but as of 0.6 Furnace supports only a Follin/SFX-like engine with 6 channels of narrow pulse wave and click drums.
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# effects
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- `12xx`: set pulse width.
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- `17xx`: trigger overlay drum.
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- `xx` is the sample number.
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- overlay drums are 1-bit and always play at 55930Hz (NTSC) or 55420Hz (PAL).
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- the maximum length is 2048!
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