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Electric Keet 81ab2acb2c Lots of little cleanup.
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# Commodore PET
a computer from 1977 which was leader on US schools back then. subsequently the Apple II took its throne.
maybe no better than a computer terminal, but somebody discovered a way to update the screen at turbo rate and eventually its sound "chip" (it was nothing more than an 8-bit shift register) was abused as well.
some of these didn't even have sound...
# effects
- `10xx`: **set waveform.** `xx` is a bitmask.