<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">There's been a lot of talk about the SN76477 lately. Too bad they are imposible to find now. Luckily I bought a chip about 2 years ago. I never got around to building anything with it yet mostly because of this Darkstar article... <BR>
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http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue7/chaos.html<BR>
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The sample links are misdirected. To play the sample you have to be creative. Notice the main url and add "issues/". For example... <BR>
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http://aural-innovations.com/issue7/s1.mp3<BR>
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Becomes... <BR>
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http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue7/s3.mp3<BR>
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I hate to say it but, does the SN76477/Darkstar really sound this bad? Every one seems to rave about it, but these samples would lead on to believe otherwise. I'd hate to spend the time and money building a SN76477 based module and find it unusable. <BR>
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Any opinions would be appreciated. Thanks!</FONT></HTML>