[sdiy] Question for SN76477 / Darkstar owners - the sound?

[CnMcDo at aol.com]

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... 

http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue7/chaos.html

The sample links are misdirected. To play the sample you have to be creative. 
Notice the main url and add "issues/". For example... 

http://aural-innovations.com/issue7/s1.mp3

Becomes... 

http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue7/s3.mp3

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. 

Any opinions would be appreciated. Thanks!
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