[sdiy] TI 76477 Space Invaders sound chip detailed analysis

Pete Hartman pete.hartman at gmail.com
Wed May 23 19:21:17 CEST 2018


Something weird going on with the article, the first page I see about this
is 36 and it starts right smack in the middle, but....

I think this is your boy.
https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-07/1979_07_BYTE_04-07_Automating_Eclipses#page/n41/mode/2up

Pete

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:12 PM, <info at synthcube.com> wrote:

> Its more than likely given the time lapsed since then... I was clearly
> reading Byte, PE and Omni all around then, lusting after a PET computer
> while toying with a neighbor's TRS-80-- but the article was definitely
> about the SN76477 and that little breadboard project was at the time, so
> cool I still remember it well!
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] TI 76477 Space Invaders sound chip detailed analysis
> From: Pete Hartman <pete.hartman at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, May 23, 2018 1:06 pm
> To: Synthcube <info at synthcube.com>
> Cc: Tim Parkhurst <tim.parkhurst at gmail.com>, cheater00 cheater00
> <cheater00 at gmail.com>, synth-diy mailing list <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:00 AM, <info at synthcube.com> wrote:
>
>> So I remember first being exposed to the SN76477 via Omni Magazine in
>> what must have been sometime from about 1978-1980. We are offering a $25
>> store gift certificate to the first person to send us the article (or a
>> link to it)-- i vaguely remember breadboarding a simple circuit with the
>> SN76477 on  Radio Shack breadboard...
>>
>>
> Apparently the July 79 BYTE magazine had an article about the AY-3-8910,
> any chance you've got your chips/magazines scrambled? :)
>
>
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