"Something is very wrong with the AY-3-8913"

Fascinating article about a very popular soundchip used heavily in the '80s and '90s.

https://www.fenarinarsa.com/?p=3183

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Something is very wrong with the AY-3-8913 - Coredump

This article was made at the same time than French Touch‘s intro « Digidream 2 ».We wanted to share the issues we ran into when developing this demo, and what we discovered about the General Instruments AY-3-8913 sound chip that is used on most Apple II sound cards. Click here for a free & open hardware patch … Something is very wrong with the AY-3-8913 Lire la suite »

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@blakespot Don't listen! HAL is trying to kill you!
@cenbe Let's just leave it in place and let it fail, then we can replace it and see what went wrong...
@blakespot the 89x0 fake situation has got so bad that the RC2014 emulates one with an Atmel micro-controller with a DIP socket over it so you can display your fake sound chip ...
https://rc2014.co.uk/modules/why-em-ulator-sound-module/
Why Em-Ulator Sound Module « RC2014