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Building and testing a SID chip expansion for the Sinclair Spectrum.

CRG 8,840 11 months ago
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Two of the most infamous computers of the 1980s brought together over music. In this video we attempt to build a SID expansion for the Sinclair Spectrum and try to get it playing a few SID music files. Massive thanks to SparxUK for kindly donating this project. Additional thanks to @YawningAngelRetro for letting me hold onto his 128k for this build. Project Links ZX-TSID - https://github.com/UzixLS/zx-tsid NSID - https://zxart.ee/eng/software/tool/music/muzykalnye-plejery/nsid-player-pro/ Tapir utility can be found on this page - https://worldofspectrum.net/utilities/ Other YouTube Channels mentioned in this video @WhatHoSnorkers - Spectrum based coding skills and cosplay (you just need to watch it to understand) CRG Links CRG X (Twitter) - https://twitter.com/YT_CRG CRG Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/user?u=13919007 CRG Discord - https://discord.gg/3hEzUxTxWV Chapters 00:00 Intro 02:22 Assembly 18:29 Programming 24:12 5V regulator at 5V 26:22 Initial testing 31:02 NSID player pro 34:42 Testing 43:00 Another look at the SwinSID 44:54 Finally figured it out 50:19 Conclusion

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