Big Mess o' Wires AY-3-8913 Music Demo

Demo of an AY-3-8913 programmable sound generator chip, driven by a custom-built CPU known as Big Mess o' Wires. For more information see www.stevechamberlin.com/cpu

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• computers
• electronics
• digital music
• retro
• AY-3-8910
• Spectrum

[supercompute1983]

that's awesome, i'm currently in the build of a ttl cpu myself (8-bit data bus and 16 bit address)

what frequency is the machine running at?

[stevechamberlin]

2MHz

[stevechamberlin]

Every time I try to post a comment with a link to the song, YouTube filters it out as spam. It's really irritating.

Try doing a Google search for:

"sergey bulba" "archives of music"

The first result is the page you need.

[stevechamberlin]

The song in the demo video is called Agent X II, by The *genious* Tim Follin. Its a Spectrum ZX tune that I downloaded as part of an emulator collection, then converted for direct playback on the AY-3-8913. No MP3 version, sorry.

[dahahaka]

@stevechamberlin is it possible to overclock it ?

[khisanth75]

Agent X 2 music, love it !!

[NoFak3rs]

I build my own computer as well, but only with transistors. It has only a 1bit Processor

and because of that only a one bit data bus. With my cousins I have this channel NoFak3rs. There I show a bit about how it works, but on german.

PianoMan

[TheOneToxic]

There is the mixer on the breadboard.... Looks like crap

hahaha, funny as hell

Nice computer :)

[guruflorida]

I understand why you would make your own CPU for the fun of it...but why in TTL when FPGAs offer gads of logic fun without all the wire tracing, pcb design and other headaches?

I just got the AY-3-8913 in a jameco grab bag.

I have 3 articles completed for a diy cpu on my website.

[LucidScience]

Great projects!



[psyjax]

I want to build my own computer. What a cool project! You should write a book on the process :)

[thehaircrow]

@stevechamberlin thx

[lemongrapesfilms]

I love a good chiptune!