ZX81 has no sound? So I recorded an album on it. :)

[yerzmyey]

Yo, maybe somebody would be interested.

 

DOWNLOAD: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/

This is a collection of songs made on ZX81 with TurboSound for ZX81 (two ZonX interfaces - on different ports - to play simultaneously 6 channels).

**ALL** has been written on real ZX81 machine - NO EMULATORS have been USED.

All titles are somehow related with ZX81 machine.

The album is for fans of YM2149 and for AY fans.

Tracklist:

01. Yerzmyey - ZX81

02. Yerzmyey - New Line

03. Yerzmyey - UrsULA

04. Yerzmyey - Motherboard Circuit ISSUE ONE

05. Yerzmyey - Break Space

06. Yerzmyey - Earport

07. Yerzmyey - Touch sense

TOTAL TIME: 29:39 min.

Full quality (more/less) 3-pages cover-art to download: http://yerzmyey.i-de...-zx81-cover.zip

 

INFO:

ZX81 is a British monochrome computer as big as an adult man's hand-palm. It has touch-sense keyboard and 1Kb of RAM only and it's been released in 1981 (American version is Timex 1000 and Timex 1500).

It had a modular construction, so people weren't forced to buy all the hardware in one machine, if they didn't need it. So - if anybody required additional RAM, he could buy 16Kb RamPack or more.

If somebody needed sound - he was able to buy a ZonX sound-module (with YM/AY chip inside).

Finally we decided it's not enough for us. ;) ZonXes are still being produced by various guys. And now - one machine is interesting for our porpose: Mr-X, because it is a through-out device - more interfaces can be connected to it. So - we decided to connect two sound-modules to ZX81 (one of them is on different ports than another) to obtain 6 channels of sound.

And... IT'S ALIVE!!!!!! Yes - You can here listen to 6-channels music composed on real ZX81 32Kb with two YM/AY interfaces (ZXpand-AY and Mr-X). Also I recorded the music from real ZX81 hardware.

To compose the songs I used Andy Rea's "ZX81 SoundTracker" (first I made one half of every song, then the second one, because the SoundTracker for ZX81 can support only one AY chip - 3 channels).

Then I recorded them from the same ZX81 with ZXpand-AY and Mr-X modules (using TurboSound Player).

Thanx go to Andy Rea for the software (ZX81 SoundTracker, TurboSound Player), also to ZX81 hardware developers: SirMorris (ZXpand and ZXpand-AY) and to Sascha2000 (Mr-X).

If You're interested in news from ZX81/Timex1000/Timex1500 world, then visit us on our forum:

http://www.rwapservi...80_ZX81/forums/

© & (P) 06.2012 by YERZMYEY

 

Enjoy.

Y

[GroovyBee]

Only listened to the first track and its pretty funky. Keep it up!

[yerzmyey]

Thx man. ;)

[Rex Dart]

I didn't know you had an account here, Yerzmyey.

 

This is great stuff, just like the rest of your tunes. Going on my MP3 player for sure. Thank you!

Edited June 26, 2012 by Rex Dart

[Mr SQL]

Wow, those zx81 tunes are awesome yerzmyey! Great work! I like all of your chiptunes music and the selection of machines you created them with - really fantastic! :)

[yerzmyey]

Thanks again, my friends. :) :)

 

And about the hardware - and the account - yupp, I am interested in many oldschool platform, including Atari Lynx, Atari ST and Falcon, so I am here, on the Forum, for some time (not too short actually ).

 

Thx & greetzzzzzz,

Y

Edited June 27, 2012 by yerzmyey