Posted By
MMS
on 2016-05-08
07:36:58
 |  Re: Modern sound chip for the Plus/4?
Hi
I think the Speccy now way ahead of us, even the 48K. But it needs a 50 Pound investment 
http://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/Turbosound-FM-and-SAA1099-sound-card-for-zx-Spectrum-4057
Based on the specs it is not crystal clear, why it required 2 different FM sound chips (2x ym2203 with 3 FM channels, and an SAA1099 that is used 6 channel OPL2 FM in SAM Coupe and Soundblaster 1.0).
The Yamaha YM3014 doing the D/A (similar to Covox, but multi channel), so seems enable the MOD playback, as I saw on the Youtube. Or something similar. I do not know, how the ZX Spectrum get the CPU power to play a multichannel MOD, but it sounded like that...
UPDATE
The best and most advance sound card for 8 bit machines could be something like the SAM Coupe Quazar Surround.
It is a 6channel, 16bit external sound card (I am not sure, maybe it has it's own memory?). For me it is highly resembles a Gravis Ultrasound card specs.
Well SAM can be ugraded to 512KB or even more, so this could be a little overshoot for Plussy :-)
http://www.samcoupe.com/hardquaz.htm
you can hear it here (but I thinka stereo DAC can do a similar job):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wODAMIVCTWs&index=1&list=PLIX_JEOFSuKGLhatXwMqftG3lNpDm_jch
UPDATE2
CHOOSE YOUR DESTINY :-)
http://velesoft.speccy.cz/turbosound-cz.htm
QUESTION: Why the hell the links does not work? I use the < url > and < / url> but no change
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