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Hardware - DIGIMUZ
Name:DIGIMUZ
AKA:AY-3-8910 Card
Category:SID Card
Introduced:Unknown


About
Designed and built in Poland by Tadeusz Zawadowski, also author of Copy System +4.

This is an external card plugged into the expansion port, mounting an AY-3-8910 IC. See below about programming the chip.

The only programs that feature music for this card were written by BKP, who is the owner of the Card no. 003.


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Programming
The card can be driven by changing the values in $FD21/22/23:
$FD23 - register number
$FD22 - write to the register
$FD21 - read from the register

Register / bit B7 B6 B5 B4 B3 B2 B1 B0
R0Channel A Tone Period8-Bit Fine Tune A
R14-Bit Coarse Tune A
R2Channel B Tone Period8-Bit Fine Tune B
R34-Bit Coarse Tune B
R4Channel C Tone Period8-Bit Fine Tune C
R54-Bit Coarse Tune C
R6Noise period5-Bit Period control
R7Enable (bit 0 = on, 1 = off)IN/OUTNoiseTone
IOBIOACBACBA
R8Channel A Envelope on/off, VolumeEnvvolume
R9Channel B Envelope on/off, VolumeEnvvolume
R10Channel C Envelope on/off, VolumeEnvvolume
R11Envelope Period8-Bit Fine Tune Envelope
R124-Bit Coarse Tune Envelope
R13Envelope Shape/CycleCONTATTALTHOLD
R14I/O Port A Data Store8-Bit Parallel I/O on Port A
R15I/O Port B Data Store8-Bit Parallel I/O on Port B


A simple example, play a tone on Channel A:

LDX #$07 ;; $FE to register 7 (enable tone A)
LDA #$FE
STX $FD23
STA $FD22

LDX #$08 ;; $0F to register 8 (tone A volume to maximum)
LDA #$0F
STX $FD23
STA $FD22

LDX #$00 ;; $55 to register 0 (tone A freq to $0155)
LDA #$55
STX $FD23
STA $FD22

LDX #$01 ;; $01 to register 1
LDA #$01
STX $FD23
STA $FD22


Schematics


Working Card Video

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