cobracommander.bsky.social
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Progress on the Phillips SAA 1099 soundchip. Wrote a minute loop that will be expanded to a full song. The 6 channels on this thing are awesome. Having two noise channels is really handy for percussion. I'm learning as I go so I'm still exploring the possibilities. #retrocomputing
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Working on a tune for the SAA 1099 soundchip. Thanks to the dude who put a tracker specifically for this chip on GitHub.
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Revisiting some stuff I wrote a while back for the Sam Coupé. I have never seen this computer in my life. I have its Phillips SAA1099 soundchip now, though.
October 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Working on a new tune for Commodore 64. Almost done. Gonna throw it on the card @samcoupe.com sent me when I'm done.
October 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Here it is with the original, default setup in all of its bass-less glory, proving my accusations are not baseless. The ZXTT saved my butt on this project, so thanks my man. If you figure out why this is I'm all ears. The original Arkos Tracker YM file is configured to the 1.73400 Speccy frequency.
July 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Playing one of my tunes through the RC2014 AY-3-8910 soundcard. HUGE shout-out to my man @samcoupe.com !! The ZXTT solved 95% of my problems with the card, the only thing I have to work on now is file formats. YM2MYM doesn't quite do the trick but I found some trackers that might do the job.
July 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Soldered together a GI SP0256-AL2 speech synthesis soundcard for the RC2014. This thing is so cool! Hello, world!
May 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I put a bunch of RM Brown drops into a Super Nintendo and made a tune out of them. SNES + RM Brown = SN Brown
April 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Nevermind, I found the problem. I have one dead SID chip (RIP) and one dead SwinSID (good riddance, that thing was terrible compared to the ArmSID or the real deal).

Anywho, thank you so much! This is awesome!

Seriously though, would a Phillips SAA1099 module be possible on the RC2014?
March 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Successful test for the emulated AY-3-8910 RC2014 soundcard. Cool.
March 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM