[sdiy] Question for SN76477 / Darkstar owners - the sound?

[Electronium]

Hello all,
I'm a recent re-subscriber to the list after a long absence.  My electronics knowledge was dismal back in those days, but I'm proud to say, I've now moved up to 'pathetic' status.

In any regard, I noticed all this talk of the SN76477 being long gone, etc. etc. and I thought that some of you might like to know that while ordering a few parts from Unicorn Electronics the other day, I saw that they have these chips for sale (for a stiff price of $19.95, though).  

I also noticed that they are advertising the SN76489 sound chip also.  I've got one of these in my collection, but I've got no idea how to use it.  Anyone have any data on this one?

As one last note, I bought an SN76477 a few months ago from BG Micro for something like $6.95. shoulda bought more I guess... oh well!  Although with this one, the pin spacing is different than the original (a smaller grid).

Well, that's it... glad to join you all again.

Mike Brown
mike at electronium.com
http://www.electronium.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: CnMcDo at aol.com 
  To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl ; rdd at rddavis.org ; scottnoanh at peoplepc.com ; r.lekx at chello.nl 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 6:50 AM
  Subject: [sdiy] Question for SN76477 / Darkstar owners - the sound? 


  There's been a lot of talk about the SN76477 lately. Too bad they are imposible to find  now. Luckily I bought a chip about 2 years ago. I never got around to building anything with it yet mostly because of this Darkstar article... 

  http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue7/chaos.html

  The sample links are misdirected. To play the sample you have to be creative. Notice the main url and add "issues/". For example... 

  http://aural-innovations.com/issue7/s1.mp3

  Becomes... 

  http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue7/s3.mp3

  I hate to say it but, does the SN76477/Darkstar really sound this bad? Every one seems to rave about it, but these samples would lead on to believe otherwise. I'd hate to spend the time and money building a SN76477 based module and find it unusable. 

  Any opinions would be appreciated. Thanks! 
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