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We've looked before at normal sounds, but lets start to learn how we can convert WAV files so we can play them back on 8 bit machines for Speech and SFX!

Lets take a look!

https://youtu.be/-iKv2DhdVS4 www.chibiakumas.com/z80/platform4.php#LessonP34 The Keyboard and sound of the Lynx will be pretty familiar to regulars of these tutorials! The sound is basically an upgraded spectrum (With Volume levels) and the keyboard is pretty similar to the CPC or Spectrum... Lets ...

https://youtu.be/kaTar_i2s10 www.chibiakumas.com/z80/platform4.php#LessonP33 The Camputers Lynx has a very unusual screen layout, it's screen memory conflicts with the normal memory, the effect of this is we cannot use the stack during the writing procedure when we have the video ram paged in. Lets...

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The CPC Plus is capable of better palettes, but it's prime feature is sixteen 16 color 16x16 sprites... These are separate from screen mode, so are 16 color even in 4 color mode 1...

Lets take a look!

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Lets take a quick look at MSX1 sprites

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SMS /GG sprites are much easier, so we'll take a look at them

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The Gameboy has 'Hardware sprites'... these are drawn by the graphics hardware, so are very fast, but are limited in size, and number.

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It's time to move onto the consoles, lets see how we can detect the platform we're on, and how to use extra rom banking on those systems

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It's time to move onto the consoles, lets see how we can detect the platform we're on, and how to use extra rom banking on those systems

https://youtu.be/1l2hAc285rs www.chibiakumas.com/z80/platform3.php#LessonP28 The Sam Coupe has an incredible spec for a 8-bit system, with a MINIMUM of 256k, and many machines having a whopping 512k... the SAM is a memory monster! Unfortunately.... it doesn't have as flexible memory mapping as the ...