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Article #571Re: AMY Music Synthesizer Chip
From: Doug Pardee
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1985 17:27
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 1985 17:27
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> I originally bought the c64 based on it's sound capabilities and
> the promise of a multi SID keyboard( they never produced the
> keyboard though ). This AMY chip though looks like it is 10 times
> better than the SID.
Don't feel disappointed. If you had waited to get an Atari system with
an AMY chip, one of two things would probably happen:
a) it may never materialize at all (like that multi SID keyboard),
and you would have waited for nothing; or
b) by the time it materializes, some other company will already be
touting the new super-duper sound chip that they're working on
that's 10 times better than AMY, so you'd end up waiting for that.
"State-of-the-art" is a fleeting condition. If you feel that you must
always have state-of-the-art equipment, you must be prepared to scrap
all of it each year as the state-of-the-art marches on.
--
Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug
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