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			<description><![CDATA[<p>All,</p><p>The Sam Coupe was one of these lesser known Z80 based computers, being released in 1989 and discontinued in 1992.<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM_Coup%C3%A9">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM_Coup%C3%A9</a></p><p>Its AY port is 511 &amp; 255, whilst its beeper port is identical to the ZX Speccy: bit 4 on port #FE.<br />Asm orgin for the Coupe is at #8000</p><p>Loading the binary is the difficult part when you don&#039;t know how to.<br />Requires to load the binary into a disk image, then load the disk image into an emulator , or using another tool to write the disk image to a real Coupe 800kb floppy drive.</p><p>Timing is right off, as this computer runs the Z80 at 6meg. Slowing things down to a reasonable listenable tempo, still makes all tunes sound like that they have been put through a Phaser. Twice.</p><p>At the BASIC prompt , either in an emulator (Sim Coupe) or, real hardware with disk image access:</p><p>LOAD &quot;file&quot; CODE 32768</p><br /><br /><p>Have converted a bunch of various players over and experimented with speed / tempo. But none are really worthwhile in showing here.&nbsp; Indeed the Sam Coupe will play them all as a cool proof-of-concept, but requires far more expert-level work to making them sound nice.</p><p>I probably won&#039;t contiue fiddling with this computer, as I know that its far beyond my knowledge to get the tunes sounding nice - time to move on to another, slower, 8 bitter.</p>]]></description>
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