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The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker
Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware Even for 1982, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum had poor sound: a piezoelectric speaker that could beep.
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Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware Even for 1982, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum had poor sound: a piezoelectric speaker that could beep. But you can do a lot with a single bit if you turn it on and off really fast.
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