I decided to play with Tandy 3-voice sound on the PicoMEM 2 today. There's a bit of a nuance with using Tandy sound on non Tandys, but this is a problem that has been solved. Let's explore a bit in a 🧵 here!
First of all, the PicoMEM 2 does a FANTASTIC job at emulating Tandy sound. You can go into configuration and set the appropriate port settings, or you can use the "PMINIT" program to initialize whatever you need! I am just going to set the settings via the configuration util.
Next up, we need to get some patched games. Fortunately, the hard work was already done years ago, and @TheOldskoolPC very generously continues to host the patches online! We'll grab a patch for Lemmings and copy it over to our system! Thanks @FreddyVETELE for the tip here!
And as you saw from the intro post, this sounds great! Prior to launch, we get presented with a menu of what to select, and the rest is history as they say.
For Arkanoid II, we have to copy over one file, and from there it just works! And I think it sounds great! Sorry that my game play is terrible 🤣
Anyway, how exciting! I think my next PC for PicoMEM 2 testing is going to be my Tandy 1000 SX, because why not! Thanks for following along!
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