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Playing ATARI music on Amiga for free!

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

A technical retro-computing blog post about emulating the Atari YM2149 sound chip on the Amiga's PAULA to achieve near-zero CPU usage. It covers the hardware differences, the MADMAX-style envelope technique, COPPER-based pre-generated lists, and a step-by-step approach that offloads audio processing from the 68000 while driving a sin-dots demo.

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