ART30088@NUSVM.BITNET (Victor Pang) (12/22/88)
I saw an advertisement recently in START magazine about the above board.
This board is supposed to able to generate true Stereo/3D sound from the
Atari ST computer. I thought of getting one and installed it on my MEGA
ST. Before that, I will like to know if it is really able to generate
true Stereo sound and also feedback from users who have installed the
board.
Regards:
Victor Pang - Electronic Music Laboratory
National University of Singapore
(ART30088@NUSVM.BITNET and ART30088@NUSVM.NUS.AC.SG)russ@percival.UUCP (Russ Schwartz) (12/26/88)
I've installed the Tweety Board on my ST. What it actually does is keep all three sound channels seperate and you get a three jack connector out of your computer. Obviously your stereo is not three channel so they have included a "Y" cable adaptor so you can merge two of the channels together. It comes out sounding pretty good with a speaker on each side of my computer BUT as more games take advantage of digitized sound, this little gadget will become less useful. The reason for that is to make digitized sound to sound better out the ST's sound chip, most of the time they use all three sound channels together additively. This results in stereo "noise" which is worse than listening to the monitor speaker. (I've got a separate audio out jack for just listing to digitized sound) Hope this helps your decision. ..!reed!percival!russ Russell Schwartz ["Where the name falls off before the quality goes in."] Sysop @ IBBS - Fnode #4 - 300-9600 (Hayes) - 503-292-1321 (PCPable) Sysop @ STEP_BBS - Fnode #72 - 300-9600 (Hayes) - 503-626-8953 (PCPable)
WILLIAMS@UCF1VM.BITNET (Erik Williams) (01/27/89)
Victor Pang writes... >I saw an advertisement recently in START magazine about the above board. >This board is supposed to able to generate true Stereo/3D sound from the >Atari ST computer. I thought of getting one and installed it on my MEGA >ST. Before that, I will like to know if it is really able to generate >true Stereo sound and also feedback from users who have installed the >board. >Regards: >Victor Pang - Electronic Music Laboratory National University of Singapore ------------------------------ I have installed a Tweety Board in my Mega 2 and I love the sound that it generates (especially in Zany Golf and Outrun). It is capable of generating true stereo output if you have a three channel input receiver. For those of us with only amps and speakers, two channels are combined into one channel on the amp. The results is the vibrant sound that we all know that the ST is capable of. The actual Tweety Board consists of a small board with a pin adaptor to fit over your Yamaha sound chip, and an external connector with three RCA jacks to your stereo or amp. Installation is simple and the documentation is very good on this. Installation should take no more than half an hour if you are good with electronics. If you are not, then the manual advises you to have a technical person disassemble your ST. Things that the Tweety Board does not do well: it has a problem with digitized voices (i.e. Playit) because the signal is split into three separate signals, so digitized voices usually sound pretty funky. However, turning off your amp essentially removes Tweety from the system, and you can run your favorite digitizations from the monitor sound speaker. Also, my Mega now does not like anything placed on top of it, so I am going to disassemble it again this weekend (when everyone is gone). I highly recommend Tweety Board to anyone who is sick and tired of a great computer's sound capabilities being wasted. Put it in your ST and you will never return to ordinary sound. Erik Williams Electrical Engineering University of Central Florida (WILLIAMS@UCF1VM.bitnet) Orlando, Florida.