The BBC Micro's SN76489 sound chip (which was also used in the Sega Master System) stands up very well against the SID chip.
Posts by Stoke the atom furnaces
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UK's National Museum of Computing asks tunesmiths to recreate bleeps, bloops, and parps of retro game music
IBM ordered to pay £22k to whistleblower and told by judges: Teach your managers what discrimination means
Y2K quick-fix crick? 1920s come roaring back after mystery blip at UK's vehicle licensing agency
Take my bits awaaaay: DARPA wants to develop AI fighter program to augment human pilots
Which scientist should be on the new £50 note? El Reg weighs in – and you should vote, too
Roughly 30 years after its birth at UK's Acorn Computers, RISC OS 5 is going open source
Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms
Hello 'WOS': Windows on Arm now has a price
Tesla undecimates its workforce but Elon insists everything's absolutely fine
RIP: Sinclair ZX Spectrum designer Rick Dickinson reaches STOP
Happy 100th birthday to the Royal Air Force
Re: Britain had an empire before the RAF.
"Are you trying to start a Navy/Airforce flame war?"
Remember that the RAF has not shot down a fixed wing aircraft since the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
All these MiG15, A4s and Mirages downed during the Korean and Falklands wars were shot down by Fleet Air Arm.
Europe dumps 300,000 UK-owned .EU domains into the Brexit bin
Microsoft says 'majority' of Windows 10 use will be 'streamlined S mode'
Possible cut to British F-35 order considered before Parliament
London mayor: Self-driving cars? Not without jacked-up taxes, you don't!
New UK aircraft carrier to be commissioned on Pearl Harbor anniversary
ARM chip OG Steve Furber: Turing missed the mark on human intelligence
New Amiga to go on sale in late 2017
HMS Queen Lizzie impugned by cheeky Scot's drone landing
NASA short-lists six candidates for future missions
Slower US F-35A purchases piles $27bn onto total fighter jet bill
Vegemite tries to hijack Qantas name-our-planes competition
Blighty's buying another 17 F-35s, confirms the American government
Microsoft to spooks: WannaCrypt was inevitable, quit hoarding
Do we need Windows patch legislation?
Competition sparks innovation
It is a failure of both purchase policy and competition regulation by governments that the IT industry is lumbered with a single near-monopoly supplier of PC OS software.
Until governments start activity promoting alternatives to Windows then cyber-attacks will remain commonplace.
Amazon announces new Echo just as Microsoft's first Cortana-powered clone breaks cover
Microsoft sparks new war with Google with, er, $999+ lappies for kids
Another ZX Spectrum modern reboot crowdfunder pops up
HPC kids battle each other... oh, and tussle with the world's fastest supercomputer
Would you believe it? The Museum of Failure contains quite a few pieces of technology
Super Cali goes ballistic, Uber drivers are stocious (allegedly!)
Back to the future: Honda's new electric car can go an incredible 80 miles!
Natural Gas Vehicles
I wish the government / industry would pay more attention to natural gas powered vehicles.
NGVs have lower emissions that gasoline and diesel and, unlike hydrogen, there is an extensive natural gas pipe network already in place.
Tax dollars should be pushing NGVs, not battery powered electrics.
Electric heater
Up here in New England (unlike old England) we have proper winters. I regularly drive to work when the outside air temperature is below -10C or -15C and I have driven to work in -25C weather.
Gasoline engines produce lots of lovely waste heat, but what I need to know before buying an electric car is the range of a Tesla in a traffic jam with the electric heater on full blast.