Sam Coupé Audio CD with issue 11 of Sam Revival magazine.

[Quazar]

It may be of some interest that issue 11 of the Sam Revival magazine features an audio CD of some music from the Sam Coupé computer.

The Sam Coupé, released in 1989, uses a 6MHz Z80 cpu and a Philips SAA1099 soundchip giving 6 channel FM synthesis with 2 noise channels. Later hardware addons offered digital sound channels - with the ultimate soundcard being the Quazar Surround first released in 1995 - giving multichannel 8 & 16 bit sound in surround. And more recently I have also produced a SID soundchip interface for the Sam Coupé to let it use both the 6581 and 8580 SID chips (one track on the CD is recorded from the SID Interface)

The paper side of this issue is also an audio special to accompany the cover CD, and looks at the sound hardware of the Sam Coupé in more detail.

A few short snippets from a couple of the tracks are online as MP3:

About As SID As It Gets (Download MP3)
(60 second snippet) - A brand new piece of Sam music by David Suzuki-Sanders, using the Sam's SAA1099 soundchip

On Your Own (Download MP3)
(30 second snippet) - A piece of sequenced sampled music and sequenced by David Launden, played back with the Quazar Surround soundcard.

Star Trekkin (Download MP3)
(30 second snippet) - 16 bit music played back through the Quazar Surround soundcard, compressed at a ratio of 8 to 1 using a modified ADPCM compression, and the Sam's 6MHz Z80 is fast enough to decode it in realtime apon playback with 2x oversampling.

More information and ordering details at http://www.samcoupe.com/ .Issue 11 costs - £3.00 (in the UK) or £3.80 (with Airmail postage to EU countries)