SAmadeus

Utility

Submitted by Dan Dooré on Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 17:59.

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samadeus.mgt

Release Year

1990

Author

František Fuka

Description

Arguably the first Coupé ‘tracker’, a converted (under Spectrum emulation) copy of AY Amadeus to use the SAA1099 soundchip rather than the ZX Spectrum 128k’s AY-3-8910.

Produced the famous tunes on the Sam SCPDSA Demo Disk 1

Instructions

From http://sam.speccy.cz/samadeus.html

SAMADEUS

This program made by the Czech coder and musician František Fuka was the first music editor and sound tracker for the Sam Coupé´s Philips SAA1099 music chip. The predecessor is a ZX Spectrum AY-chip-music routine named Amadeus.

How to run this music editor?

1. boot the disk: press F9 (or num9 in the emulator) and

2. list the directory: type DIR 1

3. load some of the 5 songs: LOAD 2 (or LOAD 3 etc.), next the editor: LOAD 7

4. Spectrum basic wakes up, then press R and RETURN (RUN)

Songs consist of segments. Change the segment with SHIFT+ESC or SHIFT+TAB. Play the segment by pressing the key RETURN. CNTRL plays the whole song.

EDIT (right ALT in emulator) switches to noise, volume, frequency etc. settings and back again