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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: AMY Music Synthesizer Chip
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Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 12:27:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 14 12:27:05 1985
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> I originally bought the c64 based on it's sound capabilities and
> the promise of a multi SID keyboard( they never produced the
> keyboard though ). This AMY chip though looks like it is 10 times
> better than the SID.

Don't feel disappointed.  If you had waited to get an Atari system with
an AMY chip, one of two things would probably happen:
  a)  it may never materialize at all (like that multi SID keyboard),
      and you would have waited for nothing; or
  b)  by the time it materializes, some other company will already be
      touting the new super-duper sound chip that they're working on
      that's 10 times better than AMY, so you'd end up waiting for that.

"State-of-the-art" is a fleeting condition.  If you feel that you must
always have state-of-the-art equipment, you must be prepared to scrap
all of it each year as the state-of-the-art marches on.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug