Yeah, not much good at analog design, were they? The sound circuitry on the Amiga wasn't much better. There were a number of hacks on Aminet to make the sound better.TmEE co.(TM) wrote:Well, I wasn't born "back these days"... MD was pretty expensive thing, and they cut costs from everywhere (and the sound part makes me REALLY angry !!! I'd kill that guy who designed the mixing circuits in MD !!!) And in my mind, putting a pair quad flip-flops into the chipset and few more comparators wouldn't have made things more expensive than they already were...
A FIFO is more than a few flipflops and comparators, but it doesn't matter. In the end, they took the simple route of just stopping the Z80, and that's what we now have to deal with.