AY

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AY is the nickname of the AY-3-8910 programmable sound generator family.

The Amstrad CPC sound processor is more exactly the AY-3-8912.

This chip was very popular and was used in a lot of machines.


MSX, ZX Spectrum, Atari... all used Chips from this family (sometimes the YM variant instead of AY...)

As a result it is still quite popular in the actual Chip Tuning movement as a vintage sound processor.

Many Chip Tuning sites include AY files and scene.

Halas, the ZX Spectrum is more often used as reference. But a huge library is available


Technical references

Datasheet AY-8913


Amstrad Plus specificity

The Amstrad Plus range include DMA sound channels. This offer extra capabilities, and extra bugs too...

some chip tuning sites