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 | | Although the chip was beginning to show its age in 1985, the relatively fast CPU on the Atari pushes it beyond its previous capabilities, enabling the machine to play back digitised samples and make very complicated sound effects. |
 | | The standard 8910/8912 features are still there, of course: 3 channels of sound (output separately and mixed off-chip — the Atari is Mono, by the way), 1 channel of noise that may be mixed with any of the three other channels, 16 volume levels and 9 octaves of tones. |
 | | The format and filesystem of the floppies is 12-bit FAT, allowing the Atari and PC to read each other's floppies easily. |
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