Yamaha Y8950

Y8950

The Yamaha Y8950 is a sound chip, produced in 1984. Essentially a Yamaha YM3526 with an ADPCM encoder/decoder added on, it is also known as MSX-Audio as it was designed for inclusion in an expansion cartridge for the MSX personal computer.

This chip was introduced in three cartridge models:

Features

Software Support

The Y-8950 is supported by almost all software which contains music composed in SoundTracker, (Moonblaster, Oracle, Super Music Editor or Magic Music Module Combi, etc.). All these editors support the ADPCM sample unit. Other software which makes use of the ADPCM sampler. such as Trax Player by NOP (a program to play songs (samples) directly from disk, while loading). All software, that supports FM-PAC also supports MSX Audio

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