Wow, been a while since I last posted something here…

Anyway, I spent this past weekend setting up a basic expansion port interface for the good old Amstrad CPC. Of course, it's not much use without any expansion devices to attach to it. So, I also created a couple of simple expansion devices to use it with – the Amstrad SSA-1 and DK'Tronics speech synthesisers.

Both devices are based around the SP0256-AL2 speech chip, and thusly, will require a dump of its internal ROM, which should be added to cpc464.zip. It is not required if you do not use either synthesiser, however, the synthesiser devices will load the ROM if the device is being used.

To enable use of a synth, just add -exp ssa1 for the SSA-1, or -exp dkspeech for the DK'Tronics, to the commandline. Then it's just a matter of loading the software that supports the relevant speech synthesiser, as you would on a real CPC. There are, however, some issues with a few pieces of software where they fail to detect the SSA-1 correctly, but I can confirm that Glen Hoddle Soccer, Tubaruba, and Darkwurlde do work in MESS with the SSA-1 enabled.

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