X68000

Mikey was made by Atari and is used inside the Atari Lynx. Its not a dedicated Soundchip but the Main CPU of the System (besides a second one that handles the Graphics) and is based off an 6502.

Technical Specifications

• Channels: 4
• Channel 1-4: Synthesizes either a Squarewave or plays back one of 6185 different Waveforms
• Stereo: Only with the Lynx II
• DAC: 8-bit, one DAC for each channel
• 6-bit Volume (=64 Steps)
• Adjustable Envelope with Attack / Hold / Decay

Joust for the Lynx

Used in

Handhelds

• Atari Lynx
• Atari Lynx II

Special Applications

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Variants

• none, though the Lynx II adds stereo-out.

Emulation

• To my knowledge there is no sound format for the Lynx that allows replaying the songs on your pc.

Music Creation

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