Sega Genesis Amiga Connection

[adolescent]

darksun9210 wrote:
the megadrive/genesis devkit - a500 sidecar expansion rumor is pretty strong, and i'd love to see one. if only for the sheer irony! :lol:

I don't think it exists.  Although, there's no doubt the Amiga was used, along with tools like SNASM and Deluxe Paint, for all kinds of console development.

The real irony is the Atari Lynx Development Kit which required an Amiga (!), not Atari's own ST.

[DamageX]

it used the same FM synth chip that the original Atari ST did.

The Atari ST didn't have an FM synthesizer, it had a YM2413 which is just a 3-channel square wave/noise type deal... (a.k.a. PSG/SSG, same as the AY-8910). The Genesis uses the YM2612, with 6x 4-operator FM channels. Sega's custom chip also includes an SN76489 recycled from the SMS. The Z80 doesn't make any noise itself but most Genesis games use it to run music player routines or push samples out the DAC.

[JLF65]

trip6 wrote:
When I opened up the Genesis about a week ago... I saw that it had a Yamaha Sound Chipset...

Damn! That's an ooooooolllllllllld Genesis. SEGA only used an actual YM2612 in the very first model. All models after that use a SEGA ASIC with an equivalent built in.