[Coco] more 1 bit madness

[Steve]

May folks out there may not know that a large number of CoCo games did 
support the speech sound pak for better music and sound fx.  It also has 
the advantage of speeding up the game a bit too.

Steve

On 1/20/2014 10:24 PM, Nick Marentes wrote:
> Steve <6809er at ...> writes:
>
>> Tandy did put a 3-voice sound chip in CoCo,  the never released Deluxe
>> Color Computer that would sold for twice the price of the CoCo 2.
>>
>> But that's the problem.  Adding stuff like that would add to the cost of
>> the computer.  The only reason we got the CoCo 3 was its build cost
>> lower that the CoCo 2.
>
> This is definetely the case.
>
> What may have also swayed them away from providing sound is that Tandy sold
> a sound and speech cartridge. They probably thought "There's your sound
> chip!" and "we can profit by selling that as an add-on expansion" (along
> with a multi-pak!).
>
> With Tandy it was always about money. Keep costs down and profits up.
>
> Nick
>
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