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A fact from Atari AMY appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 April 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Atari showed off its AMY additive synthesis sound chip in a special version of the 65XE computer, but never released it and focused on the Atari ST instead?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/April.

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Acronym?

So, what does AMY stand for?--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 19:30, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Uhhh, good question! I'll ask the developer. Maury Markowitz (talk) 23:02, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believe is stands for Additive Music sYnthesizer. -Tom Zimmerman — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.4.83.52 (talk) 00:37, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Corrections

ATG was an Apple thing. Amy was developed at ASRL (Atari Sunnyvale Research Laboratory).

Amy and Saunders's Rainbow were to be components of the Sierra computer, which was to contain an Intel processor, not dual 68000s. Rainbow was a chipset, not a single chip. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.113.244 (talk) 04:07, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Modern project inspired by the AMY chip

There is a modern project inspired by the AMY chip. There is a pure software emulation with some enhancements to the algorithms (https://github.com/shorepine/amy), a distributed speaker system called Alles (https://github.com/shorepine/alles), and a full-fledged small computer called the Tulip Creative Computer (https://github.com/shorepine/tulipcc). All are quite active open source projects. I think these projects deserve a mention on the AMY page, or perhaps a page of their own. M. Edward (Ed) Borasky aka znmeb (talk) 05:17, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]