Willy

Willy - MIDI and OPL3 Soundcard adapter for CPC

Demonstrations of Willy

• Willy OPL3 on a real CPC demoed by Prodatron
• Willy MIDI and Willy OPL3 emulated on ACE demoed by Offset
• Willy OPL3 emulated on ACE-DL demoed by Roudoudou

Weblink

https://pulkomandy.github.io/shinra.github.io/willy.html

Cost

The cost for a Willy soundcard adapter is 10€. This does not include any soundcard, you have to buy those separately.

Technical information

2 ports are used to control the MIDI soundcard: &FEAC for data, and &FEAD for control and status.

3 ports are used to control the OPL3 soundcard: &FEBC and &FEBE are register select ports, and &FEBD is the data port.

Datasheets

• Dream SAM2695 Datasheet for the S2P soundcard aka General MIDI Wavetable Synth
• Yamaha OPL3 Datasheet for the OPL3LPT soundcard aka Sound Blaster 16
• Yamaha OPL2 Datasheet for the OPL2LPT soundcard aka AdLib
• Philips SAA1099 Datasheet for the CMSLPT soundcard aka Game Blaster
• Texas instruments SN76489 Datasheet for the TNDLPT soundcard aka Tandy Sound