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Originally Posted by Foebane
OK, so my dislike of the AY is down to personal experience, but the point of my thread was: did the Atari engineers just give up on a built-in custom sound chip design in favour of the MIDI ports which technically would offer greater scope than even Paula and other on-board sound chips because of running out of time, or what?
I suppose the question has been answered, a money-saving exercise, which doesn't really surprise me at all.
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I imagine one idea they might have had is that they could include an internal MIDI device as standard in higher-end or later STs and then sell a simple external MIDI device for older/cheaper machines, but never got around to doing this.