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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Mark Tyson

DIY Amiga sound sampler circuit mystery solved 32 years later — Magazine instructions had key component spec typos

CU Amiga Issue 039 errors.

A three-decade-old “Amiga mystery” has been solved by an intrepid electronics-focused TechTuber. Rob Smith originally tried to make a DIY sampler for his Amiga computer back in 1993. Despite his best efforts — carefully following a magazine-printed guide and reaching out to geeks at his local Maplin (Radio Shack) — he could never get the finished sampler to work. Now, 32 years later, with extensive experience on his side, he has returned to the project. Spoiler alert: he eventually found and quashed the mistakes in the CU Amiga Issue 039 step-by-step guide.

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