Amdrum

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Box and Manual for the Amdrum

A drumkit by the British company Cheetah. The drumkit was able to play 8bit sound samples. Quality of the playback was nice, considering the time and price. The samples was read from the suplied tapes. There was serveral tapes with different themes! Along with the Amdrum came a sequencing program. It was possible to copy the samples to disc, but the sequencing program had to be patched!

Amdrum was probably Cheetahs version of the SpecDrum (As revealed on the PCB "AMSTRAD SPECDRUM")

No CPC emulator supports the Amdrum. To hear 'Amdrum' in action the Spectrum emulator Spectaculator emulates the SpecDrum.

No other software than Cheetahs own sequencer is know to use the Amdrum.

Technical Specifications

The PCB(oneside) contains five chips:

74LS30N	Port decoding
74LS32N	Port decoding
SN74LS04N	?
064C0P	Amplifier?
Ferranti ZN428E-8	8bit DAC

IO Ports unknown

Kits

Afro Kit Covertape

• Afro Kit Covertape - Instructions
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  Afro Kit Covertape
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  Afro Kit Instructions
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  Afro Kit Errata

Tapes

Amdrum Tape

• Amdrum Tape
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  Amdrum Tape side A
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  Amdrum Tape side B

Afro Kit Tape

• Afro Kit Tape
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  Afro Kit Tape side A
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  Afro Kit Tape side B

Electro Kit Tape

• Electro Kit Tape
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  Electro Kit Tape side A
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  Electro Kit Tape side B

Latin Kit Tape

• Latin Kit Tape
• 
  Latin Kit Tape side A
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  Latin Kit Tape side B

Pictures

• AMDRUM
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  Component side
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  "AMSTRAD SPECDRUM"
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  Screen shot
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  Screen shot

Manual in PDF

AMDRUM Manual

Weblinks

Site about the SpecDrum

Review of the Spectrum version

Another review

Other playback devices

Music Machine

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