This is a video to demonstrate the new netlist-based audio implementation in MAME for the audio board used by Exidy's "Star Fire" arcade machine, circa 1980. Star Fire has the same CPU and video hardware as Fire One, with the latter being an evolution of the former in terms of inputs and audio board.
Prior to the advent of commodity sound-generator chips in the early 80's, arcade machines tended to rely on bespoke collections of analog parts, arranged to generate sound effects when triggered by the main CPU (if indeed the arcade machine had one). Thanks to years of effort by MAME contributor "couriersud", MAME can now simulate these circuits at a component level in order to generate sound effects in real-time or almost real-time. It's broadly similar in principle to circuit simulators such as SPICE and its derivatives, but can be made orders of magnitude faster.
At present, Mog's Emulation Station has 490 views spread across 1 video for Star Fire, with his channel publishing less than an hour of Star Fire content. This makes up less than 0.47% of the total overall content on Mog's Emulation Station's YouTube channel.
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