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Does the Speccy have enough outputs on the edge connector to make a simple DAC like the parallel port ones we used to make with a bunch of resistors for the PC?

e.g. the homemade versions of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing



I did have a digital sampler that connected to the back of my Spectrum. I even laboured through writing a digital-delay program in assembler for it.


Nice idea, it has 8 data lines, so 8 bits audio should be possible.




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