The audio situation (opens in new tab)

Last weekend, one of my kids wanted to play Lemmings on my Atari STe, and he had fun for about five levels when he called it a day. One of the things he didn’t like was the sound, and I don’t mean that it was just the standard Atari PSG sound, which I would understand. No, the sound was in fact off. When I started the game for him, I turned on the speakers, but we immediately heard a kind of hum, almost as loud as the sound of the game itself, so I disconnected some other cables from the litt...