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

An electronics-focused TechTuber, Rob Smith, solves a 32-year-old Amiga sound sampler mystery by uncovering errors in a DIY circuit guide from CU Amiga Issue 039. Despite following the instructions meticulously in 1993, the sampler never worked. Smith revisited the project in 2025, identifying a critical typo in the guide regarding a capacitor value. By making the necessary corrections, including adjusting the clock signal capacitor, he successfully got the DIY Amiga sampler to function with classic Amiga sampler-aware tools like Audition 4 and ProTracker. Smith's persistence and expertise in electronics led to the resolution of this long-standing puzzle.