MOS 6581 aka SID chip

Very nice user

Do you do embedded/firmware work for a living?

It's more of a hobby, but I occasionally do IoT-related projects for work that often involve the same kind of microcontrollers. Most of what I know came from building those music players using old sound chips in the videos posted above.

Might want to heat sink the VIC-II and SID in any case because they get toasty.

I prefer the PC Engine audio output.

Almost everything post NES is preferable to SID. I reckon this thread is 10% euros with nostalgia goggles and 90% hipster faggots that need to catch the bug.

>comparing chips designed 8+ years after the SID
Is like complaining that a 1957 Chevy did not have Bluetooth.

I never imagined in my wildest dreams, when fooling around with this chip in machine code, with a DIY mechanical reverb, while lusting after my friend's Korg Poly 800, that it would be a thing in 2018. I hated how much gate thump it has with a short attack, but what do I know? Surprising to learn that some of the chips on the C64 mobo, including this one, can be killed with careless handling, since I abused it in ways not even mentioned here. Sometimes wish I hadn't tossed it with all the associated gear during a 2012 de-clutter binge of facing facts of mortality, but hipster connoisseurship of all things retro is in any case a form of denial I could never put into practice. Kept all the cassettes though, and shall go to my grave without a gap in the archives.

One thing the C128's BASIC still doesn't have is a way of creating custom character graphics (all the graphics statements deal with bitmap mode). Thus you will still have to create character sets the old-fashioned way via POKE statements.

>Surprising to learn that some of the chips on the C64 mobo, including this one, can be killed with careless handling
They can, and in the case of the Plus/4's TED chip, the thing will gladly commit suicide all by itself with no assistant required.

I compared one two years after SID and was told it sounded too good. You hipsters need to make up your mind.