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SOUNDCHIPS EXPLAINED part 2! SID sid: im da best dude 1 (sid fan): obviously the goat dude 2 (soundblaster fan): no ur not, soundblaster is better sid: stfu dude 2 AY-3-8910 oscilloscope with weird wave guy: how tf do u do that waveform when you dont have fm??? ay: haha envelopes go brrr POKEY guy: are you a keyboard controller or a soundchip pokey: yes DUMMY SYSTEM guy: you suck dummy system: i know
SID was the Commodore 64 sound generator chip. While rest of that era personal computers and game console could just do fancy beeps at most, SID had a programmable synthesizer.
the joke was on that “sid vs soundblaster” argument there was on the whole irc channel back when it actually had a lot of people
which transitioned smoothly into the amiga vs pc debate a few years later
how many useless debates on computers have there been???
- sid vs soundblaster
- amiga vs pc
- cisc vs risc
- vim vs emacs
- and probably more but those are all i can think of rn
edit:
- windows vs linux
- linux vs bsd
- android vs iphone
edit 2:
- systemd vs sysvinit
And the printed manual that came with the computer showed you how to program it.
It feels like I’m thirty years too young to get these jokes.
im only 14 tho
just that im a H U G E nerd
SID was a chip with both digital and analog sides to the die and can do a lot of things still, making them sought after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6581
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