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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

  • uservoid1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      12·
      12 days ago

      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

      • AVincentInSpaceEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        which transitioned smoothly into the amiga vs pc debate a few years later

        • dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
          3·
          9 days ago

          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
    • aard@kyu.de
      6·
      12 days ago

      And the printed manual that came with the computer showed you how to program it.