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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·
    5 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·
      5 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·
        5 days ago

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

        • dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
          3·
          2 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·
      5 days ago

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