sid chip 8580

[Jaakko Lofstrom]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Buchstaller wrote:

> But another problem is that they have "improved" it so that the click when the
> sound is switched on/off is gone. Some programs that had speech output via
> sampled waveforms used this click to produce sound, so they will lack this
> capability with the mewer sound chip. (i did not personally verify this,
> but read
> rumors)

This is true; I had both the plump & slim versions of C64 - the latter
didn't prolerpy reproduce sampled effects. More specifically, the click
was reduced not removed, so the samples played back, but attenuated and
even more bad sounding, ruining the original 'balance´ ;)

The most important aspect of the click was, however, that it's amplitude
was (roughly) proportional to sound volume, so you could even use 8 bit
samples. Wow!

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-Jaakko Löfström