[sdiy] New SID Chips?

Gordonjcp gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Fri Apr 22 22:16:32 CEST 2016


On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 01:03:32PM -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote:
> On 04/22/2016 12:51 PM, Gordonjcp wrote:
> >
> >If you were doing it on an FPGA you'd just implement a digital filter, which would sound better anyway.
> >
> 
> True, but goodness are you missing the point here. :)
> 
> People *love* the imperfections in the SID analog implementation.
> Recreating the digital logic is cake, but duplicating the non-ideal
> behavior of the original lo-tek circuits will probably take the
> majority of the reverse engineering time. Anything less and the
> result will be panned as a failure by the true believers.
> 
> Eric
> 

You mis-spelled "kool-aid drinkers".  I've always thought the SID sounded bloody awful.

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Gordonjcp




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