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soundchips be like [PART 2] (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

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