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Re:8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1 by frownie on Friday June 20, 2014 @06:27AM (#7920162)
In the demoscene, doing the impossible was just regular behaviour :-) Just look at what they get out of a mere C64...
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Re:8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1 by adestefan on Friday June 20, 2014 @08:49AM (#7920437)
The VIC-II and SID chips in the C64 are amazing. They blew away anything that could be found inside an IBM PC.
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Re:8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1 by Intermernet on Friday June 20, 2014 @09:41AM (#7920635)
I'm a softy, but I still think the SID is amazing. The sounds that developers squeezed out of that chip are a testament to true hackery. I have a feeling the tricks developed to stress the SID to it's maximum have been adopted by a lot of serious audio developers in recent years to get higher track count / lower latency / higher bit rate etc. It's like the SID was the home-chemistry set equivalent for many a professional DAW / plugin designer.
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