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submitted 7 months 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] 16 points 7 months ago

It feels like I’m thirty years too young to get these jokes.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

im only 14 tho

just that im a H U G E nerd

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

And with that you may be the youngest user here, beating an anonymous user in c/[email protected] by one year.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

thats unfair, im also 15.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

SID was a chip with both digital and analog sides to the die and can do a lot of things still, making them sought after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6581

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months 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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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 7 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

IRQ 7 am I right guys!

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