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Chiptune: Encyclopedia Ii - Chiptune - Technology
Historically, the "chips" used were sound chips like the analog-digital hybrid Atari POKEY on the Atari 400/800, the MOS Technology SID o...
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Mos Technology Sid: Encyclopedia Ii - Mos Technology Sid - Technical Details
The SID is a mixed-mode integrated circuit, featuring both digital and analog circuitry. All control ports are digital, but the output po...
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Mos Technology Sid: Encyclopedia Ii - Mos Technology Sid - Game Audio
The Commodore 64 had slow tape and disk drive protocols, taking minutes to load its 64K into RAM. As a result, while the cassette tape or...
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Mos Technology Sid: Encyclopedia Ii - Mos Technology Sid - Design Process
The SID was devised by engineer Robert Yannes, who later founded the Ensoniq digital synthesizer company. Yannes headed a team that inclu...
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Chiptune: Encyclopedia Ii - Chiptune - Today
Modern computers can play a variety of chiptune formats through the use of emulators and platform-specific plugins for media players.
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Chiptune: Encyclopedia Ii - Chiptune - Style
Generally chip tunes consist of basic waveforms, such as sine waves, square waves and sawtooth or triangle waves, and basic percussion, o...
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