I’m a geek, you’re a geek, we’re all geeks
and geeks enjoy their old games and computers on modern equipment.
In the eighties, most television sets were mono. So gaming aparitus and computers of the time were also mono. But modern televisions are at least stereo, and often cinema-style ambiophonic…
The commodore 64 uses what was revolutionary at the time, the “Sound Interface Device” – SID chip, for short.
The SID chip is capable to play 3 different voices simultaneously, and add filtering to the audio output, which makes for a remarquable audio quality, much more advanced than most of what was avaiable at the time.
Only issue (for modern times) is that it has only one channel. Mono. non-stereo. Being that the audio quality is rather advanced, audio snippets have been extracted from games for years in “SID files” and enjoyed by geeks – in mono.
In addition to outputting audio from the computer, the SID chip’s analog inputs are used to control paddle inputs from the game port, which is used for some game or as a mouse pointing device.
Is there a way to get the Commodore 64 to output in stereo?
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