Emulating the SID the HARD way.

emulation SID 6581 8580
chipresearch episode 0x08

00:00 Intro
01:04 What's a SID?
01:56 "Fake SIDs" and sidbench
02:46 Reading OSC3/ENV3 registers
04:11 "Old" bank: Monitoring filter capacitor voltages
04:31 "New" bank: gigabytes of DC recordings per chip
06:20 Listening test preliminaries
07:23 Advanced SID Engine issues
08:11 QA Song Choice
10:21 The "Unicorn" R1
10:45 MDFourier C64 edition

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Listening test songs are a mix and match of PAL and NTSC speeds we know.
(our emulation can do both)

A lot of songs chosen for QA were taken from this list here: (sorry I forgot to mention it):
https://kompjut0r.blogspot.com/2015/12/c64-sid-shootout-part-3.html?m=1

Tracks used:
chipsynth C64 - 4Mat.
From the official old-school C64 "chipsynth C64" demo from 4Mat

Channel intro/outro:
Apoplexia - Vega Genesis
From the official chipsynth MD launch album
https://toycompany.bandcamp.com/album/chipsynth-md-songs

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