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Re: Question about Commodore64 and Apple II



de Selby <remove-this-lotek64-and-this@aon.at> writes:

>>Apple II that can produce better sounds. Then again, Apple IIGS had a
>>dedicated built-in sound chip that is vastly superior to even Amiga!

>Technically yes, but it had a crap mono output and while there were 
>hundreds of thousands of cool tunes made on the Amiga there never was 
>anything like the MOD scene for GS users.

The music scene was very lacking, but the gs still has a very capable sound
architecture. It was also designed by Bob Yannes, IIRC (he did the SID
originally).

And even though the C64 does lack slots, stereo SIDs were a very popular
cartridge option. An internal modification to do the same is also easily
accomplished. This gives six voices over both left/right channels.

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