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2026-04-19 17:57 UTC
@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com @batworx@mastodon.africa Oh man it's trying to do those arps soooo hard except everything is at half speed and not quite in tempo. It's like you went to a friend's house who had a c64, heard the kind of music and composition style people did back in the day at least in Europe, but then your mom says but we have a sid chip at home. This is the SID chip at home.
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@jaybird110127@dragonscave.space 2026-04-19 18:01
@pitermach@dragonscave.space @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com @batworx@mastodon.africa And the funny thing is, the Apple II doesn't have a SID chip or anything like it. Unless you have an expansion card like the Mockingboard for music, all the Apple has internally is a speaker which can be toggled by accessing the memory address $C030. So that's what programs do, rapidly toggle the speaker usually by writing to $C030, it doesn't matter what you write. You can get a square wave by toggling the speaker at a constant rate, or you can get some other squarewave-type noises by toggling at varying rates.