Emulation: SID

I received a request to emulate the SID chip within Vide. While at first it sounds "strange" to emulate the Commodore C64 soundchip - the idea behind it is a special cartridge design with a SID chip on it.

The prototype of the card already exists and seems to work quite well. The chips registers are located at "forbidden" vectrex locations (addresses $8000 - $8020). Actually the emulation of that could be implemented in a couple of hours - since there are quite a few open source java C64 emulators available. The used SID emulation is a java version of "reSid" and works (for a few hours of work) remarkably well.

Also the SID registers are viewable using the dissi→carti window.

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