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Creating an FPGA SID chiptune player … sort of

A while back, I accidentally came across a (beautiful!) guitar rendition of a C64’s Last Ninja game music, and boy, did that bring back childhood memories. The MOS6581 – SID was always my favourite sound chip of that generation, and I’ve wanted to build something around it for a long time. Luckily, I had some spare time, so I finally started a project. The plan was simple: get a SID playing on an FPGA over…