The Sultans of SID: #1, Martin Galway

East of the M60’s 2016 Advent Calendar celebrates the legends behind the SID chip

There are few sound chips that have had as good a following as the Commodore 64’s SID chip. Otherwise referred to 6581 (or 8581 on the later C64C and C64GS machines) in numerical form, it is the soundtrack of many a misspent 1980s and 1990s youth.