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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 19:27:06 JST Jacek Wesołowski

   As someone who's been around since the times of SID and POKEY, I'm slightly annoyed by YouTube videos that offer "4-bit", "8-bit", "16-bit" etc. versions of the same tune, because they have so little to do with how these old chips actually sounded, and on top of that it never really was about the bit count.

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 19:42:06 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     Basically if you really want to insist on doing this, it could go like this:
     - "8-bit" - e.g. SID, POKEY - 3-4 channels, mono, basic waveforms
     - "16-bit" - e.g. SoundBlaster - preset sounds + MIDI, 6-22kHz wave samples; really lean on MIDI to nail down the 90s cheese!
     - "32-bit" - .wav, .mp3, .ogg - up to, say, 128kbps bitrate (you could do more, but a lot of the time people didn't, in order to save storage space)
     - "64-bit" - no bitrate limits so basically whatever you want