SwinSID Nano – C64 SID 6581 Replacement

SwinSID is a hardware replacement for the legendary SID sound chip of the Commodore 64 computer. It is designed as a replacement that fits into the SID socket. The SwinSID emulates the sound of the SID chip but is lot more powerful and lets you experience the new dimension of C64 music.

Compatibility Issues:

The SwinSID is not perfect but it comes reasonably close. It has been described as sounding like a chip that stands like a variant of the SID that sounds closer to the version in the Commodore 64C than the original SID.

Both revisions of Commodore’s SID did double duty as the sound chip and as the control chip for input devices that rely on analogue resistors. Such devices include paddles and mice. As such a SwinSID equipped C64 will lose this functionality.