dirkwhoffmann
commented
6 months ago The MameSID branch contains an experimental version of VirtualC64 with the MAME SID backend included:
The good:
- Code integration was not that difficult as there were little dependecies to the rest of the MAME code.
The bad:
- I am pretty disappointed about the audio quality of the MAME implementation. Compared to reSID, it appears to be much inferior. I didn't compare it to the real MAME app, so there is still a slight chance that something is misconfigured.
Assuming there is no configuration error, I don't think merging the code back to the main branch makes sense. It would just bloat the app without adding any substantial improvement.
Haroldo64
Currently, VirtualC64 offers reSID and FastSID as audio backends, with the latter not at all being competitive in terms of quality.
As an experimental project, it should be tried to add MAME's SID implementation. The implementation is licensed under the BSD clause, except for two data tables taken from reSID. If the new backend proves to be suitable enough (without the data tables, which only cover some unusual scenarios where multiple waveforms are activated simultaneously), reSID could be removed. This is a requisite to change the license of VirtualC64 from GPL to BSD, which I want to do eventually.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/master/src/devices/sound