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ortek_service · 26th Apr 2021, 8:20 pm

You can buy SID replacement modules for around £10 off the bay, to replace the original 6581 (/ 6551?) that may now be often failing.
And these are probably microcontroller based and probably allow a later version to be used. so could probably swap out the SID chip, as were normally socketed.

26th Apr 2021, 8:20 pm	#2
ortek_service Octode Join Date: May 2018 Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire, UK. Posts: 1,440	Re: Commodore 64 SID chip type? You can buy SID replacement modules for around £10 off the bay, to replace the original 6581 (/ 6551?) that may now be often failing. And these are probably microcontroller based and probably allow a later version to be used. so could probably swap out the SID chip, as were normally socketed.