I know it's 2014 and you can get an MP3 player and 40 bazillion terabytes on a microscopic chip. But I want to build a 6502 based retro computer and, in a perfect world, I would order up about 200 SID chips.
Anyway, are there any mass produced audio chips these days that closely resemble the remarkable chiptunes of the 80's?
I've ordered four AY-3-8912's off eBay but I'd like to find something similar but still in production.
Oh, gutting vintage computers is out of the question. I restore them. Not gut them. 😉
EDIT
I wanted to post a followup to those who are curious. Finding old vintage audio chips on eBay isn't too difficult. But, obviously, not for any kind of mass production.
Anyway, I have found an alternative using the Propeller chip from Parallax. Using that microcontroller, you can emulate with high accuracy the SID, AY-3-8910 and SN76489 chips. Each emulated chip resides in one cog (from 8).
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No longer in production due to lack of demand.
Too late
There's the things used in musical greetings cards and things like this - but thats resemble in the way an iPod resembles a Walkman. It fills a vaguely similar niche but uses very different technology.
There's also SwinSID