Just something I have alsways been curious about.
I have played a few games that had music that wouldn't have gone amiss on SID. Is the SID burried in Paula somewhere or is it Paula emulating the sound of the SID.
Might sound daft but I have wondered about this before but never asked.
PAULA is very simple. its just 4 8bit DMA sound channels, 2 per output channel with a 6bit volume level as i recall.
SID is a complex analog envelope waveform generator.
what you are probably hearing is a SID sound sampled and replayed, because there is nothing like the SID in Paula. Much like the PAULA is able to talk with the "say" app, yet it has no physical voicebox.
