Fabricating a custom chip costs several million dollars, which is kind of a non-starter for such a niche product.
Is it theoretically possible? Maybe, there are high-res die photographs used for reverse engineering and improving simulator accuracy. But I doubt this is accurate enough to fab an exact replica.
Maybe not, but there are clones of every single chip in a C64 available for sale now. Getting a perfect replacement is tricky because the originals were far from perfect, the sound you got out would vary between batches and many of the older chips have partially degraded in different ways.
I thought all these were all simulations and not replicas of silicon. I'm talking about something that keeps all the interference flaws and weirdness of the analog synth intact, and every chip being just a little bit unique, like the original.
pverheggen|4 months ago
Is it theoretically possible? Maybe, there are high-res die photographs used for reverse engineering and improving simulator accuracy. But I doubt this is accurate enough to fab an exact replica.
http://visual6502.org/images/pages/MOS_6581_SID_die_shots.ht...
jandrese|4 months ago
https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SID_replacement
guerrilla|4 months ago
_spduchamp|4 months ago