Turbo Outrun Intro Music

Grande gioco, ero pproprio piccolo, avrò avuto 7-8 anni, ma me lo ricordo bene. Capolavoro la musica dei Maniacs of noise, grandi!!!

Hold on... I thought Dave Lowe did the music for this?

Nope. You're probably thinking of Powerdift. Turbo Outrun was definitely MoN.

From a hardcore retro fan - Let me congratulate you, this sounds bloody fantastic!!!

Although I never played this game, this track is enough reason to go get the game :D

Thank you all for the very kind compliments! :-)

Yeah the later models i noticed myself the sounds didnt sound nowhere as near as good as the older revisions! Anyone confirm why this was?

There were two major revisions of the SID chip, the 6581 and the 8580. The 6581 was very far in several respects from the original spec, and had a few design bugs. Musicians exploited these bugs to do, among other things, digital samples, and when they were fixed in the 8580 that technique became inaudible.

Because of this situation where the "proper" spec isn't what composers used, 6581s are preferred among most C64 users.

I've seen a SID sound card you can buy for IBM PCs. Which of these is used in that card?

There are several of those cards, but the most popular is hardSID and it comes in kit and premade forms, and it supports both versions of SID, and also multiple SIDs on the same card. So you can use both versions at once, stereo mode, etc.

Though in most recent C64 productions most sceners tend to go for the 8580, with less pops and clicks from the analogue filters in the SID and a generally cleaner sound. Or maybe there are just more of them around these days :) Either way, this track still owns hard on my real 6581 equipped C64