Background
At the time of the Commodore 64's release in 1982, the SID chip offered sound capabilities far more advanced than those of other home computers or video game systems, and the music composed on it soon proved to be extremely popular among users, especially in Europe. The chip has a highly distinctive sound, and the relatively complex music it could produce was an important factor in the creation of the demoscene.
However, much of the music was effectively made unavailable as a new generation of computers became more and more prevalent by the late 1980s. Far more powerful than the Commodore 64 and its kind (but also too slow to properly emulate the old C64 yet), the new machines were also incompatible with them, and much of the data on the older computers was rendered inaccessible and largely forgotten by the general public. Even those who were interested in the old SID music were forced to ignore it simply because they could not easily access it.
Read more about this topic: The High Voltage SID Collection
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