Those backgrounds look so good. I wonder if they'll be able to do anything with the iconic music.

There are already remakes of MI tunes for C64:

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/DEMOS/S-Z/Secret_of_Monk...

With a SID? No problem. I think the title track could be arranged very easily for three voices.

You can do amazing things with only a single SID channel. One of the most impressive examples is the in-game music of Hawkeye [1] which allows to use the remaining two channels for sound effects.

[1] https://youtu.be/es-rWnVSJ1c

That was incredible.

That was made by Jeroen Tel, one of the wizards of the C64 music scene. See this for another example of a technical feat with the SID chip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYnwR16NbPE

Even the PC speaker version is pretty good, so I would absolutely second this.

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