what was it exactly that led to so much good and _long_ music being composed for commodore 64 games?

@Dex It's far from the only system with a dedicated audio chip, though.

@Felthry true, but it was one of the first chips of its type and most of the other computers of the era couldn't match it

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@Dex I have to wonder why, then, games on e.g. the SNES or Sega Genesis didn't get similarly complex soundtracks.

@Felthry Time restrictions, composers being able to easily release stuff for the C64 by themselves rather than being reliant on publishers/Sega/Nintendo, graphics taking up much more of the ROM space?

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