even the current pcs have got soundchips but its either built into the motherboard or somewhere in your CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY X-FI
it is a little meaningless to talk about the chip when it is just streaming software synthesised+mixed samples (hello AHX also)... as meaningless as categorising chiptunes by the processor or the headphones the artist used or the internal cabling of his PC
sound-chip focus is a little silly in general when the whole machine is contributing to the thing... seems better to distinguish between the guy with the 1541 and a tracker in 320x240 resolution (or whatever!) and the guy using FL studio with a hardsid/midiboxsid than between the guy with FL studio and the hardsid and the guy with FL studio and the sid vst (possibly even the same one you control the hardsid with) - if you're going to draw a line anywhere
/me waits for midibox paula
fileformats also. why are there no new klystrack chiptuners?? why are there no new DELTA MUSIC 2 chiptuners? dunno really. i guess lsdj is just more fun
sorry to offtopic a little.