SIDPlayerDS

[wraggster]

Our very own GPF has posted his entry into the Neoflash Comp, heres the details:

This is a port of SIDPlayer, by Christian Bauer, with modifications for the nds by Troy Davis(GPF). . The home page of the NDS port is http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk

What is SIDPlayer?
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SIDPlayer is a replayer program for C64 music ("SID tunes"), like PlaySID on the Amiga or SIDPLAY for Unix. You can think of it as being a stripped-down
C64 emulator that only emulates the CPU and the sound chip of the C64. SIDPlayer can replay SID tunes in the "PSID" file format, but it cannot run
any C64 programs.

Why would I want to listen to C64 music?
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The C64 had the most advanced sound capabilities of all home computers in the early 80's. While other computers of that time were only able to produce
beeps, the C64 had a complete 3-voice analog synthesizer on its MOS 6581 sound chip (called "SID" - "Sound Interface Device"). Even some more modern computers (as the Atari ST or the first Macs) had worse sound.

The SID chip features three oscillators with selectable waveform, ADSR envelope generators, programmable resonance filters and special effects like ring modulation. With the aid of the CPU, it can also replay 4-bit sampled sounds. SIDPlayer emulates all features of the SID chip, including the
filters.

There were (and are still) many composers programming excellent music for the C64 and thousands of tunes have been converted for use with SID tune replayers on nearly every existing computer platform. One big advantage of SID tunes is that they take very little hard disk space: most are only 4-8K in size.

Supported file formats
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The only SID tune file format supported by SIDPlayer is single-file PSID files (these have the signature "PSID" in the first 4 bytes). Most SID music
available on the Internet is in this format, directory browser requires they have the extension .sid or .SID

Where do I get PSID files
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The two largest collections of SID tunes are the "High Voltage" SID Collection (http://hvsc.c64.org) and the "NemeSIDs" archive(http://cvsup.de.openbsd.org/pub/hist...nemesids.lha/). These have been used for testing during the development of SIDPlayer and they should all work.

Nineteen demonstration SID tunes are included with SIDPlayer in the "sid" directory.

thanks and enjoy,
Troy Davis(GPF)
http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk

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[diabolus]

Would be AWESOME!!, but sound is bit distorted, gets some glitches, and squeeks.

I'm using Supercard SD. And tunes from britelite...

Using it anyways=)

[GPF]

thanks, yeah some SID tunes sound better than others.

thanks for the feedback.
Troy(GPF)
http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk

[GPF]

The poll is now up for the neoflash contest , if you wish to vote for my SIDPlayer.

http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index....ic,3047.0.html

You must be registered and logged in for the vote to count.

Thanks for the support,
Troy(GPF)
http://gpf.dcemu.co.uk

[mgarrine]

doesn't work on sc sd....
(tired renaming the gba and patching with a loader too..)

only apperas the lowers screen pic...




edit::

frezees if /sid folder has too many files inside.

the reproduction is fine.but the volume is TOO LOW...

[trezzer]

GPF if you keep this up I'm gonna do unspeakable things to your leg. Think dogs here. ^_^

[subfreak]

Gets my vote.

There is a GBA version around with none of the problems already mentioned above but has only a few inbuilt tunes, so...

Please keep developing this as my ears keep threatening me with a screwdriver to nag you to do so.

[BokanoiD]

Works ok on my M3/miniSD.

Filters seem to be emulated quite ok (are you using Sidplay2 libs?), but the sound quality is unfortunately quite bad; it's all crackly and poppy
I hope this could be improved somewhat

100 points fo the effort though

[warci]

man, i hope you get the crackling noise out of this. Bought me a 4 GB CF card, so this and moonshell (for the .mods) is 1000 times better than any ipod/mp3thingie whatever.

[darry]

Thx A lot , like to hear old C64 tune on my DS