27 Dec
2006
27 Dec
'06
12:38 p.m.
And thusly were the wise words spake by William Donzelli
SIDs *have* to be played on the real thing... Emulation of the SID
is still not there yet.
As for *what* SIDs to play, SLAYradio just did a SID-only show last
week of some really great stuff from HVSC and they also posted
their play list. :)
IIRC, there is also a music program for the PET that allows you play
music with the help of an on screen keyboard and also record. But I
can't remember the name at the moment...
Cheers,
Bryan
BTW, I live in S. New Jersey and have PETs, Commodores and Amigas, plus
a few other vintage computers...
http://www.hvsc.c64.org/ has an easily accessed
collection of almost
every C64 tune ever written, ripped into a convenient .sid format.
You can then play those using a SID emulator that just emulates the
SID, rather than a whole C64. For the mac, there is a neat little app
called Sidplay that is nice to use. At least this way you can easily
preview the tunes before getting a real C64.
I would be happy to leave most of the C64 music selection to the guy
that demos the machine. I think I still have a C64 emulator on this
machine, when I wanted to play Castles of Dr. Creep.
Amiga 500s should be cheap and easy to get a hold
of - and have a
fairly recognizable lo-fi sound (8bit resolution and variable sampling
freq) C64s are also like sand on the beach...
Yes, and I hope that someone (MARCH?) would want to show off a bit.
On-Air praise and kudos to those that do!