C64 Music (Sid!)

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:01 am

classic ,so say i,and josh

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:01 am

Weyland: I often find myself listening to that collection whilst the afternoons are lazy at the office.

SiDplay - I think it is, is a nice compact little player for them too.

Easy: You need to have been around in the 80s to fully understand / enjoy this thread (KYR moment coming!) not being patriotic, of course...

Might try my hand at a few remixes, it's been a couple of years since I've had my synth rack out (oo-er!).

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:10 am

@Matt: I'm waiting for iPod to support .SIDs - I can't be arsed converting them all to MP3s.

@Lugsy: Yes, but I was a few years too late for the C64, I started on the Amiga.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:30 am

probably not you ,met a guy called weyland once who was writing a program for a company i used to work for back in the 80's ,in ipswich?

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:36 am

I'm surprised no one has come up with a 'tweak' that would allow .sid support yet? I suppose the current difficulty is that .sid format is not truthfully a sound file, more the instructions of which sound to play / filter setting to set / wave type, etc.

Still, could be done.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:29 pm

@Lugsy: Nope, not me. "Weyland" is just a 'net name (from the company in the Aliens films).

@Matt: Yeah. I don't know if iPods use hardware or software to play files (my guess would be software), but if it is software, it should just be a matter of supporting another format. All the iPod really cares about is ending up with a buffer full of uncompressed data to play.

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:46 pm

o.k weyland,rest easy with the knowledge that i no longer think you are a 6 foot 5 gangly lad with bottle glasses , buck teeth and a silly perm,with the most annoying "say it not spray it" habit

gambogaz1 · Post by **gambogaz1** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:02 pm

Some of the most basic but addictive games are from that era. C64 was far superior to my Amstrad CPC464 but my parents where from the (Computers knacker the TV's) Brigade so I got the amstrad with it's own green screen monitor

I wasted half my boyhood on the Dizzy series.
Anyone remeber Bruce Lee?? with the little fat green man as a 2 player mode. Class

trayhop123 · Post by **trayhop123** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:22 pm

not forgeting the little green mans ninja sidekick ,
what was stupid though , was that you could simply lay down to avoid all blows, lol :P , top game though

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:21 am

As a bit of an aside, does anyone think that the Olympic music (particularly that used on 5Live) sounds like it was put together using a SidStation (a hardware Sid Synth) or similar? It's got that 'twang' to it...