Category: C64

  • iPod Touch & TouchOSC Controlling a C64

    Little-scale writes:

    I made a quick video of using an iPod Touch and TouchOSC to control a Commodore 64 in real time.

    Using the default ‘Keys’ patch for TouchOSC, a number of parameters of the Commodore 64s sound chip, the SID, can be controlled:

    • Note on and off commands for two octaves’ worth of piano keys

    • Attack

    • Decay

    • Release

    • Filter frequency

    • Filter resonance

    • Enable / disable triangle waveform

    • Enable / disable sawtooth waveform

    • Enable / disable pulse waveform

    • Pulse wave duty cycle

    via little-scale: iPod Touch & TouchOSC Controlling a C64.

  • The HVSC update #51

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    Sure we missed it by a few weeks, but better late than never!

    New in this version:

    • 953 new SIDs
    • 93 fixed/better rips
    • 6 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated
    • 14 repeats/bad rips eliminated
    • 320 SID credit fixes
    • 159 SID model/clock infos
    • 8 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
    • 6 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
    • 38 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
    • 14 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers' directories

    The High Voltage SID Collection

  • Chipflip: Realtime SID delay

    News of a cool new technique for actual delay(as opposed to a software effecting using spare voices)  that runs exclusively on the older 6581 sounds chip.

    He explains:

    The Norwegian composer Geir Tjelta has introduced a new trick for the SID-chip: realtime delay. The output of the third channel of the SID can be recorded, and by delaying the playback of the sample on the “virtual” fourth channel, you get a subtle echo. This routine doesn’t use much CPU-time either. A nice and elegant trick. Get the exe and mp3 here.

    He then teases the following:

    Geir also programs an editor together with GRG, Sid Duzz It, which according to the rumours will include this echo effect along with extensive MIDI support in the next version.

    via More Soundchip Hacking: Realtime SID delay « CHIPFLIP.

  • Bad Scene Poets are back

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  • eMod Universal Tracker Appeared

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    CHIPFLIP has news of a new universal tracker in the works for Windows:

    eMod is being made with a vision to provide several tools to work with music modules of any format, across multiple platforms (amiga included of course!).

    for now, only the player tool has been implemented; other tools will include a ripper, editor/sequencer, a formats ‘encyclopedia’, repair tool, convertor, and some other stuff. it’s been WIP for about a year. i’m thinking about releasing it as shareware but most probably it will become open source upon the first stable release.

    this alpha release implements music playback for four amiga formats; future composer 1.0-1.3, future composer 1.4, delta music 2.x, and protracker 4-channel modules.

    via English Amiga Board.