Category: C64

  • C64 Jukebox online!

    I thought this was a very cool idea which I hope gets bigger! It’s like a last.fm scrobbler for SID music:

    There is a new community driven C64 Jukebox on Twitter
    Are you curious what other SID fans are listening to right now?
    Do you want to play those tunes with one single click?

    Follow the C64 Jukebox on Twitter:

    Play button clicks on http://web.archive.org/web/20140208082456/http://www.hardsid.com/ , ACID64 and the HardSID 4U Winamp plugin are all feeding this jukebox. It sends a .sid file link with each update, so you can play right from Twitter.

    Not for HardSID users only – anyone can use it even with emulation

    Initial idea: Wilfred Bos, https://www.acid64.com/
    Final concept/development: http://web.archive.org/web/20140208082456/http://www.hardsid.com/

    via C64 .sk.

    Check Peter’s post about ACID64, with more info regarding the player, clicking here!

  • Show this to the children

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  • Exotica update!

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    My favourite and one of the most complete archives of Amiga music, Exotica, has had a pretty significant update. According to my old friend BuZz:

     

    There have been major changes to the various music collection interfaces. The biggest feature addition is that for most of the tunes you can now Ogg Vorbis encoded audio recordings directly from the search interface.

    These are created on the fly in real-time, and as such are provided for convenience rather than accuracy, however you may well be surprised at how good they sound. To access the Ogg downloads browse or search for a tune, and a button will be displayed above the results that allows you to show the Ogg download links.

    Read more about the new Ogg download feature.

    Exotica is not just a file repository, most every file is coupled with a load of other data and also mirrors many collections of other platforms like the HVSC, converting it into an ambitioous database of old computer music.

    You can access the different sections of this huge collection clicking here.

    via Abime.net.

  • Acid64 Player Pro for Hardsid devices appeared

    acid64_v300_vista_browse_thumbThere is an all new release of this great standalone player for Hardsid devices.

    Changes in this release:

    New

    • – Fast incremental SID file search on title, author, year and publisher fields
    • – Seek through SID tunes via slider bar
    • – Digital clock
    • – Scroll wheel support when hovering over grids and list boxes
    • – Anonymous usage statistics

    Improvements

    • – Tree view of folders
    • – SidID search in properties menu is done in background now to access dialog faster
    • – Emulation improvements
    • – Keyboard navigation improvements
    • – Many small improvements/fixes

    Check out:

  • Breakpoint 2009 wrap-up Part Two

    I hope you enjoyed the demo wrap up because here is part two. I almost forgot about these, to be honest, so I am sorry!

    What we have here is a bunch of files in the categories of Music, Graphics and Games.

    All the oldschool platforms are bundled together on one music category, called “executable oldschool music”. Don’t ask me about the ‘executable’ part, some of these did not come in any sort of executable format. Pixel graphics are not a very popular thing nowadays on the demoscene, so this year we only got one category to cater for that: C64 graphics. Fortunately for the oldschoolers among us, they made an unofficial compo for ASCII and ANSI graphics so we have that too. Then we have 96KB game, which was multiplatform and had a very cool game for the C64.

    So, let’s hit it on with all the data!

    Click here to see all the data!