“Eclipse” Vice snapshot with Vice palette Made with the GIMP from a photo and converted to C64 160x200 Multicolor Mode Bitmap by Stefano Tognon in 2005 “Other tiny” ... Free Software Group 1 SIDin 9 version 1.00 14 January 2006 2 SIDin Contents General Index Editorials...............................................................................................................................................4 News.....................................................................................................................................................5 Goattracker 2.12/2.17......................................................................................................................5 Polly Tracker 1.2..............................................................................................................................5 SwinSID...........................................................................................................................................6 HVSC 43..........................................................................................................................................7 PollyTracker Compo........................................................................................................................7 Xmms-sid-0.8.0beta15.....................................................................................................................8 SwinSID2.........................................................................................................................................8 The Sid Compo V............................................................................................................................9 Goattracker 2.2/2.22........................................................................................................................9 Sidplay64 v0.3...............................................................................................................................10 HVSC 44........................................................................................................................................10 XMPlay SID plugin beta 24b.........................................................................................................11 Nata (Stephan Parth) Interview!........................................................................................................12 Tiny Sid Compo 256b entries.............................................................................................................15 Myblock... One Block....................................................................................................................15 Random Ninja................................................................................................................................19 Crue Gurl Freestyle........................................................................................................................23 128 Byte Blues...............................................................................................................................31 Imperial March...............................................................................................................................34 New Kid On The Block.................................................................................................................37 Repeat Me......................................................................................................................................42 Electronic.......................................................................................................................................45 Repetitive Tune BASIC.................................................................................................................48 Splatform256..................................................................................................................................49 Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................51 Catweasel Mk4 (follow).....................................................................................................................52 Driver.............................................................................................................................................52 Hardware buffer.............................................................................................................................53 Sound..............................................................................................................................................53 Test.................................................................................................................................................55 Analysis.........................................................................................................................................56 No Filter.........................................................................................................................................58 Another 6581.................................................................................................................................59 Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................60 3 Editorials Stefano Tognon <[email protected]> Hi, again. In this number there are two technical news: • The use of .odt instead of .sxw as document. This means that more programs can read the saved document (you may use OpenOffice 1.5 or 2.0 to open them) • Sources are colored based onto 6502 assembly syntax. This come out automatically by the new copy/paste function of KWrite (the KDE editor in Linux that supports 6502 syntax): now it is more simple to look at sources (maybe old numbers one day could be converted to colored syntax too). The articles are in some sort similar as in the previous number: the analysis of the 256 bytes en- tries of Tiny Sid Compo and the further analysis of the MK4. You should see in the 256 bytes entries lot of differents approach to the programming and I think that you could have some nice idea in how to implement your one in the near to come Tiny Sid Compo 2. After some further testing I was able to made the card sound better then before and finally I find the problems that remain to solve in my card. You probably will find this article a little too much descriptive and based on hypothesis that where reduced pages after pages, but this is the way I really used for investigate to the card and I think that a simple: “the card did not work for 1=.. 2=.. 3=.. “ gives no idea of the work below this conclusion. Bye S.T. 4 News Some various news of players, programs , competitions and hardwares: • Goattracker 2.12/2.18 • Polly Tracker 1.2 • SwinSID • JSIDPlay 0.3 • HVSC 43 • PollyTracker Compo • Xmms-sid-0.8.0beta15 • SwinSID2 • The Sid Compo V • Goattracker 2.2/2.22 • Sidplay64 v0.3 • HVSC 44 • XMPlay SID plugin beta 24b Goattracker 2.12/2.17 Released from August to November 2005 the new versions of Goattracker PC music tracker: v2.12 • Playroutine 1 has buffered SID-writes. • Octave 0 is not disabled in routines with sound FX (no matter what the relocator says...) v2.13 • Standard playroutine now both in unbuffered and buffered flavors. v2.15 • Added SHIFT+I for inverting current pattern selection / whole pattern. v2.16 • Fixed octave selection with / * for laptop keyboards. • Empty patterns referenced in the orderlist will be saved when saving a song. • Save dialog will reappear if writing the song/instrument/executable music failed. • Optimized handling of "packed rests" in the playroutines. • Added < > for instrument selection in instrument/table edit modes. v2.17 • Fixed initialization of instrument vibrato. • Playroutines size-optimized. v2.18 • Wavetable left side values changed. Delay is now $01-$0F and inaudible waveforms (regis- ter values $00-$0F) have been mapped to table values $E0-$EF. Download from: http://covertbitops.c64.org Polly Tracker 1.2 Released on 20 August 2005 the new version of Polly Tracker: v1.2 • Added demo modules • Loader problems with some disk drives fixed. Some old drives may still require an Initialize command (c=+M and type 'i') before loading dir Download: http://www.kolumbus.fi/aleksieeben/pollytracker/pollytracker.zip 5 SwinSID Features of SwinSID (16-bit stereo hardware sound module for C64) : • hardware compatibly with SID chip. • Software compatibly with SID ( almost full ) • 3 main channels + 3 effect channels. • Wavetable synthesis • 9 instruments stored in flash ROM • Programmable ADSR envelope generator. • Stereo reverb • High quality audio DAC - 16bit stereo. • 16 bit mixing with interpolation • Sampling rate 31,25 Khz. http://www.swinkels.tvtom.pl/swinsid/ JSIDPlay 0.3 JSIDPlay is SID-player based onto JaC64 and version 0.3 was released in September 2005: Features • ADSR emulation including ADSR bug • Emulation of combined waveforms using same method as re-sid (sample-lookup) • Filter (LP/BP/HP) • Synchronization, ring modulation, etc. • Interrupts - IRQ (50 times per second) - soon support for other playspeeds • Bank switching • PSID sample play (Galway Noice, and ordinary samples) • Supports .sid files (PSID, some RSIDs) • Better "timing" than ordinary JaC64 emulator (via sound-player) • Animation/Oscilloscope shows all SID voices, ADSR, frequency, etc while playing. Look at http://www.dreamfabric.com/c64/jsidplay/ for the online version. 6 HVSC 43 HVSC Update #43 was released on 21 September 2005 at www.hvsc.c64.org After this update, the collection should contain 30,743 SID files! This update features (all approximates): • 759 new SIDs • 19 fixed/better rips • 7 fixes of PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs • 24 repeats/bad rips eliminated • 500+ SID credit fixes • 600+ SID model/clock infos • 24 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified :-) • 34 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories • 5 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers' directories New features in HVSC v43: • Not much really groundbreaking this time, just a lot of SIDs for you to enjoy. • Murdock quit the HVSC team, good luck with your various other projects! Main Composers featured in this update: (Artists marked with NEW are either completely new to the HVSC or they get their own directory in this update) 4-Mat Abject Artlace Kjell Nordbø Brizz Pierre Conus (NEW) Cubehead Data Jeroen Koops LDX#40 (NEW) Madaco (NEW) Ozzy Oldskool Randy Kristopher Roebuck Surgeon XPO (ex-Goner) Peet Harald Rosenfeldt (NEW) Rambones Hein Holt DRAX PollyTracker Compo PollyTracker Compo ran in August/September at http://www.kolumbus.fi/aleksieeben/pollytrack- er/ with tunes made with the Polly Tracker editor. Final classification: 1 Pollyhunter Abaddon/Fairlight 98/110 2 Polly wants a tracker Randall 96.5/110 3 Supernoid E. Jones 87.5/110 4 Melo Hukka 70/110 5 Instant funk SDFG 65/110 6 Heavy metal rain Uneksija 65/110 7 Old domain Murdock/Tropyx 59/110 8 Bakakaj 57/110 9 Extreme!!! Murdock/Tropyx 41/110 10 Eight(lo) Aneurysm 39/110 11 My Commodore Bones 38/110 12 Trancer 38/110 7 Xmms-sid-0.8.0beta15 Released on 10 November 2005 the new version of the sid plugin for Xmms. News in version 0.8 so far: • Complete re-write. • Support for multiple emulator libraries, including libSIDPlay 2.x! See instructions in "IN- STALL" for more information. • HVSC song-length database support. XMMS-SID now supports the XSIDPLAY's song- length database for tunes contained in HVSC collection. Requires downloading of a small package (few hundred kB's), that contains the database. Read "README" for more info. • Minimum and maximum playtime settings. If enabled, song will be played for given time minimum and maximum. This can be used as a fall-back method if song-length database does not contain information for selected tune. • Improved file information dialog. • XMMS v1.2.5 introduced the "generic title format" that can be used to have same format ti- tles for those plugins that support it. XMMS-SID is now one of them. There is also an over- riding option, that enables you to have SID-specific titles. See the configuration dialog for more information. • New sub-song control methods as selectable options. Does not require patching of XMMS anymore, so they are easier to use. The XMMS patch used by older versions is supported as well, though. • Throw in a handful of bugfixes (and possibly new bugs), stir powerfully. Finally, sprinkle some minor improvements on the top and vo�a! Download the stuff from: http://www.tnsp.org/xmms-sid.php SwinSID2 After the released of SwinSID specifications, now are available the specifications of the next generation of the 16-bit stereo hardware sound module for C64: • Pin compatible with C64's SID socket. • Up to 8 voice channels • 2 channels of white and purple noise generators • 8 waveform oscillators with effects or 8bit stereo sample playback on each channel. • Cyclic wave synthesis • 16 waveforms stored in flash ROM • Independent stereo volume control • Stereo phase control for surround effect. • 16 effects for waveform processing including flanger, chorus, ring modulation, phase modu- lation and more. • 2 internal LFO oscillators for effect automation. • Hardware vibrato and tremolo effects. • One global filter with adjustable cut-off and resonance frequency. • High quality 16 bit stereo audio DAC • 16 bit mixing with interpolation • Sampling rate 31,25 KHz or 24 KHz • Requires special software to work. Look at http://www.swinkels.tvtom.pl/swinsid/swinsid2.htm 8 The Sid Compo V The 5° sid compo organized by www.c64.sk was running from 8 October to 13 November 2005. Here the final result: 1 Assatas Song Michal Hoffmann (Dat Nigga Randall) Poland 473 1 Bombs Over Dresden Alexander Rotzsch (Fanta) Germany 473 2 Pick It Up Stellan Andersson (Dane) Sweden 449 3 I Have a Knot In My Superstring Vincent Merken (_V_ ) Belgium 448 4 Water Is Fun Kamil Wolnikowski (Jammer) Poland 446 5 Valley of Dreams Dennis LeDoux (Phase 2/ ) Denmark 442 6 Solar Incantation Rafal Kazimierski (Asterion) Poland 436 7 Trainline Andromeda Luca Carrafiello (Luca) Italy 430 8 Lemmie Eat The Rastertime Marcin Kubica (Booker) Poland 424 9 Interstellarian Love Arman Behdad (Intensity) Germany 423 10 Transylvanian Whipping Lasse Öörni (Cadaver) Finland 418 11 error 23 Ronny Engmann (Dalezy) Germany 415 12 In Deep Freeze Timo Taipalus (Abaddon) Finland 411 13 Nightbird Sascha Zeidler (Linus) Germany 402 14 PMS Hein Holt (Hein) Netherlands 389 15 Dazzy Levstovski Siegfried Rudzynski (Crome) Germany 381 16 I w. to c. s. new but it s.like sid Daniel M. Gartke (Turtle) Germany 367 17 Future Impulse Stephan Parth (Nata) Italy 355 18 Spank! Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries (Rambones) Denmark 348 19 Exploring New Worlds Freedom Italy 339 19 Wall of Fire Richard Bayliss (Richard) United Kingdom 339 20 Bossah Novah Marcin Romanowski (Sidder) Poland 336 21 Hangman's Swing Maciej Stankiewicz (Trompkins) The Land of Po 309 22 dATA dISCO Robert Dörfler (LordNikon) Germany 280 23 Zion Gerhard Flagge (G-Fellow) Germany 273 24 Run From a Ghost Deborah (Decompracid) Netherlands 216 25 Poetry of a Lonely Mind Peter Bergstrand / Sweden 131 More info at http://www.c64.sk/sidcompo5-results.html Goattracker 2.2/2.22 Released on 11, 21 December 2005 and 9 January 2006 the new versions of Goattracker: v2.2 • Added the speedtable for more precise control of vibrato, portamento and funktempo. • Added SHIFT+O to optimize the speedtable (remove unused entries). • Added SHIFT+R to convert between absolute/relative notes in the wavetable. • Added SHIFT+RETURN in pattern/instrument editor to convert old style portamento, vibra- to and funktempo parameters to speedtable entries. • Song and instrument format modified for 4 tables. Old 3-table data will be loaded but not saved anymore. v2.21 • Fixed NTSC CIA timer value for SID files. • Shift+E will copy several effect rows if pattern has been marked. v2.22 • Shift+N will also negate relative wavetable notes. • When converting oldstyle parameters to speedtable entries with SHIFT+RETURN, the speedtable view will shift to the new entry if one was created. Download from: http://covertbitops.c64.org 9 Sidplay64 v0.3 Released on 19 December 2005 the C64 program that can playback sid files from the HVSC collection on a real c64: • Supports most CBM and CMD drive types and runs from the device currently selected. It is recommended to use Action Replay/Retro Replay. • It can handle 196 files in the playlist. A 1541 disk can only handle 144 files. Other drive types can handle more. • It detects if the file loaded is a HVSC sid file. (only version 2 sid files) • Two playlist functions: play next tune in list or play tunes at a random selection. • The program relocates itself according to startPage (reloc- StartPage) and pageLength (relocPages) found in the sid header. Possible relocation area is: $0400-$d000 • SID Tunes that doesnt use timers (dc04/dc05) is played back in PAL or NTSC speed. If the video standard for the tune is unknown, playback will be PAL speed. Download from http://home.eunet.no/~ggallefo/ HVSC 44 HVSC Update #44 was released on 24 December 2005 at www.hvsc.c64.org After this update, the collection should contain 31,330 SID files! This update features (all approximates): • 620 new SIDs • 87 fixed/better rips • 4 fixes of PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs • 4 repeats/bad rips eliminated • 360 SID credit fixes • 150 SID model/clock infos • 9 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified :-) • 20 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories • 12 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers' directories Main Composers featured in this update: (Artists marked with NEW are either completely new to the HVSC or they get their own directory in this update) Tomas Danko DRAX Jörg Rosenstiel 10