Short: Version 3.0 of the famous SID emulator Author: rbk@ios.se (Ron Birk) Uploader: kunath@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Peter Kunath) Type: mus/play NEW FEATURES: V3.0 (1994) * Uses PLAYSID.LIBRARY (please read separate docs) * Support of XPK Data Compression * Realtime waveform and envelope display (uses low priority task) * Shows C64 pictures (Koala, Blazing Paddles, Doodle, Adv Art Studio etc.) * TV System detection and selection * Channel on/off selection * PlaySID is now a commodity * Uses a config file for settings * Multifile selection (music and pictures) * Ability to show and hide PlaySID windows * Second PlaySID instance redirect modules to the running one * PlaySID font removed * More arexx commands * Many major bugs corrected PRODUCT INFO: This is a utility which uses the playsid.library to emulate the SID and 6510 chip. The SID chip is the component in the C64 computer that handles sound. The 6510 chip is the CPU of the C64, that means the component that actually executes all programs. Because the Amiga does not have these chips and others, you can't run C64 programs directly on Amiga. Now this utility lets you play all those C64 programs that produce sound. As you probably know, the C64 has three sound channels (the amiga has four). But this utility also allows use of the fourth channel. This channel is the product of some special programming on the C64, it isn't really a channel. The purpose of this product is to make the best conversion of C64 sound on Amiga ever possible. If you think some sound isn't correctly converted please let us know. This utility is designed to work with true multitasking, under any system version and any amiga model. It can be run from both Workbench and CLI/Shell. It should work with any other program that don't use sound or timing. If this isn't the fact please let us know. Some time ago we released a similar product called "The 100 most remembered C64 game-tunes". This product is the version 3.0 of that program. The tunes on that demonstration disk are now also available to this version. And up to date there are more than 400 tunes available. We and others are also working with more. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 628 256 59.2% 12-Aug-94 10:30:52 PlaySID3.0.info 89 64 28.0% 12-Aug-94 10:31:30 PlaySID3.0/arexx/jukebox.data 859 416 51.5% 12-Aug-94 10:31:30 PlaySID3.0/arexx/jukebox.rexx 552 305 44.7% 12-Aug-94 10:31:28 PlaySID3.0/arexx/preview.rexx 17468 5477 68.6% 12-Aug-94 10:31:28 PlaySID3.0/Catalog.doc 447 237 46.9% 12-Aug-94 10:31:28 PlaySID3.0/Catalog.doc.info 10858 4204 61.2% 12-Aug-94 10:31:16 PlaySID3.0/Convert.doc 457 244 46.6% 12-Aug-94 10:31:16 PlaySID3.0/Convert.doc.info 3356 1380 58.8% 12-Aug-94 10:31:28 PlaySID3.0/Developer.doc 447 235 47.4% 12-Aug-94 10:31:26 PlaySID3.0/Developer.doc.info 696 386 44.5% 12-Aug-94 10:31:26 PlaySID3.0/fd/playsid_lib.fd 1165 574 50.7% 12-Aug-94 10:31:26 PlaySID3.0/include/clib/playsid_protos.h 986 420 57.4% 12-Aug-94 10:31:26 PlaySID3.0/include/libraries/playsid_lib.i 1955 802 58.9% 12-Aug-94 10:31:24 PlaySID3.0/include/libraries/playsidbase.h 2069 810 60.8% 12-Aug-94 10:31:24 PlaySID3.0/include/libraries/playsidbase.i 1053 367 65.1% 12-Aug-94 10:31:24 PlaySID3.0/include/pragmas/playsid_pragmas.h 189 127 32.8% 12-Aug-94 10:31:24 PlaySID3.0/include/proto/playsid.h 724 326 54.9% 12-Aug-94 10:31:24 PlaySID3.0/Install_Library 714 358 49.8% 12-Aug-94 10:31:22 PlaySID3.0/Install_Library.info 8456 4021 52.4% 12-Aug-94 10:31:22 PlaySID3.0/Library.doc 457 242 47.0% 12-Aug-94 10:31:22 PlaySID3.0/Library.doc.info 27992 14046 49.8% 12-Aug-94 10:31:22 PlaySID3.0/libs/playsid.library 8148 4902 39.8% 17-Aug-94 14:43:44 PlaySID3.0/MakeSIDIcon 29708 15569 47.5% 12-Aug-94 10:38:08 PlaySID3.0/PlaySID 13982 6339 54.6% 12-Aug-94 10:31:18 PlaySID3.0/PlaySID.doc 457 242 47.0% 12-Aug-94 10:31:16 PlaySID3.0/PlaySID.doc.info 3502 1300 62.8% 12-Aug-94 10:31:20 PlaySID3.0/PlaySID.info 170 128 24.7% 12-Aug-94 10:31:30 PlaySID3.0/scripts/ConvertToIcon.script 161 126 21.7% 12-Aug-94 10:31:30 PlaySID3.0/scripts/MakeIconsForSIDS.script 6060 3701 38.9% 17-Aug-94 14:43:32 PlaySID3.0/SIDConv -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 143805 67604 52.9% 30-Aug-94 11:43:44 30 files