C64 nostalgia on empeg!

Are you missing your favorite C64 tunes?

I found a rather easily portable libsidplay package for Debian which I managed to get to work with empeg and now you can turn your empeg Mk1/Mk2 into a C64 SID emulator!

I built a very simple UI for sidplay to allow playing multiple sid files and controlling the volume. You can download it from here. Note, this is only a temporary location, hopefully Verement will add it to the developer's site soon.

The package contains one executable which is the sid player with one embedded example tune. Copying .sid files into the same directory with the executable allows you to have multiple sid files on the play list. The purpose of this is just to provide a very simple way of playing those C64 SID files and therefore the UI only contains the very minimum set of controls.

Amazingly, the sound quality in some of those tunes is really good. As the sound samples are generated on-the-fly they are 44KHz 16-bit and therefore sound much better than 10+ years ago on original C64.

If you get kicks out of listening old C64 tunes, there are more than 10000 tunes available for free in various web sites and SID file collections.

Enjoy!

Kim

What nostaligia! Scary and cool, all at the same time.

I always say "Everything I need to know about programming, I learned on the C-64".

I'll still never forget the day that I grasped the concept of indirect indexed addressing in 6502 assembler. I was about 15 years old, and was having to ask someone younger than me about assembly-language coding... how embarassing (some things never change). He had to explain it to me about five times before I got it.

After that, his family screened their telephone calls, and I didn't get much of a chance to talk to him...

Anyway, cool beans on the SID emulator for the Empeg. Sounds like something that'd be pretty easy to incorporate into the main player software, too. That'd be hilarious: "Supports MP3, MP2, WAV, WMA, and SID"...

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Tony Fabris