#6581
- Catweasel Mk4 toolA PCI card by Individual Computers — a floppy controller for Amiga and C64 disks with a digital-joystick port — that also carries two sid sockets , so a PC can play .sid files through a real 6581 and a real 8580 and …
- HardSID toolA family of PC cards and later USB boxes that carry real sid chips , so a PC tracker or player can drive a genuine 6581/8580 instead of an emulation. The wiki knows the line through sidin 's news pages (2003–2010) and …
- commodore-64.eu — The C64 SID Chip (6581 vs 8580 overview) summaryAn accessible, unsigned overview of the sid for a general audience. It is a secondary source : nothing on it carries a reference, and the page sells things. The wiki uses it only to confirm or annotate claims that …
- SIDin #3 — Stephan Schmid (Steppe) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2003) summaryThe sidin interview with stephan-schmid — Steppe, webmaster of the Demodungeon and since October 2002 a member of the hvsc crew: three weeks of Soundmonitor in 1991, what an HVSC crew member actually does all day, a …
- SIDin #5 — Chris Huelsbeck interview (Stefano Tognon, 2004) summaryA short e-mail interview with chris-huelsbeck whose one long answer is the most precise account he has given of his C64 drivers: Soundmonitor built on his third player, then TFM and a sample revision, then tfmx — and …
- SIDin #8 — Catweasel Mk4: a PCI card with two SID sockets (Stefano Tognon, 2005) summaryTognon buys Individual Computers' Catweasel Mk4, a PCI floppy-controller card with two sid sockets, fits a 6581 pulled from a dead C64, and gets Simon White's Linux hardsid driver to recognise it — but not yet to play …
- SIDin #9 — Catweasel Mk4 follow-up: driver, hardware buffer, two 6581s and the filter (Stefano Tognon, 2006) summaryTognon's second article on the catweasel Mk4 — a PCI card with two sid sockets — after the first one ended with "horrible" sound. He finds and patches a timing bug in Simon White's Linux driver, explains what the card's …