#8580
- 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 …
- Nata (Stephan Parth) personItalian SID composer from Naturns (South Tyrol), 22 in January 2006, member of Samar Productions , who began composing in 2003 and works in goattracker on a PC — "Yes it's cross-composing" — with an MMC64 to hear the …
- 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 #10 — Richard Bayliss interview (Stefano Tognon, 2006) summarystefano-tognon interviews richard-bayliss , the prolific British C64 game-maker and musician ("maybe you are the unique scener around today that can release a game a week?"), in July 2006 for sidin . The useful part for …
- SIDin #13 — TSM & Freedom interview (Stefano Tognon, 2010) summaryTwo Italian SID composers who wrote music for the (then unreleased) C64 conversion of the Amiga game Pushover , questioned in parallel: how they came to the SID, why both ended up in goattracker , what they think of …
- 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 — Nata (Stephan Parth) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2006) summaryTognon's interview with nata , "a very young and active Italian composer" who started SID music in 2003 and composes in goattracker — a portrait of the mid-2000s cross-composing scener: GoatTracker 2.2 with reSID …
- VGMPF wiki: Soundmonitor, TFMX Editor (C64) and The Great Giana Sisters (C64) summaryThree VGMPF pages that together describe the editors chris-huelsbeck used on the C64 and what happened to the great-giana-sisters music between editor and game.