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- C64 Programmer's Reference Guide, ch. 4 — Programming Sound and Music on Your Commodore 64 (1982) summaryThe official 1982 introduction to the sid from the BASIC programmer's side: ten example programs that POKE the chip's registers, each with a line-by-line explanation, plus a short "technical explanation" of frequency, …
- SIDin #3 — Ripping BASIC based tune: Sheba and Testcard (Stefano Tognon, 2003) summaryHow Tognon turned two BASIC programs from Commodore's Introduction to BASIC course — Andrew Colin's The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (part 2, Appendix A) and the Testcard demo (part 1) — into PSID files. A BASIC-driven …
- SIDin #4 — Ripping a BASIC program into RSID: Telengard (Stefano Tognon, 2003) summaryHow Stefano Tognon turned a BASIC-only rip of Telengard (Avalon Hill, 1983) — a text adventure whose sound is written entirely in BASIC, without interrupts — into machine code a SID player can run: every BASIC statement …