#hard-restart
- JITT64 (Java Ice Team Tracker) toolA cross-platform tracker for the sid written in Java by stefano-tognon (ice00), the editor of sidin , and documented by him in SIDin #13 (2010-06-28) from the user's side and from inside the player. Its distinguishing …
- Johannes Bjerregaard's player toolThe driver johannes-bjerregaard wrote for himself — in 1986 the only "scene composer with own player" SIDwave can name ( s-recollection-brief-history-of-sid ) — and kept when he joined maniacs-of-noise in 1988 …
- chipmusic.org — the defMON megathread (2014–2026) summaryThe de-facto support forum, changelog and design diary for defMON , run for twelve years by its author frantic himself. He opens on 2014-06-08 ("If you are one of those people who tried it out and actually did …
- Composing in SID Factory II, Part 4 — Instruments (Chordian) summaryA tutorial blog post by chordian on making instruments in sid-factory-ii : what the ADSR bytes do, why hard restart exists, the four waveforms and their combinations on old and new chips, the noise lock-up and the test …
- defMONing 102: extended field guide (iLKke et al.) summaryThe extended, multi-author revision of iLKke's defMONing 101 for defmon — same reference core, plus precise timing semantics (fraMES), the full speed/timer key set, Super Commands, and long practical sections on the …
- Furnace tracker — C64 (SID) system and instrument documentation summaryTwo pages of the manual of furnace , a multi-system tracker (GPL-2.0 repository), describing how it drives the sid . Furnace is not one of this wiki's focus tools; the pages are kept as a second, independent description …
- Lemon64 threads: SID and ADSR re-triggering? (2008) / Hard restart – what's the story? (2015) summaryTwo short Lemon64 forum threads that between them give the practical understanding of the sid envelope problem behind hard-restart . In the first (2008, 4 posts) a game coder cannot retrigger a sound effect; lasse-oorni …
- My Computer Chronicles — Jens-Christian Huus / JCH (2017) summaryJens-Christian Huus — JCH of Vibrants , today the wiki's chordian — tells his whole computing life from 1983 to 2000: how a Danish postman with no musical education built the C64 music editor "that has since inspired …
- Old C64/PC Player/Editor Notes — Chordian (2017) summaryWhile compiling his memoir ( s-chordian-my-computer-chronicles ), chordian scanned the paper notes he kept in the 1980s and 90s for his C64 and PC music players and editors, and published them in five captioned …
- realdmx: Charles Deenen's two test tunes — an undated MUSICFILE build and the 'Scoop designs' Maniacs of Noise player summaryTwo of charles-deenen 's own sources in the realdmx collection ( s-realdmx-sid-players ). Test Tune is the musicfile code base — the same routines, labels and table formats as the Cybernoid II file, in a slightly …
- realdmx: Johannes Bjerregaard's own player — the James Bond 3 demo (a Maniacs of Noise commission) and Myth summaryTwo of johannes-bjerregaard 's own Turbo Assembler sources from 1989, in the realdmx collection ( s-realdmx-sid-players ) under Bjerregaard_Johannes_MON — but the player is his, not charles-deenen 's musicfile : nothing …
- realdmx: two scene players with their own sources — Francois Prijt's Audial Arts 'zong player' v1/v2 (1991) and Adam Bulka's FAME 'Sound Routine f 4.1.0' (1988) summaryThree original Turbo Assembler sources in the realdmx collection ( s-realdmx-sid-players ) from the demoscene rather than the games industry: Francois Prijt's "zong player" for the Dutch group Audial Arts (two versions, …
- Remix64 — An Interview with Anders Carlsson aka GOTO80 (Neil Carr, 2002) summaryNeil Carr interviews goto80 (Anders Carlsson, born 1981, Swedish) for Remix64 on 2002-09-18 — early in his career, just after moving to Gothenburg. The intro frames him as a maker of "rather funky and experimental SID …
- SIDin #11 — Tiny Sid 2, part 2: BLOCK ACID DUB and Resolution (Stefano Tognon, 2007) summaryTwo more Tiny Sid 2 entries ( tiny-sid-compo ), the sequel to s-sidin10-tiny-sid-2-part-1 : Frantic's 256-byte BLOCK ACID DUB , a generative dub tune whose player treats notes and instruments as one stream of SID …
- SIDin #12 — Tiny Sid 2, part 3: Plaster (512 b) and Back To Basics (256 b) (Stefano Tognon, 2008) summaryThe end of Tognon's series on the Tiny Sid Compo II : the two remaining entries, GRG's 512-byte Plaster — "the tune that take more points over all the others" — and Jaymz Julian's 256-byte Back To Basics , both "done by …
- SIDin #13 — Inside JITT64: the player routine (Stefano Tognon, 2010) summaryThe player behind jitt64 , explained by its author with the source: how init and the IRQ routine are organised (and why the SID is written at the start of the interrupt), how a pattern row is decoded into command bits, …
- SIDin #13 — JITT64 Tracker: Tognon's Java Ice Team Tracker from the user's side (2010) summarystefano-tognon documents his own jitt64 (Java Ice Team Tracker), "my C64 cross-platform music tracker … written in Java for being portable", from the user's side: screen layout, the track commands, the 16 pattern …
- SIDin #8 — Tiny Sid Compo, the 512-byte entries (Stefano Tognon, 2005) summaryTognon prints and comments the four entries of the 512-byte category of his tiny-sid-compo (2005): his own 15BB , Crue Gurl (A Life in Hell), Twone Five ( laxity ) and the winner Empty (4mat). Each is a complete …
- SIDin #9 — Tiny Sid Compo, the 256-byte entries (Stefano Tognon, 2006) summaryThe ten 256-byte entries of the 2005 tiny-sid-compo , with code and Tognon's notes — the counterpart of s-sidin08-tiny-sid-512b . At this size the players stop looking like drivers: code is copied into the zero page and …
- The CheeseCutter Guide — the recovered site manual (Wayback) summaryThe manual exists after all: the dead homepage's Guide page — enumerated out of the Wayback CDX index after the live site, the repo and the release zips all came up empty — documents cheesecutter 's default player, …
- Walleij — A SID player routine (MIDI-driven player design, note tables, hard restart) summaryDesign notes, in pseudo-code, for a MIDI-controlled sid player, written on request from Michael Kleps (the "M.K." of the extended Soundtracker module signature and author of the QuadraSID VST). linus-walleij learned how …