#instrument-tables
- Cybernoid II (Jeroen Tel, 1988) songjeroen-tel 's music for hewson 's sequel (C64, 1988-10): two songs — title and game over — in charles-deenen 's musicfile driver, "MUSICFILE V01-07-1988"; the source is public, so this is the one classic …
- 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 …
- Martin Galway's player (the Ocean "macro-language" driver) toolThe 6502 music system martin-galway wrote at Ocean from 1984 ("there never was an editor … It was always assembler source files"; source: s-sidmusic-galway-interviews ), known from two reverse-engineered tunes: the …
- Matt Gray's player (Driller / Dominator engine) toolThe 6502 music driver matt-gray wrote for himself from late 1986 after codemasters told him he needed one, and used for every C64 game from driller (1987) to Deliverance (1990). It is documented twice: Stefano Tognon …
- Modules (Ivan Del Duca, 1988) songThe music of Modules , an Italian C64 game of 1988, written by its coder Ivan Del Duca in a music engine of his own — according to Stefano Tognon "probably … the first Italian music engine around". Tognon …
- MUSICFILE — the Maniacs of Noise driver toolThe C64 music driver charles-deenen wrote in 1987 for maniacs-of-noise — "Deenen programmed a music driver ('Musicfile') and a sound effects driver in Turbo Ass" — into which jeroen-tel , Marcel Donné and reyn-ouwehand …
- Paul Hughes's Ocean music driver (Jonathan Dunn's player) toolThe 1988 in-house music system of Ocean Software: "Oh wow (paroxism!) programming by Paul Hughes", with jonathan-dunn 's "Orchestration, blood, sweat & tears" — known from two original sources in the realdmx collection, …
- Rob Hubbard's driver (the Monty on the Run player) toolThe 6502 music routine rob-hubbard wrote in 1985 and, per Anthony McSweeney's disassembly, "used (with small modifications) for his first approx. 30 tunes" — the player of monty-on-the-run , commando , Crazy Comets, …
- GitHub realdmx/c64_6581_sid_players — Cybernoid II in Deenen's MUSICFILE, the MoN SFX player, the Driller listing summaryA GitHub collection of "original and reverse-engineered music players for the C64", converted to the ACME assembler so that "every assembly file should produce a .sid file". Its Tel_Jeroen_MON/Tel_Jeroen_Cybernoid2.asm …
- Matt Gray's Dominator subtune 6 source (PLAYER V4.2, 1987) and the Reformation driver competition summaryThe only C64 driver in the wiki published by its author: matt-gray 's own 6502 source for one dominator subtune, released under Creative Commons on 2014-11-26 as a gift to SID composers and the basis of a composing …
- 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: Jonathan Dunn's Daley Thompson '88 and Ocean Loader 5 in Paul Hughes's Ocean music driver summaryTwo original Ocean Software sources from 1988 — not reverse-engineered — in the realdmx collection ( s-realdmx-sid-players ): the Daley Thompson '88 soundtrack (six tunes) and the loader tune HVSC calls Ocean Loader 5 , …
- realdmx: Reyn Ouwehand's Armada (MUSICFILE, 'Special version for Reyn Ouwehand', 1989) and Dutch Breeze (the 1990 MoN player) summaryTwo original Turbo Assembler sources of reyn-ouwehand 's in the realdmx collection ( s-realdmx-sid-players ). Armada (1989) is charles-deenen 's musicfile — the Cybernoid II code with a longer banner: "Scoop Designs …
- realdmx: Rob Hubbard's driver — McSweeney's Monty on the Run disassembly and the Commando title summaryTwo files from the realdmx collection ( s-realdmx-sid-players ) hold the 6502 driver rob-hubbard used, per the header, "(with small modifications) for his first approx. 30 tunes": Anthony McSweeney's commented …
- 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, …
- SIDin #11 — SID Factory vs Ninjatracker (Stefano Tognon, 2007) summaryTwo native C64 editors "released about the same day": laxity 's SID Factory (the 2007 ancestor of sid-factory-ii ) and lasse-oorni 's ninjatracker V2 . Tognon documents the data formats of both — the SID Factory …
- 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 #14 — Inside Matt Gray's Dominator player (Tognon's commented PLAYER V4.2 and the musician's guide to composing in it, 2015) summaryWritten for the Reformation driver competition ( s-matt-gray-dominator-source ): Tognon takes matt-gray 's released dom6-public.asm , comments every line, explains 64tass syntax to non-programmers, walks through the …
- SIDin #2 — Matt Gray's Driller music routine (Stefano Tognon, 2002) summaryStefano Tognon's reverse-engineering of the driller player, published in his free SID e-zine sidin in 2002 — the documentation of the matt-gray-player as it was in 1987: song/track/pattern structure, the pattern command …
- SIDin #4 — Martin Galway's Arkanoid music routine, the explanation (Stefano Tognon, 2003) summaryTognon's prose around his reverse-engineering of arkanoid — the explanation of the galway-player that the code alone does not give: why he picked this tune, what he thinks of the code, which instructions exist on which …
- SIDin #6 — Asterion Sid Tracker v1.0 reviewed (Stefano Tognon, 2004) summaryTognon's walkthrough of a native C64 tracker released in 2004 by Asterion of the group Tinnitus: a one-screen editor whose instrument lives in a 13-parameter sound table with independent wave and arpeggio macros, whose …
- SIDin #7 — Inside Modules: Ivan Del Duca's music engine (Stefano Tognon, 2005) summaryTognon's reverse-engineering of the music engine of Modules , an Italian C64 game of 1988 whose coder, Ivan Del Duca, "probably wrote the first Italian music engine around, instead of used the one's that were available" …