#multispeed
- defMON toolfrantic 's native C64 sid music editor — in iLKke's words "the only true tracker for the C64 (as opposed to sound 'editors')": there are no instruments, no effect commands and no per-purpose tables, only one sound table …
- chipmusic.org — sid music hints'n'tips (2013) summary4mat opens by pointing at a CSDb thread of SID tips "with contributions from Jammer, Jeff and many others" (link not preserved) and at "a really good article" on the waveform differences between 6581 and 8580 (link not …
- 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 …
- defMON wiki — features, interface overview, seqED key map summaryThe unofficial documentation of defmon , frantic 's C64 sid music editor, from the wiki mirror at defmon.vandervecken.com ("There is no official support for the program, but on this wiki you will find some bits and …
- defMON wiki — using a defMON tune in your own program summaryThe defmon wiki's developer pages: how to link a packed defMON tune into an assembly project, the init/play/update entry points (including the multispeed split), and the self-modifying global-volume location. "The …
- realdmx: Martin Galway's Arkanoid — Tognon's SIDin #4 reverse-engineering, with the 'sample' synthesis through $D418 summaryThe full Arkanoid (Imagine, 1986) music and sound-effect program of martin-galway , reverse-engineered by Stefano Tognon for sidin #4 and converted to ACME by dmx87 ( s-realdmx-sid-players ). It is the later, larger …
- SIDin #1 — Luca Carrafiello (Luca/FIRE) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2002) summaryThe first interview of sidin : Stefano Tognon asks the Italian Plus/4 scener and SID composer luca-carrafiello how someone without a SID chip came to write SID music — through converted Plus/4 editors, a SIDcard and a …
- SIDin #12 — Mihály Horváth (Hermit) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2008) summaryhermit four years before sid-wizard : Tognon interviews him about "a tracker that can control 3 sid chips", written on a real commodore-64 between January and May 2008. The interview gives his real name, age and job, …
- SIDin #12 — Ripping Trivia Arcade (Stefano Tognon, 2008) summaryA worked example of turning game music into a .sid file when the player does not follow the init/play convention: the music of The Trivia Arcade sits in a separate file, has three entry points, and runs four times per …
- The Brief History of SID — Jan Harries (SIDwave), Vandalism News #64 (2015) summaryA scener's memoir of C64 music from 1982 to the 2010s, written by a ripper who says he has "seen many players, 5600+ to be exact" — opinionated, sometimes score-settling, but full of first-hand claims about who wrote …