#pattern-searching
- Player identification (pattern searching) conceptTelling which music routine — which sid-player-routine — a .sid file was made with, by looking for a short sequence of code bytes that only that routine contains. Stefano Tognon set the method out in sidin #3 and #5 …
- SIDin #3 — Music Engine pattern searching, part 1 (Stefano Tognon, 2003) summaryHow to tell which music routine a .sid was made with: scan the file for a byte sequence that only that engine's code contains. Tognon gives the method (with source: pick characteristic code; without: compare …
- SIDin #5 — Music Engines Pattern Searching, part 2: the Lostack database (Stefano Tognon, 2004) summaryThe format of Lada 'Ray' Lostak's database of about 450 C64 music engines: Player blocks of Name , 3–16 ID=offset:value pairs, optional Message s and the addresses where the player keeps its track and pattern positions …