COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer

COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer is a music system created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt for the Commodore 64 home computer. Sidplayer was the most popular Commodore 64 music system in the U.S., as measured by the number of songs available for download on services such as Compuserve and Q-Link (the forerunner to AOL).

The Sidplayer music system was featured in books published by COMPUTE! Books. The software included a song editor and a standalone player to create and play songs using the MOS 6581 SID (Sound Interface Device) chip, the 3-voice sound chip in the Commodore 64 computer.

This web site records the history of COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer and preserves some of the first songs created for this music system.