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COMPUTE!'s Gazette Sid Collection offers .zip files of thousands of Sidplayer .mus and related files archived by Peter Weighill. (Sidplayer was published in books by the same company that published COMPUTE! and COMPUTE!'s Gazette magazines, but Sidplayer never appeared in the Gazette, even though it is now known by that association.)
Sidplayer music flourished on the Q-Link service. Former Q-Link Music Room host David Strauss has archived many of Q-Link's most popular and top-voted Sidplayer songs at his Q-Link Sid Archives.
The Sidplayer music system published by COMPUTE! Books was not the only music system for the Commodore 64. Some professional composers used their own proprietary music systems to create music for commercial game programs. Editor programs for creating this music were not distributed at the time.
The High Voltage SID Collection site offers information about the awesome ML-based game music SID artists such as Rob Hubbard.
See The SID Homepage for an interview with Bob Yannes, the designer of the SID chip, and for SID chip technical information and other useful links.
Michael Schwendt's SIDPLAY Home Page has available an emulator for the SID chip that runs on several operating systems including Linux, *BSD, Mac OS, Windows, OS/2 Warp, BeOS, and Amiga.
Sidplay 2 is the second in the Sidplay series originally developed by Michael Schwendt. This version is written by Michael White and is capable of playing all Commodore 64 mono and stereo file formats.
Sidplay 2/w is a Windows GUI for Sidplay 2 written by Adam Lorentzon. To play Sidplayer songs in Windows, all you have to do is download a small .zip file from Adam's web site, unzip the files, and associate the .sid filename extension with the unzipped player program. You will then be able to click on any Sidplayer .mus.sid file online or in your folders, and hear it play.
VICE is a program that runs on various operating systems including Windows, MacOS and Linux, and executes programs written for the Commodore 64.
revised July 23, 2005 10:12 EST