Short: Version 3.0 of the famous SID emulator Author: rbk@ios.se (Ron Birk) Uploader: kunath informatik uni-muenchen de (Peter Kunath) Type: mus/play Architecture: m68k-amigaos NEW FEATURES: V3.0 (1994) * Uses PLAYSID.LIBRARY (please read separate docs) * Support of XPK Data Compression * Realtime waveform and envelope display (uses low priority task) * Shows C64 pictures (Koala, Blazing Paddles, Doodle, Adv Art Studio etc.) * TV System detection and selection * Channel on/off selection * PlaySID is now a commodity * Uses a config file for settings * Multifile selection (music and pictures) * Ability to show and hide PlaySID windows * Second PlaySID instance redirect modules to the running one * PlaySID font removed * More arexx commands * Many major bugs corrected PRODUCT INFO: This is a utility which uses the playsid.library to emulate the SID and 6510 chip. The SID chip is the component in the C64 computer that handles sound. The 6510 chip is the CPU of the C64, that means the component that actually executes all programs. Because the Amiga does not have these chips and others, you can't run C64 programs directly on Amiga. Now this utility lets you play all those C64 programs that produce sound. As you probably know, the C64 has three sound channels (the amiga has four). But this utility also allows use of the fourth channel. This channel is the product of some special programming on the C64, it isn't really a channel. The purpose of this product is to make the best conversion of C64 sound on Amiga ever possible. If you think some sound isn't correctly converted please let us know. This utility is designed to work with true multitasking, under any system version and any amiga model. It can be run from both Workbench and CLI/Shell. It should work with any other program that don't use sound or timing. If this isn't the fact please let us know. Some time ago we released a similar product called "The 100 most remembered C64 game-tunes". This product is the version 3.0 of that program. The tunes on that demonstration disk are now also available to this version. And up to date there are more than 400 tunes available. We and others are also working with more.