TSID (Time Sid Manager)

PSID RIP of TUNES

If you today want to listen to your preffered tune games/demo using your PC, you can do these:

take a C64 emulator and then run the games in his original format
take a PSID file containing the tune and listen it with a sidplayer

A PSID file is a special file containing the code that a tune must execute like in the C64 for producing the sound, with some extra hack for making sample music.

I have creating some rips, essentially because this is a simple way to understand how a music is made.

Arrival of the queen of Sheba	Andrew Colin	1983 Commodore
This is a demo tune described in Appendix A of the Introduction to Basic part 2 book. It uses 3 voices controlled by machine code, while all the data are putted in a Basic Program. However it uses a complete 8 octave frequency map for the notes. I rip this tune essentially because my first tune use the same engine, so I know it very well. It is very good sid music that use little of the SID functions, but with a wonderful result for a 1983 tune.
Testcard	Andew Colin	1982 Commodore
This is a demo tune used in the Introduction to Basic part 1 book. It uses 2/3 voices controlled by machine code and Basic too. However the engine is just a previous step of the one used in Sheba. This is probably one of the first C64 demo, with sound and animation. The sound is quite simple.
Lazarian	?	1983 Commodore
The first game I play with my C64. The engine use the IRQ for music and NMI for changing the music when a screen is passed. Voices 1 and 2 are for music, while voice 3 are for sound effect. It uses a table of 1 octave frequencies, but you choose the octave you want to play.
Dig Dug	?	1984 Datasoft
A very nice platform game. The music is game sensitive: it changes according with your actions. The engine don't have frequency table, but the pattern is a sequence of instructions to perform: set ADSL, set frequency...,
Android 2	?	1983 Ocean
A great Oxygen 4 of Jean Michel Jarre is played by this game. You may change the music level by pressing some keys (in the rip there's the default middle value). The engine has a sequence of instructions to performe (like set frequency...), but patterns are even present. The rip is not good as I want: the compiled source dosn't sound in C64 emulator; only PSID file are play correctly by sidplayer.
Petch	?	1983 Colosoftware
Popcorn by Hot Butter is the main theme of this game. The music is made only by one voice. Tables of frequencies/durations compose the notes to play.
Empire	?	1985 Firebird
A game with music that changes according to the screens. Only 2 voices for the music, plus one for the sound effects. The rip seems me not so clean as I expected.
Telengard	?	1983 Havalon Hill
This is a machine code conversion in RSID of a BASIC rip. The conversion cannot be as in BASIC but you should be able to listen to it with a good feeling.
Sword of fargoal	Jeff McCord	1983 Epyx
This is a machine code conversion in RSID of a BASIC rip. There is also a try to emulate some RND instructions used in BASIC.
Silly 64	?	1983 Silly Software
This is a machine code conversion in RSID of a BASIC demo. The conversion cannot be as in BASIC but you should be able to listen to it with a good feeling.

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