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SIDPlay

SIDPlay - 4.0

plays back C64 SID music files

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All Time: (4.6)
Version 4.0: (5.0)
Selected Version: 4.0
Release Date: 2008-04-15
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 4.0): 55
Downloads (all versions): 1,552

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Product Description:

SIDPLAY is just an ordinary music player software. More specifically, SIDPLAY emulates the Sound Interface Device chip (MOS 6581, known as SID) and the Micro Processor Unit (MOS 6510) of the Commodore 64 on your computer. It is a platform independent software emulating these hardware components. Therefore it is able to load and execute C64 machine code programs which produce music or sound. In general these are independent fragments of code and data which have been ripped from games and demonstration programs and were transfered directly from the C64. All you need is a supported operating system and audio hardware with average PCM waveform playback capabilities.

What's new in this version:

  • Based on the 1.36.34 version of the SIDPLAY emulation engine source and reSID 0.8
  • Added SIDStation support (see http://www.sidstation.com). If you have a SIDStation connected via a MIDI interface, you can use it as a sound output device (requires OMS)
  • Added oversampling in reSID mode to avoid aliasing (improves audio quality, especially with high pitch sounds). Be careful, as this requires a pretty fast CPU. Oversampling is only active if 16bit audio output is selected
  • Added "Open File from URL..." option. This can be used to load a tune directly from the Internet
  • Made dialogs and alerts more Appearance-savvy
  • Added possibility to drag SID tune files directly onto the Controls window to play them
  • Added filesize to info display in Controls window
  • Added experimental filter adjustment for reSID mode (click and drag inside the filter adjustment curve to change the strength of the filter)
  • Fixed wrong pitch in reSID mode (both emulation engines should now have exactly the same pitch as expected)
  • Fixed sample volume in reSID mode
  • Removed old code that sets the output volume of the sound device to maximum (this was experimental and never should have been in a release version)
  • Fixed broken fade out in AIFF export
  • Fixed broken export of stereo AIFF files in reSID mode
  • Fixed timeout for error alerts to be independent from the actual CPU speed
  • Fixed endless error loop if whole playlist is invalid and automatic tune switching is active

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.0
  • Mac OS X 10.1
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.2
  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS Classic

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Version 4.0:
Overall Rating: (5.0) Features: (4.0) Support: (4.0)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (5.0)
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SIDPlay ReviewAbsolutely fabulous - Version: 4.0, 3/8/2009 03:10PM PST

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neonlight
I’ve used SIDPlay for some years and I’m really glad the developer has done all the great work. I haven’t discovered any bugs so I highly recommend it to any fan of the Commodore 64 sound. Since Version 4 it was even better with a streamlined iTunes-alike interface and a usable playlist handling. Being already satisfied, I still have two feature requests:

1. The buttons to change the sub-songs should be a little bit bigger and maybe located outside the status display.

2. Maybe it’s possible to pre-render a SID song in AIFF or Apple-Losless format and then enable scrubbing at a timeline (move to any point of the song)

3. Sometimes I like to listen to a sub-song several times but after the song end is reached, SIDPlay continues with the next sub-song. So it would be great to either lock a sub song or to access the sub-songs via a disclosure triangle in the playlist, so the continue/repeat/shuffle settings apply to a sub-song as they do to a regular song.

Thanks a lot!
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SIDPlay ReviewZarking unstable on… - Version: 2.5, 10/22/2001 08:21AM PST

Nevyn
my system (MacOS Z-9.2.1 on a G3/300 with 192MB ram), but plays SID:s perfectly.
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SIDPlay ReviewWOW! … - Version: 2.5, 7/16/2001 05:18PM PST

HL/Popmusic.dk
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