C64music.dsl request!
Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: C64music.dsl request!
started by: schopenhauer101
Posted by schopenhauer101 on Jan. 27 2005,17:50
Hi!Yes the topic title says it all! The higher dimensions of geekness i belive includes support for c64 music. XMMS-sid (Around 260Kb), simulates the c64 soundchip, the sidchip, very well indeed, and the sound of commando, ghost and goblins, last ninja, delta, wizball and all the rest of the classics makes my linuxsystem smell retro oldschool. Techno-ish stuff and electronica in all tastes is still being produced on the c64 and it sounds *alot* more groovy and skilled than it did back in the 80s. Try out some composers like Taxim, Grg, Agemixer, and Sonic. The chip songs are usually around 5 kb small and at < http://www.hvsc.c64.org/ > you can choose between 27.653 different sidchip-tunes. If anyone knows how to make a .dsl for xmms-sid or Xsidplay i will spread the word in the worldwide Commodore 64 community and welcome them to the wonder of DSL.
Take care/
Björn
Posted by tronik on Jan. 28 2005,01:13
Very interesting. Good to know there are other people who like chiptunes who use DSL. 
What community are you from?!?! ;)LET ME KNOW! kthxbye.
-william
Posted by Xamiat on Jan. 28 2005,10:17
COOL!The C64 emulator VICE would also make a awesome .dsl
Thousands of free games demos/intros and 8bit mayhem!
Check out:
www.gamebase64.com for games,
www.demodungeon.com for demos/intros, and
www.c64.sk for c64news/parties.
Enjoy!
Xamiat/ Anvil Xorgline.
Posted by schopenhauer101 on Jan. 28 2005,19:26
Hi!I've done some research, there is a very small console sidplayer that i found in apt. Its name is plain "sidplay". However it is no fun to type sidplay [NameOfSidfile.sid] everytime just to hear a song. If the sidplay.dsl package would associate emelfm with the sidfiles however, then DSL would have sidchip-support for the cheap cost of only 119 kB of ram (The .deb package is 30.6 kB).
The Xsidplay is however lightyears above in comfort, ability and options, It is really great, Take a look at the screenshots at freshmeat or at their homepage. < http://freshmeat.net/projects/xsidplay/ >
The .deb package for Xsidplay is 219 kB.
The cool thing about sids exept from the brutal sound (speaking of the sids made during the last 5 years) is the minimalism in size. The zip file at HVSC with the 27.653 tunes inside is just 48.9 MB small! Imagine the size of 27.653 Mp3s.
Hey Tronik!, Which community? The undefined worldwide one! I was into the scene on amiga (Hmm, how about a modplayer in DSL by the way
)not the c64 if that is what you wonder. Maybe you knew about D-mob. In the town of the university im at there is people from Fairlight and Triad. Everyone remember them if they are over 25 years of age and had a Commodore i belive.Its always nice to hear that there is other people that is into blipblop music!
Take care/
Björn
Posted by mage492 on Feb. 01 2005,22:20
"and the sound of commando, ghost and goblins, last ninja, delta, wizball and all the rest of the classics makes my linuxsystem smell retro oldschool."Didn't you forget Cybernoid II? I've spent many happy hours listening to the theme song (much to the dismay of everyone around me)... Now, a myDSL for all those songs would be wonderful!
Posted by schopenhauer101 on Feb. 10 2005,02:47
Its finished and posted!What is? Well, i made a .dsl that contains not one, but tree plugins for xmms. The .dsl will make xmms play C64(.sid, psid), amiga/pc(.mod .xm .s3m etc etc) and nintendo(nes .nfs) music.
The extension is below a half MB.
I also made another .dsl with 231(!) songfiles (many with subsongs inside) in the above mentioned formats.
The filesize is below 3 MB!
That is usually less size than one .mp3 or .ogg file.
This might be suitable for a distro that aims at minimalism.
All songs mentioned in this thread are included by the way.
Ive posted it all to Ke4nt so it should be included under "testing" soon i hope.
Enjoy.
/Björn.
Posted by ke4nt1 on Feb. 10 2005,03:00
I typically try to post up new contributions 2 - 3 times a month.Testing pre-releases, and new releases, like the one recently posted,
take away some time from extension testing, evaluation, and rebuilding..
I have several new ones to post soon..
I did receive yours..
73
ke4nt
Posted by schopenhauer101 on Feb. 27 2005,03:11
For anyone interested in the chiptunes/chiptuneplugins just download the 2 .dsl's from "testing". Enjoy.Take care
/Björn
Posted by tronik on Feb. 27 2005,07:07
Thanks. That is very interesting. Great Job!\<3 chiptune.