Just found another STA$D400 tune lurking on my hard drive ready to be uploaded to Bandcamp: "Machine Code" - Unfortunately I only have all the other tunes as mp3. I'll probably have to transfer them from my own to an up-to-date tracker format and re-record them when the time comes.
https://stad400.bandcamp.com/track/machine-code
#chiptune #c64 #sid #sid8580 #8bit #NowPlaying

This is the place where you can get all kinds of Commodore goodies.

I would consider this the Wikipedia of Commodore 64 and related computers

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

USBSID-Pico featuring 1x MOS8580

playing: Flamethrower
by: Reed
player: C64Jukebox
source: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=90393

People who like #C64 #SID #mos6581 #mos8580

might also like #JohnMaus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRQtRpXj_H8

me do

Wow, on my Debian Trixie/Sid system sound now sometimes sounds completely distorted at random times while listening to music with Rhythmbox while browsing the web with Firefox. I did an upgrade of @pipewire from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 yesterday. Somebody else seeing this?

Does anybody know of a plain C emulation of the #C64 #SID?
All the libraries I can find are C++ (which I don't want for $reasons)...

Mit 12 konnte ich diesem Musikstück auf meinem #Commodore64 stundenlang zuhören. Es ist das Thema der kanadischen Dokumentationsserie "The Stationary Ark" aus dem Jahr 1975. Davon wusste ich damals natürlich nichts.

https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/F/Feil_Georg/Synth_Sample.sid&subtune=1

Anybody experiencing hangs of the user interface in GNOME 48 RC2 on Debian trixie testing/unstable sid unstable?
Most of the time some Ctrl-Alt-F1 Ctr-Alt-F2 switching fixes it, but I just had a complete unrecoverable hang (at least not without ssh-ing into the machine), even though Shift Lock was still working, so it does not appear like the kernel had crashed. AMD Ryzen integraded Radeon GPU, Mesa 24.3.4, Linux kernel 6.13.

basic 64 by de la Mancha x86 VSTI Windows No longer available Free Download

basic 64 is inspired by the 8 bit

https://music-society.de/basic-64-by-de-la-mancha-x86-vsti-windows-no-longer-available-free-download/vsti/musicus/

HVSC (High Voltage SID Collection):
https://www.hvsc.c64.org/

I use this collection for many years now, and it still gets updated. To play the SID files I currently use ZXTune:
https://zxtune.bitbucket.io/

One of the earliest speech synthesizers, SAM (Reciter) was created in 1982 for the Commodore 64 8-bit computer.

I had lots of fun with it as a kid. Here's an online version:

https://discordier.github.io/sam

Today is Safer Internet Day!
https://www.saferinternetday.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_safety
#SaferInternetDay #SID2025 #SID #TalkListenLearn

for #SID we at #EUKidsOnline are launching the report on David Smahel and his colleagues study on the impact of tech on teens' #wellbeing. The findings challenge the notion of a uniform effect of technology on adolescents: #socialmedia can be both beneficial and harmful depending on the context of its use. Adolescents also differ in their capacity to manage online experiences. https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/127158/

Study reveals how $RNA travels between cells to control #genes across #generations

#dsRNA #SID-1 #sdg-1 #jumpinggenes #epigenetic #C_elegans

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-reveals-rna-cells-genes-generations.html

I wrote a short blog post about a simple comparison of different #Commodore #SID solutions, especially for filters and aliasing (#C64 and #C128): http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=varie/sidcmp/sidcmp.inc Many thanks to @hkz who sent the ARMSID recordings. I may add the SwinSID in the 8580 mode and the VICE emulating the 6581 too in a next future. #retrocomputing

"Just in time for the holidays, #HVSC Update #82 brings #SID enthusiasts the perfect gift: 582 new SID files to enjoy and 41 fixed SIDs to rekindle nostalgia!"

Download: https://www.hvsc.c64.org/downloads

Release notes: https://www.hvsc.c64.org/download/files/news/20241222.txt