Flummi's World Music
Flummi's World Music is a music demo from Matthias and Sebastian from the group The Impirium Arts. In the menu you can choose the music from the game Fliummi's World: Intro, Title, End, Loading, Hi-Score, Get Ready, Game over and Ingame + Effects.
Flummi's World on YouTube.
Flummi's World on YouTube.
Infernal Cycle - C64
Infernal Cycle is a new music program for the Commodore C64. The program is made by LDX#40. This program is a synthesizer noise generator and can be controlled with a joystick. LDX#40 used this program at Bended Realities Festival in Offenbach.
Bended Realities Festival (Offenbach).
Bended Realities Festival (Offenbach).
SID Duzz' It v2.1.6
SDI is a music tracker system for the Commodore 64 and is written by Geir Tjelta and Glenn Rune Gallefoss. The system has the following features: Sequencer, tracker and a sound editor. Load, save and dump menu. DOS commands. Vibrato, pulse, filter, arpeggio and tempo. A very comprehensive (English) manual is available.
Paula Agnus Denise
Paula Agnus Denise is a compilation of the best music from Amiga and CD32 video games. The album contains 19 re-mastered tracks, a few examples are: Hired Guns, Turrican 3, Alien Breed, Pinball Dreams, Battle Squadron, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Project-X and Brutal Deluxe. The album is available as download or CD.
HVTC
The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. At the moment there are 330 files available in the database.
ACID 64 Player Pro v3.4
Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: The property dialog (SID info) can now stay open. Folder / file refresh with F5. CTRL-A for all text search boxes. CTRL-H is now used for Author search. UNC paths are now handled correctly and other small improvements.
DefleMask
DefleMask is a Multi-System music tracker for producing music for many sound chips and old school systems. The system uses real-time emulation, it has an FM instruments editor, Envelopes editor and a Wavetable instruments editor. DefleMask can produce files for SEGA, Nintendo, NEC PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16 and the Commodore 64.
AmigaAMP 3.5 - AmigaOS 4
Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: TuneNet Plugin support. AmigaAmp now uses faad.library instead of the built in AAC decoder. And the problem with automatic opening of the playlist is now solved.
C64.sk Cover Compo #2
You can now see the names of the authors of the SID's from the C64.sk Cover Compo #2. For all the SID's you can now download the original files and complete credits.
For the voting result and comment you can visit the CSDB website.
For the voting result and comment you can visit the CSDB website.
Retro Asylum Podcast: Amiga games
The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about games for the Amiga. Swanny tells about music from Amiga games, including music from Dave Lowe, Jason Page, Barry Leitch, Jolyon Myers and others.
Retro Asylum Podcast: Oi Ay, SID Want's a Word!
The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about the Commodore C64 SID chip. Matt digs deeper into the sounds of the SID chip to give you tunes you might not have heard before along with some chat about the chip itself including some technical details.
Samar Music Disc
This year Samar celebrates its 20th anniversary and they want to issue a music disc. And everybody can contribute to the music disc. The rules: No limitation in number of musics per musician. Music at: $1000 - $3000, 4x play tunes also accepted. No digi tunes.
AmigaRemix
You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: FlashBack (Options Remix, Monday (G3D Extended Remix), Onslaught (daXX Remix), GODS (ChillStep), Big Run (daXX Remix), Zillion-2 (Mankind's hope will rise again), Monday (Vroom crack intro), Ghouls'n'Ghosts (Your Hometown Burns In Hell), Test Drive II Remix, Odyssey Part I and Echoing (Steissbein Mix).
ACID 64 Player Pro v3.3
Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Emulation improvements. COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer support (MUS file, including stereo files). Improved speed of identifying players. STIL window state is now preserved. Added "search by this author/publisher/group" feature. Added triple click support on the search box to select all text. Second SID device settings for HardSID 4U and HardSID Quattro devices are now stored correctly.
Retro Asylum Podcast: Top ten Commodore 64 games
The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about games for the Commodore C64. Foggy tells about his personal top 10 of C64 games from the year 1983.
welle: erdball - Computerklang
You can now watch the official video of welle: erdball - Computerklang. In the video you will see lots of Commodore equipment: the Commodore CBM 8032, a C128 motherboard with a very special text, the C2N Datassette, the 1541 and 8250 disk drive and the Commodore 64.
The web page of welle: erdball.
The web page of welle: erdball.
Top 50 - Crack Intro Music Competition 2013
You can listen to the top 50 songs from the Crack Intro Music Competition 2013. The rules of this competition were: Maximum playtime 1:00 min and a maximum size: $1000 bytes. The Top 5: Retrospectful (DRAX), Introduction to Crack (DRAX), 3 Y-Lax-It (celticdesign), Don't Fuck With Stevie Wonder (Jammer) and Delusional (DRAX).
The results of the Crack Intro Music Competition 2013.
The results of the Crack Intro Music Competition 2013.
AmigaRemix
You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: 3D Galax 2013, Turrican Traps, Platoon (E/Rock 2013), Jumping Jackson, Hulk Hogan Hymne - Real American, Turrican 2 Title, RSI Megademo - Loader, Turrican title, Stormlord ingame, RSI Megademo, GODS Into the wonderfull, Stormlord (intro) and Battle Squadron ingame.
BitJam #166
In this BitJam podcast music from the HVSC. You can listen to the following music: Ghosts ’n Goblins, The Great Giana Sisters, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Crazy Comets, Arkanoid, Knucklebusters, Mutants, Last Ninja 2, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Last Ninja 3, Cybernoid, Monty On The Run, Delta, Cybernoid II, International Karate, Commando, Sanxion, The Last Ninja and Wizball. Total playing time: 1:45:37.
Retro Asylum Podcast: Early Video Game Advertising
The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about the advertising of the game computers in de eighties. Foggy takes us back to the age of the Atari VCS, Mattel Intelvision Commodore VIC-20 etc.
C64.sk Cover Compo #2
The web page C64.sk organises another SID cover competition. Your SID must be based on exciting music you can hear on the radio, or can buy in a shop. The SID will be available on the web page, but it will be anonymous. Later the voting will start.
HVSC #58
There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 43.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 906 new SIDs, 185 fixed/better rips, 971 SID credit fixes, 111 SID model/clock infos, 27 tunes identified and 47 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.
SID Known v1.05
SID Known v1.05
AmigaRemix
You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Hero Quest, Turrican I Intro 2nd Try, RSI Megademo - Ba1, Boot Up, Pinball Dreams, B.A.T II - The Koshan Conspiracy, Turrican II - The Final Challenge, Turrican II Freedom, The Four Seasons Remix, Moby's Sea of Love remix, The Lost Patrol and Turrican II Intro 2nd Try.
BitJam #164
In this BitJam podcast music from Allister Brimble. You can listen to the following music: Superfrog, Alien Breed, Zeewolf, Assassin, Everywhere and Everything, Project X, Body Blows, Silicon Heaven, Arcade Classics and Alien Breed - Tower Assault. Total playing time: 49:20.
Ultimate Audio MOD Player
Freshness released a new program for the 1541 Ultimate. The program can be used for playing audio MOD files with your 1541 Ultimate. The MOD file system was developed by Karsten Obarski in 1987 for tracker software on the Amiga computer.
BitJam #161
This BitJam podcast is a tribute to the Giana Sisters game. You can listen to music from Chris Huelsbeck, Machinae Supremacy, Fabian Del Priore, X-FormZ, Sonic Wanderer, Reptile and Sky, Makke, Galantine and Christian Vestergaard. Total playing time: 45:12.
CGSC v1.23
The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 12483 MUS, 3705 STR and 4461 WDS files.
Player Identifier v1.00
Wilfred Bos released a new program, that can identify SID players. Player Identifier is inspired by the SIDId tool written by Cadaver of Covert Bitops. Player Identifier makes use of all available cores of the CPU and uses the BNDM search algorithm to search through SID files very quickly.
AmigaRemix
You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Odyssus Returns, Shadow of The Geek, Black Lamp, Jupiter’s Masterdrive, Signia, Weird Dreams, M1 Tank Platoon, Turrican, Darkmere, Dylan Dog and many versions of Spiral Hands On III.
Essex-Rockon - Plus/4
TLT (Tron Lamer Team) has made a new music demo. The demo can be used on a PAL version of the Commodore Plus/4 or an emulator like YAPE or VICE. The demo can be downloaded from the Commodore Plus/4 World web page.
Another music demo from TLT: BCK-Kedvence.
Another music demo from TLT: BCK-Kedvence.
AmigaRemix
You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Hybris speedy chef remix, Hybris (Time out Remix), Odyssey Part 5 New Trance Mix, Altered Beast: Heaven on Earth, Rastaman with a banjoman, Amberstar - Mysty Orc Fanfares, Elvira's Garden - Solfeggio Acoustic Remix, A Prehistoric Tale: Fall into prehistoric, Cannon Fodder - Of Blood And Honor, Seven Gates of Jambala: Assemble the magic staff (The right colour sequence mix), Turrican (Title 3) - Shoot Or Die!, Shadow of the Beast (daXX 2012 Remix), Echoing (SID EMULATED MIX), Odyssey Megademo Part 5 NEWMIX, Elvira / Demon Blue (High Scores) short remix, Dylan Dog - The Murderers, Sly Spy (amiga intro), Pinball Illusions Intro, Turrican 3 Intro(Badliz Remix), Rollerball – Remix, Arabian Nights: Arabia (loop) and Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.
The Early Morning Computer Programming Blues
Anne Delong wrote a song in 1984 about the "early morning computer programming blues". After many years she decided to record the song an put it on YouTube. You will see her original computer system in the video: A Commodore PET 4032, a CN2 datassette and a 2031 disk drive.
BitJam #159
This BitJam podcast is from Yerzmyey, with 8-channel tunes for the Amiga, all recorded from original hardware. You can listen to the following music: Critical Density, GeoCosmos, Interdimensional Crusader, RetroBeat, Into Aphelium, From Desert to Forest, Arcane Zone and Time Machine. Total playing time: 31:17.
BitJam #157
The most recent BitJam podcast is a Psygnosis edition. In this BitJam the following music: Menace, Blood Money, Shadow of the Beast, Anarchy, Awesome, Shadow of the Beast 2, The Killing Game Show, Leander, Lemmings, Agony, Aquaventura, Bill's Tomato Game, The Carl Lewis Challenge, Ork, Shadow of the Beast 3, Globdule, Lemmings 2, Theatre of Death, Benefactor, Microcosm, Puggsy, G2 and SuperHero. Total playing time: 1:55:42 minutes.
MIDIbox aSIDity
Sauraen and Oikanys are working on the MIDIbox aSIDity project. This project will be the most powerful SID-based synthesizer in the world. The system will have 8 Commodore 64 SID sound chips (4 x 6581 and 4 x 8580) 160 modulators and many control options. At the moment they have completed the feedback system, build with an LM1973 (digital volume control) and an op-amp (3x gain). The controls are: Feedback, Cut-off, Resonance, Pulse width and Release time. You can watch the demonstration on YouTube.
TedPlay V1.2.2
TedPlay is a Commodore 264 family music player for the PC. The program supports the following formats: PRG, PSID/RSID and C8M, a new versatile 8-bit computer music file format. Changes in this version: The elapsed playing time is now visible. Additional info on the PSID tunes is shown in the play list window and a couple of bugfixes.
Venerable Moon - C64 SID
Venerable Moon is an new SID for the Commodore C64. The demo was released at the Sundown 2012 meeting and reached the second place in the mixed music competition. The music is made by Stinsen.
More music from Stinsen.
More music from Stinsen.
Pocket SID Audio Player
Jeff Ledger developed a pocket size SID music player. The SID player uses a Parallax Propeller microcontroller and a SD card to read and play the SID music. He made a manual on how to construct the hardware and you can also download the necessary software for the Pocket SID Audio Player.
SID-Wizard v1.0
SID-Wizard is a Commodore 64 music tracker made by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath). Changes in this version: Idle-graphic for improved reading of value boundaries. Blinking playback positions. Extended relocation range. And many bug fixes. The program including source code and manual can be downloaded from the Commodore Scene Database web page.
Tiny'R'Sid
Jürgen Wothke developed a flash based RSID music player. With this player you can listen online to your favourite SID music. The SID emulation logic is based on the TinySid code by T. Hinrichs and R. Sinsch. The player can play most PSID and RSID files, but is not 100% compatible with the real hardware. You can listen to many SIDs on Jürgen's web page.
Neotunes 2 Light
The group Arsenic released a music collection at the Bunkerparty 2012. The collection has the following SID's: Batmania II , Big Fun Mix, Bongo Mongo, Cinema, Coma Light '87, Contest Demo (part 1), Cooler Can't Be (v2), Cooperation Demo, Ending, FAME (1) (Mixed Up), Mean Streak, The Last Starfighter, Toysoldiers, TrailMix (intro), Ultraefficient, Violation #3 (tune 9) and When They Came Back for Me.
AmigaRemix
You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Steeve.b (PETER W RMX, Psychedelic (1), Chromag - Switchback (Virgill Hively rmx), Colonization (Bonny Morn Remix), Xenon 2 (daXX step 2 dub Remix), Pool Of Radiance Orchestral Remix, Zylon / Fraxion Remix, Samplemixer - Angels Intro Remix, Amberstar #11 - Ode to Schnism, R-Type Title, Wrath Of The Demon Title Remix, Double Dragon - We Are the Dragons and Curse Of The Azure Bonds.
C64 Take-away podcast #051
In this podcast you can hear the following music: Johannes Bjerregaard - Shape, Steve Rowlands - Fuzzy Wuzzy, LMan - Shape, Steve Rowlands - Creatures 2, Press Play On Tape - Nonterraqueous, Jammer - Mr. Marvellous, Trace - Way of the Exploding Fist, Hermitsoft - Platoon acoustica, Amok - Maniac Mansion Theme, daXX - Commando and DJ Skitz + Mordi - Trick Bag. There is also news about: 1541 Ultimate II, HVSC, DGA12, Home Computer CD, Jeri Ellsworth, Jack Tramiel, Jeff Minters and the Chipophone.
Retro Asylum Podcast: Rob Hubbard vs Ben Daglish!
The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish. The tunes in this podcast are: 720 Degrees, The Last Ninja, Cobra, Death Wish 3, Deflector, Commando, Thing on a spring, One man and his driod, Spellbound and Thunder cats.
TedPlay V1.2
TedPlay is a Commodore 264 family music player for the PC The program supports the following formats: PRG, PSID/RSID and C8M, a new versatile 8-bit computer music file format. Changes in this version: Many internal improvements. Selectable TED waveforms and tune auto-skip interval. Adjustable filter order, sample rate and buffer length (latency).
Icony - SID
Icony is a new stereo SID for the Commodore C64. The original music was made by Yogibear (Joachim Wijnhoven) for the PC. The C64 version is made by Conrad (Owen Crowley). The SID is specially written for the 8580 SID chip.
Parallax SID 6581 Tunes
Andymanone used an ET-BASE PX32 Developer Board to play SID tunes. This development board uses an Parallax 8Cog-Propeller CPU and a SD card to play Commodore C64 SID music. You can watch a demonstration video on YouTube.
C64 Bass Guitar
At the "Bay Area Maker Fair" in May 2012 Jeri Ellsworth showed a new project. She made an combination of a Commodore 64 and a bass guitar. In this video Jeri shows the inside of the device and explains how it works. The system includes a guitar, a C64 keyboard, an FPGA and a real SID chip.
SID-Wizard 1.0 RC
SID-WIZARD is a new Commodore 64 tracker. The program is made by Hermit and was released at the Arok Party 2012. This tracker is inspired on the well known trackers such as Goattracker, XSID, SDI and others but it also has many new and useful features.
Look at more projects from Hermit on his web page.
Look at more projects from Hermit on his web page.
Yogi's Tiny Remixes
Yogibear started a new web page for his collection of Commodore C64 remixes. A few examples of the remixes are: Advanced Space Battle, Afterburner, Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, Defender of the Crown Tune, Emilio Butragueno Futbol, Erebus, The Final Assault Tune, Final Synth Sample II, FlaschBier and many more.
