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Title: SidAmp
Post by: Clyde on December 27, 2009

Here's a neat plugin for WinAmp to be able to play those cool C64 SID tunes, extract the download into your plugins directory and voila :)

PS. this is abandonware. it works with the latest win amp version too.

http://www.bunnzy.org/applications/winamp-plugin-sidamp-v134

if you know of a better plugin for sid tunes in winamp, please post it up, as this one only lets you play the default track from the sid file of your choosing.

Title: Re: SidAmp
Post by: Hotshot on December 27, 2009

thank you Clyde as I am big C64 Fan of music :)

Title: Re: SidAmp
Post by: Moroboshisan on December 28, 2009

Quote from: Clyde Radcliffe on December 27, 2009

if you know of a better plugin for sid tunes in winamp, please post it up, as this one only lets you play the default track from the sid file of your choosing.

AFAIK there aren't other (working) plugins to play SID tunes in winamp...

if you just need to listen to your favourite tunes you may try http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=76056 which is just one of the best player around (old version http://www.gsldata.se/c64/spw/sp2w.zip).
Other alternatives should be represented by http://sidtool.demodungeon.com/index.php?f=download or http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html with the SID plugin related extension you'll fin here http://dhost.info/pieknyman/html/plugins.html

Assuming that you are using Vice emulator, one of the best way to listen to SIDs (without messing with the real hardware) tunes should be as simple as creating a batch file with the following text:

"C:\Program Files\WinVICE-2.2\x64.exe" -sidengine 256 -sidfilters -keepenv -vsid %1|exit

(please adjust the "path" to your current Vice directory) then save it, wherever you like, as a .BAT file (i created a simple icon onto my desktop with the name vsid.bat)... from now on you should be able to listen to your favourites music just dragging-n-dropping .SID files (HVSC v52 has just released a couple of days ago) onto the batch file; this would activate the VSID interface (you can control which subtune for that particular SID simply pressing left/right cursor keys).

Happy listening!  ;D

Title: Re: SidAmp
Post by: Clyde on January 01, 2010

Cheers dude :)
the dhost link no longer works.

Title: Re: SidAmp
Post by: Moroboshisan on January 02, 2010

Quote from: Clyde Radcliffe on January 01, 2010

Cheers dude :)
the dhost link no longer works.

(I guess that)they disabled direct linking... so I updated the link a step backward.
Refer to un4seen.com for more plugins.

^_^

Title: Re: SidAmp
Post by: Clyde on January 03, 2010

Very smart, i am torn between Sid Play 2.5 w/ and XM Play.
this is pretty cool info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_SID