----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Piggot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:37 AM Subject: Announcement: New Software to be bundled with SID Interface > > Simon's SID player code emulates the 6510 CPU from the Commodore 64 and allows > the Sam to run in realtime C64 code to play music using the SID soundchip. It's > only taken Simon 11 days to write the emulator from scratch which a remarkable > achievement, and the player can cope with the vast majority of SID tunes and > code that we have tested using it.
Great work indeed!! What sort of amount of processing power is taken by the CPU emulator? > Simon has kindly allowed his SID Player code to be used on a new music disk to > accompany the SID Interface, and this will be sent out to existing SID Interface Well done Simon! > brief mention of 'SID' music files, and Simon is working on writing an article > explaining his design and (rather fast!) development of his SID Player for a > future article for Sam Revival. Now that's something to look forward to! > Colin. > ==== > Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam > Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ [Updated 31st March 2003] > Issue Four of "Sam Revival" Magazine Out Now ! >
