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vincenzo
Registered: Sep 2003 Posts: 79 |
The C64 Grand Tour Challenge
Hey everyone,
I wanted a new year challenge for 2021. The idea is to compose 1 music per each month of the year. Yeah, it's nothing special, right?
So to spice it up, each month I'm going to use a different editor/player.
Now it sounds like some nice fun that I don't want to keep for myself only.
Composers, join me!
List of editors and rules to follow:
Jan: GMC V2 (GMC V2 (Unfinished))
Feb: SID Factory 2 (PC) (https://blog.chordian.net/sf2/ build 20200911)
Mar: Ninja Tracker 2.04 (C64) (NinjaTracker V2.04)
Apr: Defmon (C64) (defMON V20201008)
May: Goat Tracker 2.75 (PC) (GoatTracker V2.75)
Jun: DMC 7 (C64) (DMC 7.0)
Jul: Virtuoso 1.02 (C64) (Virtuoso V1.02)
Aug: X-SID (C64) (X-SID)
Sep: Cheesecutter 2.9.0 (PC) (CheeseCutter 2.9.0)
Oct: Sosperec 1.0 (C64) (Sosperec Editor V1.0)
Nov: SDI 2.17 (C64) (SID Duzz' It V2.1.7)
Dec: SID-Wizard 1.8 (C64) (SID-Wizard V1.8)
Rules:
- Use the linked version of the actual editor only (compatibility)
- 1 SID, 1x speed only
- Track length: please keep it within the usual limits. Not too short, not too long, make it as long as a regular composition would be.
- 1 track per month with the specified tool
- If the editor saves to a format where player is included, use address $1000
- Deadline: last day of the actual month, at midnight
- Send your projectfiles to: strayboom()gmail()com
I don't plan voting, this supposed to be a motivational-fun-self-challenge only. Do it for your own good or don't do it at all. Still, there will be a progress bar with the completed entries.
If there's enough tracks, I'll make a compilation in a form of musicdisk or music mix, etc.
There might be a huuuuuge - or small - C64 musicdisk release of all tracks at the end of the year/early next year. We'll see.
Sincerely,
vincenzo /Lethargy^Singular^SIDRIP^Rebels^Molecoola |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002 Posts: 2856 |
Yes, same reason why i kept in the work-arounds.
Maybe Sparkle should also come with a nag message once it has detected those firmware issues.
I have it on good authority that Gideon became aware of similar 1541U2 issues (same emulation bugs after a regression) only after that message popped up at various occasions and people started to report.
(But then at least one person said "but i did run the latest firmware, and it still loads, so somebody goofed up with that check routine". Oh my, can't expect everyone to have working logic circuits in their brains.) |
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Ninja
Registered: Jan 2002 Posts: 407 |
Full illegal opcode support for the 1541U was the reason I did 1541-Testsuite 13 years ago. It already identified problems back then, but Gideon was prioritizing other features first. Maybe now it is the time? (Note to self: I should update the entry to at least fix the links) |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001 Posts: 11154 |
And your testbench has been integrated into the VICE testsuite for many years - which i am running against U64 (and thus U2) after every firmware release and report back bugs. Lets say the process has become increasingly difficult and i lost a bit motivation to even care. (It is obviously much more interesting to add more fancy features than hunting those last few tricky bugs). |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002 Posts: 2856 |
Let's just make a game that everybody and their dogs want to play, and put things all over the place that require correct emulation. =) |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001 Posts: 11154 |
I can already hear the whining about it not working in VICE 2.4 :=) |
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vincenzo
Registered: Sep 2003 Posts: 79 |
Guys, this supposed to be a thread about music and the conversation steered into a very different territory. It might make more sense to open another thread with the 1541U and related loader issues. |
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