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El Topo
Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 43 |
SIDedit on Linux
I tried to install and run SIDedit on Trisquel Linux 9.0 (Ubuntu knock-off) last night. Easy I thought, Perl runs everywhere. This was wrong, I ran into a wall when the script started throwing errors about variables that had to be initialized.
Is there any hope of this code seeing an update or should I shell out and buy new hardware and a Big Boy OS? :) |
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El Topo
Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 43 |
Are there any alternatives to this program by the way? It's hard to search for, to many false positives. |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1627 |
What is it that you want to do, more specifically?
If a file already has a psid header, modifying it in a hex editor is doable. Adding a psid header (using an assembler, for example) isn't super difficult either, but it all depends on whether you know how to use an assembler etc.
If you want to modify the psid header in a hex editor, you can find the offsets to where various pieces of information is stored in the header here:
https://fossies.org/linux/vice/src/hvsc/psid.h |
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El Topo
Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 43 |
I found some Voicetracker 4 songs on a floppy from the early 90's that I thought could be fun to make SIDs of. I don't know who made them so they might already be in HVSC.
I guess I could ask someone who have a working SIDedit if they want them. |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3132 |
How about writing us sending the suspect tunes?
hvsc@c64.org
I would personally take care of them =)
Anyway you can attach a sid header with Prg2Sid V1.00 (see summaries https://csdb.dk/release/?id=175248&show=summary#summary)
and identify them with SID Known V1.20
(oh sorry, windows only) |
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spider-j
Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 445 |
I use a shell script and acme assembler to i.e. convert Ninja Tracker PRGs to SID files and psid64 executables.
Maybe you can change it to your needs.
makesid.sh:
#!/bin/sh
# check if acme and psid64 are available
command -v acme >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "[ERROR] acme not installed or not in PATH variable."; exit 1; }
command -v psid64 >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "[ERROR] psid64 not installed or not in PATH variable."; exit 1; }
if [ "$#" -ge 1 ] && [ "$#" -le 2 ]
then
INFILE=$1
if [ "$#" -eq 1 ]
then
TITLE=untitled
elif [ "$#" -eq 2 ]
then
TITLE=$2
fi
YEAR=`echo $(date +'%Y')`
OUTFILE=`printf "$TITLE" | tr -s ' ' | tr ' ' '_' && printf ".sid"`
echo "collecting data..."
head -c 2 "$INFILE" >> initAddress
printf "$TITLE" >> songTitle
printf "Spider Jerusalem" >> songAuthor
#printf "$YEAR Mayday!" >> songReleased
printf "$YEAR Spider Jerusalem" >> songReleased
cp -v "$INFILE" songData
echo "compile sid file with acme crosass..."
acme -v4 -f plain -o "../sid/$OUTFILE" psidheader.asm
echo "building c64 executable with psid64..."
psid64 -c -t blue -p "/home/spider/C64/tools/sidplay26w/sidid.cfg" -v -o "../psid64/" "../sid/$OUTFILE"
echo "removing data files..."
rm -v initAddress
rm -v songTitle
rm -v songAuthor
rm -v songReleased
rm -v songData
else
echo "[ERROR] parameter error."
echo "correct usage:"
echo "./makesid.sh FILENAME \"SONGTITLE\""
echo "ATTENTION: if no title is given"
echo "the title and output filenames will default to:"
echo " untitled.sid / untitled.prg "
echo "old files with those names will be overwritten!!!"
exit 1;
fi
psidheader.asm
; --------- SID File Format Headerdata
*=$00
; PSID Header
!byte $50, $53, $49, $44
*=$04
; version: PSID v2NG
!byte $00, $02
*=$06
; dataOffset
!byte $00, $7c
*=$08
; loadAddress ( = $0000 in PSID)
!byte $00, $00
*=$0a
; initAddress ( get from file )
!bin "initAddress",1,1
!bin "initAddress",1,0
*=$0c
; playAddress ( lowbyte = $03, highbyte from initAdress file )
!bin "initAddress",1,1
!byte $03
*=$0e
; songs ( number of songs = 1 )
!byte $00, $01
*=$10
; startSong
!byte $00, $01
*=$12
; speed ( 0 for VIC irq )
!byte $00, $00, $00, $00
*=$16
; <title>
!bin "songTitle"
*=$35
!byte $00
*=$36
; <author>
!bin "songAuthor"
*=$55
!byte $00
*=$56
; <released>
!bin "songReleased"
*=$75
!byte $00
*=$76
; flags ( $24 for PAL, 8580 )
!byte $00, $24
*=$7c
; <data>
!bin "songData"
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El Topo
Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 43 |
Thanks for your replies iAN CooG and spider-j. The script might come in handy once I wrap my head around this SID stuff. For now I think I'll send the tunes to HVSC and let people that know what they're doing look at them :) |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3132 |
Thanks for the sending, 4 missing tunes by Trident were safely rescued from the disk, rest are barely identified (some blocks of good data between bad sectors) or known ones. |
