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2007-01-09 19:39

Madman

Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34

New SID frontend released !!

Hello fellow C64 freaks!

I just wanted to let you know that there is a new SID frontend available to the public now. It has features no other SID tool offers since today:

* Support Sidplay2/w for playback
* Support TinySID for playback
* Easy access to the entire High Voltage Sid Collection
* Easy single-click interface
* Songlength database support
* Continuous play to discover SIDs unknown to you
* Playlist support with ability to add certain subsongs
* Experimental sid2midi support (sid2midi.exe not included)
* Built in search function
* Build on .NET framework 2.0 (required)

Steppe from HVSC suggested i shall promote it here. So did i. Hope you like it.

http://sidtool.drool.de/

Regards,
Madman

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2007-02-16 14:04

Madman

Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34

Well, i made a fast and quick port of SIDtool so it can play Amiga .MODs and .XMs and .FTs
Maybe not the right place to post on a C64 site, but i thought someone might be interested.

2007-06-22 13:36

Domey
Account closed

Registered: Dec 2003
Posts: 8

Apparently the homepage is hacked at the moment.. :(

2007-06-22 17:27

Jakuchu
Account closed

Registered: May 2005
Posts: 3

Quote: Man, that's really a great idea. I'd second that!
Ian Coog is kinda right, the Sidtool basically is a souped up frontend for Sidplay2/w, with presently not enough features to really stick out from the crowd of sidtools, i.e. it can't do much more than what other external programs already offer at this time (Sidbace, Sidbrowser, SidDB).

What I really like is the seamless songlength integration with the ability to just start continuous play in any directory (ah, let's see what this Fanta guy has to offer apart from his usual smash hits... ;-) ) and just let it doodle in the background.

The playlist feature is very intuitive to use, despite using a proprietary format.

Now with added search functionality (which, by all means, should be extended to search for AUTHOR or RELEASED field) and probably wider support of all kinds of players we're really getting somewhere. Keep it up, Madman!

I'm only asking for one thing: Don't make it too bloated and complex, adding things here and there, patchwork style (IIRC Sidbrowser heavily suffered from this). I really like the "lightweight" and cleaned up feeling of this program and would appreciate if it stayed like that. ;-)

Sums it up pretty well, I like the continuous-feature which lets me just run the frontend in the background and do the work for me.

2007-06-29 19:31

Madman

Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34

Quote: Apparently the homepage is hacked at the moment.. :(

Yeah, it indeed is.
I dont feel like wasting my time with hosting the tool when there are evil people out there :)
Honestly, i dont have the time for such updates. Besides that i get a shitload of spam at the domain, and besides the Sidtool site i dont have any webpages online any more anyway.
So i will cancel my webhosting contract, save the money and spam, and upload the tool to csdb. I also sent the sourcecode to some guy at a german C64 forum, so it wont get lost.

Edit: Cant upload it, filesize exceeds limit

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