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goto80
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 138 |
timeline of SID achievements
I'm looking for a timeline of SID achievements. Does this exist? A list of important software (trackers and non-trackers, midi-sequencers and midi-slaves, sample-players and "drum machines", generatives, remix-tools, etc) and SID-tricks (playing digi-stuff, multispeed, hardrestart, etc). Who, where, when, how, why. I think a timeline over these things would be important to put together, if it doesn't already exist.
(I work on a timeline of chip music in general here: chipflip.wordpress.com/timeline. It is far from finished, of course. Suggestions are very welcome)
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McMeatLoaf
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 108 |
Regarding pulse-width, when were the first tunes made that utilized pulse-width-modulation? The earliest examples that I can find are from 1983 (several). |
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
Mcloaf: dont ask.. investigate! :D |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1648 |
@Jan: Yes.. The music routine in Turbo Outrun has two different digi volumes to chose from. Something like full volume and half volume, or so. At least that is how I remember it from when I had a peek into that routine some day quite a while a go. It might have been 100%, 50%, and 25% too. In any case, the volume change was achieved by some simple shifting/division by 2 and so forth. No scaling or more sophisticated sorts. The routine in Outrun Europe was similar, but that came after of course. |
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McMeatLoaf
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 108 |
Quote: Mcloaf: dont ask.. investigate! :D
GAMES/A-F/Artillery_Duel.sid #2
MUSICIANS/G/Gibson_Tony/Jammin.sid
MUSICIANS/W/Whittaker_David/Punchy.sid
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
Nice mcloaf.
but i dont think we will be able to finish such an article sum it up, for the next VN mag.
at least, i simply have very limited time atm.
i think its a project to do after the X party, and finish before new year eve.
as we go deeper, more and more pop up, so if it should be made properly, it should be done over a longer period.
if you just use this thread as a wall to dump all found info into, thats good - more will pop up before we try to form a usable document from it all. |
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