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Airfish
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Registered: Jun 2003
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Silly Question, sorry!
Hey y'all!
I'm sorry, I believe this is a silly question, please don't laugh, I'm pretty new in Commodore stuff and I really don't know it:
Why do I always find ".sid" files, when I'm looking for C64 music on the Internet?
I wanna have the music from the C64 game "AIRWOLF" on my PC and I wanted to download it from the net. But all I can find are .sid files and no one of my PC music players can play them. I asked some PC freaks, but they've never heard of this file format.
What is it and with which player can I use those files?
Are there any ".wav" or ".mid" files of the AIRWOLF-music?
Thanx!
Greetz, Airfish |
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zdzisek
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 33 |
Download Sidplay2/w:
Sidplay2/w
and enjoy C64 music. |
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hollowman
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 474 |
you are able to create an account and post here,
but cant google for +.sid +player ? interesting.. |
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CreaMD
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3048 |
Everyone is seeking for the best advices. When I was learning programing web pages I also sometimes bothered my brother Havran with silly questions although I could also easily find answers on web. |
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Stryyker
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 468 |
That's what brothers (+sisters) are for - annoy the hell out of them.
I do agree that people should learn the power of Google. |
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fade
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Registered: Mar 2002
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except in tasmania where you annoy the hell out of them while violating them :) |
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Airfish
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Posts: 4 |
Well, yes, I have downloaded a sidPlayer, but my PC always tries to open .sid files in RealPlayer, that doesn't work since RealPlayer is unable to read .sid and I can't open the file in the SidPlayer. How can I separate the file from RealPlayer and open it in SidPlayer?! |
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Stryyker
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 468 |
We have no idea of OS etc. XP atleast you have the option of right clicking > open with then find the exe of the sid player or choose program. You can always mess with file associations too, I guess all 95+ would be in explorer, folder options and somewhere in there (it isn't too hard) |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
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Or simply put a link to Sidplay2 on your desktop and drag'n'drop the sid files onto it. |
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Pater Pi
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Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 121 |
Or use sidplay2/w and use it's interface... |
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WVL
Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 896 |
As to the answer of WHY .sid exists :
1 - they are smaller then mp3's or wavs.
2 - THEY CAN STILL BE PLAYED ON A ORIGINAL C64!!!!
3 - we like to make it hard for non-sceners ;-) |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
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WVL wrote:
> 2 - THEY CAN STILL BE PLAYED ON A ORIGINAL C64!!!!
Er, mostly... yes. ;-)
Apart from the ones in HVSC with a _PSID.sid extension. They were in fact tailored to be played on poor resource computers with libsidplay1 based players.
But in the near future every _PSID.sid will have a C64 compatible counterpart as well, so the digi freax can enjoy those on a real C64 as well. |
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zdzisek
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Quote: WVL wrote:
> 2 - THEY CAN STILL BE PLAYED ON A ORIGINAL C64!!!!
Er, mostly... yes. ;-)
Apart from the ones in HVSC with a _PSID.sid extension. They were in fact tailored to be played on poor resource computers with libsidplay1 based players.
But in the near future every _PSID.sid will have a C64 compatible counterpart as well, so the digi freax can enjoy those on a real C64 as well.
There are also some tunes that are not PlaySID specific, work well under Sidplay2/w but refuse to work properly on a real C64. The number of them should considerably decrease after the forthcoming HVSC Update #36. :-) |
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Airfish
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Registered: Jun 2003
Posts: 4 |
I FIGURED IT!!!
The Airwolf music is playing now and I now how to operate the Player!!! I'm excited.
Thank y'all!
Airfish off./// |
