Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!kentsu
From: kentsu@microsoft.UUCP (Kent SULLIVAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Basic Music for c64
Message-ID: <59708@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 90 18:38:03 GMT
References: <602@organpipe.UUCP> <36509@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <36509@cup.portal.com>, Michelle@cup.portal.com (TRACY M WIRS) writes:
> Hi..... I intend to give a listen to that as soon as 
> I'm offline......  but a suggestion for you:
> 
> See if you can find an old copy of COMPUTE!'s Music book/disk 
> packages for the C64/128.  One of them is what I have:  THE 
> COMPLETE 64, which has the UNenhanced SID program in it as well as
> a prg. for turning your 
> SIDs into BASIC, I believe (I'll look it up again and make sure 'bout that)
> This way is probably easier to do than trying to do it in BASIC on 
> your own.
> 
> Good luck & Have fun!
> 
> Michelle@cup.portal.com   <Internet>
> sun!cup.portal.com!Michelle  <UUCP>

The current Sidplayer package is "Compute!'s Music System for the Commodore 128
and 64: The Enhanced Sidplayer", by Craig Chamberlain.  Retail price for this
book/disk combo is $24.95.

The original Sidplayer was published in "All About the Commodore 64, Vol. 2",
also by Craig Chamberlain.  This book is now out of print.

Both Sidplayer packages come with Sidplayer "drivers" which allow you to play
Sidplayer tunes in your BASIC programs.

You might also want to check out a program that Chris Newman wrote that was
published in RUN (October '90, I think) called SID BASIC.  This is a wedge to
C-64 BASIC which adds 5 of the 6 C-128 BASIC 7.0 music commands (all but SOUND)
to the C-64.