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From: ejf@nvuxl.UUCP (Ed Flaherty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Looking for Sid Editor
Keywords: Sid Editor, Compute!
Message-ID: <786@nvuxl.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 19:36:09 GMT
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
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Does anybody know how I can get a copy of Compute's Sid Editor,
or for that matter any other editor to compile music into the
SidPlayer (.mus) format?  I haven't found anything in Qlink to
make sid files (scads of players, but no editors).  Also haven't 
found anything in Milton or Tolsun.  Qlink gives an 800 number
for Compute books to order something called "Compute!'s Music
System for the Commodore 128 and 64," but I tried this number
and it's been taken out of service.  It's very hard to find
C64 books anywhere any more.

If the Sid Editor is no longer available, I would settle for a
description of the semantics of its three-letter opcodes (e.g.,
RES, AUT, P-S, F-S).  Qlink has a couple of files that discuss
the syntax of these opcodes, but in most cases give no clue as to
what they do.  Some of them I have been able to figure out for
myself (e.g., HED and TAL seem to define the beginning and end of 
a loop), but others (AUT, POR, RES, ...) I can't make any sense of.

It seems obvious to me that Qlink does not allow Sid Editors to be
posted, in order to force you to buy Compute's product.  But it
seems a little ridiculous to be so paranoid now that the number
of Commodore 8-bit users has dwindled down to us diehards.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Ed Flaherty
Bellcore