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11-20-2009

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Originally Posted by Neo

Not for me.... .I wrote an entire geo-triangulation, distance and bearing (direction) program on the C64 (in Basic) that we used when we downloaded coordinates from our survey gear.

Very creative use of it. How did you get over the I/O hurdle? I never did find working instructions for saving BASIC programs to disk; lots that didn't work, but none that did, and none that even explained what they were even trying to do... It stymied me for years. It's only now, with access to the modern internet, that I've found out why files on the Commodore were so strange: Disk I/O was neither raw, nor handled by the BIOS, Commodore had it's own unique solution. Drives were their own self-contained computers that communicated with the C64 in a weird and proprietary mini-language that was passed to it from BASIC I/O statements nearly raw.

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sid2wav

sid2wav(1)							   User Commands							sid2wav(1)

NAME

       sid2wav - output wav files out of sid files

SYNOPSIS

       sid2wav [-commands] <datafile>|- [outputfile]

DESCRIPTION

       Sid2wav	is  a  synthetic waveform generator from sid files, named after the Sound Interface Chip found in Commodore 64 personal computers.
       With this tool, one can 'convert' sid files to wav ones that popular music players like XMMS can play. Note that you don't have to  convert
       sid files just to listen them, sidplay can play it for you just as it would sound on a real C64. Also, XMMS has an input plugin to play sid
       files directly. The use is that you may convert sid tunes to wav and later to any compressed format like Ogg or MP3 for users lacking  sid-
       play. Other use would be to convert files to wav for audio CD creation.

COMMANDS

       -h     gives help on usage.

       -f<num>
	      set frequency in Hz (default: 44100).

       -16    16-bit (default: 8-bit)

       -s     stereo (default: mono).

       -ss    enable stereo surround.

       -u     au output (8000Hz mono 8-bit u-law).

       -o<num>
	      set song number (default: preset).

       -a     improve PlaySID compatibility (not recommended).

       -a2    transparent ROM memory mode (overrides -a).

       -n     enable NTSC-clock speed for VBI tunes (not recommended).

       -nf    no SID filter emulation.

       -ns    MOS 8580 waveforms (default: MOS 6581).

       -m<num>
	      mute voices out of 1,2,3,4 (default: none).  Example: -m13 (voices 1 and 3 off).

       -t<num>
	      set seconds to play (default: 60).

       -b<num>
	      skip first <num> seconds into the song (default: 0).

       -fin<num>
	      fade-in time in seconds (default: 0).

       -fout<num>
	      fade-out time in seconds (default: 2).

SEE ALSO

       sidplay(1), xmms (1).

AUTHORS

       Michael Schwendt <sidplay@geocities.com>
       Adam Lorentzon	<d93-alo@nada.kth.se>

       This manpage was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system by Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi <gcs@lsc.hu> (but may be used by others).

Sidplay 							     May, 2004								sid2wav(1)