CBMl ~/0Щ@թբx FL S "1 ! ʽRwl L":*" ,P(2026),1 Ģ ǩ Jx  wЄȄLqU0>M0  KEY- BOARD, WHILE MORE ADVANCED SOFTWARE FROM COMPANIES LIKE TEINBERG TURNED THE 64 INTO A BASIC RECORDING STUDIO. NE DRAWBACK IS THAT THERE IS MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF INTERFACE AVAILABLE, & THEY ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH EACH OTHER OR THE SOFTWARE. NFFERENT ON EVERY MACHINE. S THEY ARE ANALOGUE RATHER THAN DIGITAL, EFFECTIVENESS CHANGES AS THE CHIP HEATS UP. S OFFICIAL LINE WAS THAT THE CHIPS COULD VARY BY AS MUCH AS 20% BETWEEN MACHINES & THAT IT WAS AN ACCEPTABLE MARGIN TO WORK WITHIN. OME GA THE (), TELLING YOU MORE ABOUT EACH TUNE, THE COMPOSER & IDENTIFYING WHICH TUNES ARE COVERS HERE ARE ALSO MANY FASCINATING BITS OF TRIVIA CONTAINED IN , CONTRIBUTED BY THE COMPOSERS THEMSELVES OR THE DEDICATED TEWAS DIFFERENT, MISSING SYNC & RING MOD FEATURES. OST DRAMATIC WAS THE EFFECT ON SAMPLES. HE NEW CHIP WAS QUIETER IN THAT IT SUPPRESSED VOLTAGE NOISE BETTER. HIS MEANT THAT SAMPLES SOUNDED VERY FAINT ON THE NEW CHIP, SO YOU HAD TO TURN UP THE VOLUME OE COLLECTIONS OF SETTINGS FOR THE REGISTERS. ACH OF THE 3 IS BUILT UP OF , WHICH CAN BE REPEATED OR TRANSPOSED. ACH IS A SERIES OF (E.G. 00 TO CHANGE TO 00, 08 FOR A NOTE OF DURATION 8 BEATS) & ( MIXES WITH VOCALS TO ORCHESTRAL INTERPRETATIONS, THERE ARE REMIXES OF EVERY SORT. 64 (WWW.REMIX64.COM) & ( REMIX.KWED.ORG MAINTAINED BY AN UND HOMSEN) CONTINUE TO BE THE SHOWCASE FOR AMAZING NEW TAKES ON OLD TUNES. (HE RECENT CONTROVERSY ACCENTUATES A NARROW RANGE OF FREQ- UENCIES, WHILE COMBINING & CREATES A FILTER, PASSING ONLY A NARROW RANGE OF FREQUENCIES (THE OPPOSITE OF ). HE LEVEL AFFECTS FILTER STRENGTH. HE TROUBLE IS, FILTERS ARE DITES APPEARED DEVOTED TO MUSIC, COMPOSERS & KEEPING THE SPIRIT OF ALIVE. MONG THE MOST SUCCESSFUL IS THE AT WWW.HVSC.C64.ORG, WHICH NOW CONTAINS OVER 30,000 FILES FROM GAMES & DEMOS. ORKING ALONGSIDE THE COLLECTION IS OVER PRODUCER IMBERLAKES USE OF A SAMPLED 64 TUNE IN A SONG FOR ELLY URTADO IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE SCENE STAYS TOGETHER, & HOW THE OUT OF DATE MACHINE STILL INFLUENCES MUSIC) OU CAN EVEN BUY REMIX S, MAINLY THANKS TO THE EFFORTS OF HRIS BBOTT.STYLE TO A SLEEKER OFF-WHITE) THERE WERE DIFFER- ENCES INSIDE. OST DRAMATIC WAS THE CHIP NO LONGER THE 6581 BUT A NEWER 8580 MODEL. HERE WERE ALSO CHANGES ON THE BOARD, MEANING YOU CANNOT PUT AN OLD INTO A 64 & VICE VERSA. VEN THE MANUAL  EAMS & THE FAMOUS (). S MUSICIANS STRETCHED THEM, NEW & UPDATED VERSIONS OF THESE TOOLS WOULD REGULARLY APPEAR. HE LANGUAGE OF ALL THE EDITORS IS SIMILAR. OU CREATE OR OR THESE ARE THASE COLLECTION, ALLOWING YOU TO PLAY A FROM A GAME & SEE A PICTURE OF THE COMPOSER. HERE ARE ALSO DEVOTED FANS REMIXING & RE-MAKING THEIR FAVOURITE TUNES USING NEW TECHNOLOGY & MUSICAL EQUIP. ROM STRAIGHTFORWARD COVERS TO MODERN- SOUNDING DANCE HIS ALSO BRINGS US NICELY TO A DISC- USSION ON FILTERS. FILTER IS A WAY OF ALTERING THE SOUND PASSED THRU IT, & THE 64 HAS 4 TYPES. MEANS ANYTHING BELOW THE SET FREQUENCY IS UNALTERED, ABOVE IT IS FILTERED. DOES THE OPPOSITE. VER MIGA DEMO FEATURING CONVERTED TUNES. HEN CAME LAY, A UTILITY FOR PLAYING INDIVIDUAL TUNES. HIS WAS LATER PORTED TO MANY DIFFERENT OPERATING SYSTEMS INCLUDING , S & . LTERNATIVES INCLUDE MP PLUG- IN FOR INAMP, & ELIPLAYER. EBSI! HRIS USED HIS EXPERIENCE IN STUDIO WORK TO CREATE , THE FIRST EVER REMIX . ORE HAVE FOLLOWED, ALONG WITH S PUBLISHED BY HRIS FOR OTHER ARTISTS. EYN UWEHAND, A FAMOUS COMPOSER HIMSELF, TACKLED ARTIN ALWAYS FAMOUS TUNES & MORE RECEN E OF THE RARER ITEMS TO LOOK OUT FOR IS OOG OUND RODUCER, WHICH CAME WITH ITS OWN SOFTWARE & NO LESS 4 PORTS. , N 1987, INTRODUCED A NEW MODEL THE 64. S WELL AS CHANGING THE OUTER CASE (FROM THE CLASSIC BREADBOX  MES & DEMOS ALLOW YOU TO ALTER THE FILTER, OR THEY DETECT WHICH MODEL OF CHIP IS BEING USED & ALTER THE SOUNDTRACK ACCORDINGLY. N TIME, EDITORS BECAME MORE COMPLEX WITH MORE COMMANDS. HESE INCLUDED TRACKERS LIKE , THE UTCH  AM, & MOST PLAYERS WILL DISPLAY THE TEXT AS A TUNE PLAYS. F YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT THE COMPOSERS LOOK LIKE, CHECK OUT COMPOSERS.C64.ORG FOR ETER ANDENS ARCHIVE OF PHOTO- GRAPHS & CHOICE OF THE BEST TUNES. ALSO LINKS UP WITH THE INCREDIBLE AMEB N YOUR MONITOR/ TO HEAR THEM. (HERE ARE WAYS ROUND THIS, INCLUDING A TECHNIQUE CALLED DIGIBOOST).HE 128 HAS A SIMILAR PROBLEM, IN THAT ACCESSING MULTIPLE WAVEFORMS ON THE SAME VOICE CAN CAUSE THE CHANNEL TO LOCK OR SOUND AT A VERY LOW VOLUME. #4, -4 & SO ON). VEN TODAY, NEW EDITORS ARE BEING WRITTEN. ECENT ADDITIONS INCLUDE THE BASED & THE EXCELLENT (). HEN THE COMMERCIAL LIFE OF THE 64 CAME TO A CLOSE, THE MUSIC LIVED ON. IRST CAME A CLEOCKS WERE POSSIBLE. NE PERTINENT EXAMPLE IS THE GAME BY ARTIN ALKER. S YOU PLAY YOU WILL HEAR DRIPPING WATER, ROARING FIRES, TICKING CLOCKS & MANY OTHER CLEVER SOUNDS. O START WITH, MANY PROGRAMMERS DID EVERYTHING MUSIC, CODE, GRAPHICS. H TO WRITE THEIR OWN TUNES & TO COVER REAL MUSIC. RAIG HAMBERLAIN WAS ALSO AN IMPORTANT NAME FOR ; IN A BOOK ON PROGRAMMING FROM OMPUTES AZETTE HE PUBLISHED THE LAYER FORMAT & THE EDITOR.OW IT BECAME EASIER FOR MUSIC FANS TO COVOO. S OWN OUND AMPLER, THE HIGH-QUALITY ICROVOX UNIT & THE ATEL AMPLER ALL ALLOWED YOU TO USE A MICROPHONE OR LINE INPUT TO SAMPLE SOUNDS INTO MEMORY & PLAY THEM BACK. YPICALLY ONLY A FEW SECONDS COULD BE CAPTURED DUE TO THE LIMITED MEMORY OF THASTER REGISTER, CAN BE UPDATED AS FAST AS THE SCREEN (50 OR 60Z DEPENDING ON THE BROADCAST STANDARD). O, THE EARLIEST MUSICIANS WROTE THEIR OWN PLAYER ROUTINES, ENTER- ING THE NOTE DATA IN AN ASSEMBLER & PLAYING IT BACK, EACH FRAME OF THE SCREENIC.CO.UK. NOTHER INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE 64 WAS SPEECH SYNTHESIS. S AGIC OICE & URRAH PEECH CARTRIDGE PLUGGED INTO THE EXPANSION PORT & THE AUDIO/VIDEO PORT (REMEMBER MENTIONED THE EXTERNAL INPUT) TO ALLRCUSSION. T WAS CREATED BY ANIACS OF OISE, FAMOUS FOR THEIR DEMO TUNES & LATER WORK ON MANY HIT GAMES. T FIRST, DEMOS JUST PLAYED THE MUSIC. ATER ROUTINES ALLOWED MUSIC TO FADE IN OR OUT, SO THE DEMO FADED IN OR OUT WITH IT. IMINGUROPE, THERE WAS A NEED FOR MORE MUSIC. HE FLEDGLING OMPUNET NETWORK SAW LOTS OF DEMOS FEATURING MUSIC RIPPED FROM GAMES, BUT NOW PEOPLE WANTED TO START COMPOSING THEIR OWN. LONG CAME UTILITIES LIKE & , ALLOWING MORE PEOPLE HEN ANOTHER TECHNIQUE BECAME AVAILABLE. HE NEW DIGITAL MUSIC FORMAT OF COMPACT DISCS GAVE PROGRAMMERS THE IDEA TO BREAK SOUNDS INTO BITS OF DATA. RAPID SERIES OF CLICKS & SILENCES CAN THEN RE-CREATE SOUNDS. HIS IS SAMP- LING, & THE CAN DO IT TS OF MUSIC LASTING MANY MINUTES WERE REQUIRED, OFTEN IN TECHNO STYLE. HILE THE 64 DID NOT CONTAIN A PORT LIKE THE TARI , INTERFACES SOON APPEARED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE. ROG- RAMS LIKE THE DVANCED USIC TUDIO CAN PLAYBACK OR RECORD FROM A  CONTROLLING WAS NEVER EASY. ITH 30 DIFFERENT REGISTERS (INCLUDING THE READ-ONLY SETTINGS) & MANY OF THEM DOING MULTIPLE TASKS, THERE HAD TO BE AN EASIER WAY. ACHINE CODE & THE DESIGN OF THE 64 OFFER AN EXCELLENT WAY TO REPRODUCE MUSIC. SING THE RTURE, READ THE LYRICS AS THE SONG PLAYED, & EVEN HEAR THE TUNE IN STEREO (WITH THE ADDITION OF A SECOND CHIP MORE ON THAT LATER) LAYER MUSIC IS STILL USED BY THE OADSTAR DISK MAGAZINE, & A LARGE NTERNET ARCHIVE OF THE TUNES EXISTS AT WWW.C64MUS, GIVING A 4TH TRACK FOR DIGITISED SOUNDS TO PLAY ALONGSIDE A COMPOSITION. ND THE CONVERSION OF ARCADE SMASH HIT HAS 2 AMAZING TUNES WITH DIGITISED SOUNDS, RANGING FROM SPEECH SAMPLES TO SCRATCH- ING RECORDS & ALL SORTS OF PEED THE JARGON. NSTEAD OF VOICES, WE NOW HAD 3 TRACKS, JUST LIKE A RECORDING STUDIO. ACH TUNE WAS BUILT UP OF SEQUENCES, ALLOWING YOU TO REPEAT SECTIONS OF THE TUNE. HE ONLY DRAWBACK WAS IT USED LARGE AMOUNTS OF MEMORY. HEN THE DEMO SCENE STARTED IN AS NOTHER VISITOR & EDIC! M HIT HERE WAS ALSO THE FANTASTIC - GAME BY AVID RANE OF CTI- VISION, WHITH SEVERAL SPEECH SAMPLES & ING-LONG VERSION OF THE AY ARKER R. THEME TUNE THAT DISPLAYED THE LYRICS ONSCREEN WITH A BOUNCING BALLMIX DRUM & MUSIC PATTERNS WHILE THE MAIN PROGRAM LOADED ITH THE INVENTION OF THE -LOADER, MUSIC COULD CARRY ON WHILE SOMETHING WAS LOADING FROM DISK. HAT ALSO LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRACKMO (TRACK-DEMO) WITH ITS CONTINUOUS EFFECTS. PIC PIECE EN A FEW TALENTED INDIVIDUALS BECAME FAMOUS FOR THEIR MUSIC, & WERE EMPLOYED SOLELY ON THAT BASIS. EARS LATER,THEIR NAMES ARE STILL IMPORTANT OB UBBARD, ARTIN ALWAY, AVID HITTAKER & THE LATE (AND SADLY MISSED) ICHARD OSEPH. F COURSE, ER THEIR FAVORITE SONGS OR COMPOSE THEIR OWN MUSIC. VER TIME THE FORMAT & THE ACCOMPANYING PLAYER APPLICATION DEVELOPED. T FIRST YOU COULD READ INFO ON THE TUNE & SEE THE NOTES ON A PIANO KEYBOARD. ATER PLAYERS ADDED OPTIONS TO SEE AN ACCOMPANYING PIC E 64. , , F COURSE, SOMEONE TOOK IT A STEP FURTHER. OW ABOUT PLAYING DIGITISED SOUNDS AT THE SAME TIME AS MUSIC? AMES THAT TALK LIKE , & HAVE A LOT OF ATMOSPHERE GENERATED FROM THEIR FUNNY SAMPLES. HEN ALONG CAME  UPDATE CHANGING VALUES. ORE COMPLEX SOUNDS COULD BE GENERATED, LEADING TO BETTER TUNES. HE NEXT STEP FORWARD WAS A DEDICATED EDITOR THAT ALLOWED YOU TO USE THE MUSIC IT PRODUCED IN YOUR OWN PROGRAMS MONG THE EARLIEST WAS , WHICH CHANG OW PROGRAMS TO CREATE SPEECH. ORDS & PHRASES ARE BROKEN DOWN INTO PHONEMES, SHORT GROUPS OF SOUND, & SPOKEN BY AN ARTIFICIAL VOICE. HE NEXT STEP WAS SOFTWARE SYNTHESIS, WITH GAMES LIKE & RECITING MEMORABLE PHRASES SUCH  EFFECTS TO MUSIC WAS ALSO POPULAR, FROM A SIMPLE GRAPHIC EQUALISER FLASHING IN TIME WITH THE 3 CHANNELS, THEN ON TO LARGER MOVEMENTS OF WHOLE PICTURES. HE GAME ALSO ADDED A NEW PHENOMENON -- A CLEVER PIECE OF SOFTWARE THAT ALLOWED YOU TO TTEN SOMEWHERE AND THE KEYWORD IS " " SITES WHICH FALSELY ADVERTISE ABOUT 300 WEBSPACE & 3000 OF MONTHLY TRANSFER. E TOOK THEM UP ON THAT OFFER & WAS USED ABOUT 10% OF THIS "ALLOWED" TRAFFIC DURING 2 MONTHS AND THAT WAS IT. E HAD TO MO IF ONE DAY CAN'T HOLD THE SITE UP, THE PEOPLE WHO MADE RECENT DONATIONS WOULD JUST THROW AWAY MONEY & MAYBE EVEN BE DISAPPOINTED & WE DON'T WANT THAT RESPONSIBILITY ON OUR SOULS. O, FOR THE TIME BEING WE WILL TRY TO PROVIDE THE FILES USING CHEAP HOSU Y NDREW ISHER OTE: THIS IS AN UPDATED VERSION FOR REE AGAZINE OF AN ARTICLE 1ST PUBLISHED IN IGEST IN 2003 NSIDE EVERY 64/128 IS A SPECIAL CHIP. HE OUND NTERFACE EVICE OR 6581 CHIP (LATER TO  ALLOWS AN EXTERIOR INTO THE CHIP, WHICH WAS UNCOMMON AT THE TIME. HE EARLIEST FORM OF MUSIC WAS A PROGRAM. OTES WERE STORED AS , READ INTO AN ARRAY & PLAYED BACK. ANY OF THESE PROGRAMS USED A FREQUENCY TABLE TO GENERATHE FILES THEY NEED. 'M ALSO NOT TOO INTERESTED IN HAVING TO DEAL WITH OTHER PEOPLES MONEY & ALMOST MAKING A SIDE-BUSINESS OUT OF THIS AND DEALING WITH THE DONATIONS. HERE WILL QUITE POSSIBLE BE SOME WORK INVOLVED. HAVE SO MANY OTHER THINGS TO DO, AND WHICH FALSELY ADVERTISE ABOUT 300 WEBSPACE AND 3000 OF MONTHLY TRANSFER. E TOOK THEM UP ON THAT OFFER AND WAS USED ABOUT 10% OF THIS "ALLOWED" TRAFFIC DURING 2 MONTHS AND THAT WAS IT. E HAD TO MOVE THE FILES AWAY, THEY COULDN'T TAKE IT. E DIDRE ARE DRAWBACKS TO ITS USE. INALLY, IT IS IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT SOUND OUTPUT. ROM THE START HAD AN ADVANTAGE THE AUDIO/VIDEO PORT ON THE 64 ALLOWS CONNECTION TO EXTERIOR AUDIO EQUIPMENT OR A MONITOR FOR BETTER QUALITY OUTPUT. HAT SAME PORT ALSOLAYER ICK AKEMAN) WORKS WITH THE OUND XPANDER CARTRIDGE & ITS BUILT-IN AMAHA CHIP. HILE THE SOFTWARE WAS LIMITED, THE OUTPUT WAS VERY HIGH QUALITY FOR THE TIME. NOTHER AREA THE CHIP EXCELLED IN WAS GENERATING SOUND EFFECTS. ARLY A WORK SOMETHING THAT DO NOT WISH TO DO. JUST WANNA RECORD THE MUSIC AND GIVE IT OUT.ONTINUING TO IMPROVE THE CURRENT SITES WE HAVE IS NOT REALLY SOMETHING WE WANT TO DO. S THE SITES STAND TODAY, THEY ARE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT TO PROVIDE USERS WITH T STUDIOS.COM ACT OUR INTERESTED PEOPLE THAT WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE A MIRROR OR AT LEAST MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO BRING THE = COLLECTION THROUGH A STREAMING RADIO SOLUTION. EGARDS TONE AKVALLEY TUDIOS HTTP://WWW.6581-8580.COM HTTP://WWW.STONE-OAKVALLEYGETHER TO CREATE A NEW TYPE OF SOUND. HERE IS ALSO ANOTHER FEATURE, THE FILTER, WHICH CAN DRAMATICALLY ALTER THE TONE & RESONANCE OF A SOUND. T THE TIME IT WAS ONLY AN OPTION ON EXPENSIVE SYNTH- ESIZERS OR THROUGH SOUND EDITING, BUT AS WE SHALL SEE THEPUTER KEYBOARD & LOOKED LIKE A PIANO KEYBOARD. RESSING THE APPROP- RIATE KEY UNDERNEATH. ATER CAME THE PLAY-ALONG ALBUMS, & THE MORE ADVANCED OUND TUDIO. HE FULL-SIZED KEYBOARD THAT CAME WITH THE USIC XPANSION YSTEM (PROMOTED BY FAMOUS KEYBOARD PE THAT RELY ON DONATIONS & EVEN POSSIBLE BANNERS COULD HOST THE = COLLECTION INSTEAD. O THAT WE CAN STOP BEING BUSINESS MEN WITH THE HOSTING COMPANIES. LSO, GUESS TO SET UP AN NETWORK FOR ACCEPTING BANNERS ETC WOULD REQUIRE SOME ADDITIONAL GROUND WE WILL CONTACT OUR INTERESTED PEOPLE THAT WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE A MIRROR OR AT LEAST MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO BRING THE = COLLECTION THROUGH A STREAMING RADIO SOLUTION. EGARDS TONE AKVALLEY TUDIOS HTTP://WWW.6581-8580.COM HTTP://WWW.STONE-OAKVALLEY OB ANNES. 3 SEPARATE CHANNELS OF SOUND CAN PLAY AT ONCE, GIVING DEPTH & RANGE. ACH CHANNELS ENVELOPE (SHAPE OF THE SOUND) & WAVEFORM (STRUCTURE OF THE SOUND) CAN BE SET INDEPENDENTLY OR, THROUGH THE SYNCHRONISATION & RING MODULATION REGISTERS, WORK TO MANY PROGRAMS LIKE THIS, TRANSCRIBING FAMOUS MUSIC SUCH AS HAPSODY IN LUE OR CLASSICAL WORKS. ALSO WORKED ON PERIPHERALS THAT ALLOWED THE USER TO MAKE MUSIC THE EARLIEST BEING THE USIC AKER KEYBOARD OVERLAY. HIS PLASTIC FRAME FITTED OVER THE COM VE THE FILES AWAY, THEY COULDN'T TAKE IT. E DID GET REFUNDS THOUGH. O, WHAT IF WE ACCEPTED DONTATIONS? GUESS COULD PAY FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS, BUT SOONER OR LATER IT WOULD CRUMBLE DOWN. O, OUR WISH IS THAT THE OTHER WELL ESTABLISHED SITES OUT THER TING SOLUTIONS, WHILE WILL RECORD THE #47 & FIX THE ERRORS AND EVEN RECORD THE 65812. ECK, WE MIGHT JUST GO OFFLINE UNTIL CAN GET ALL THIS FIXED, WHY NOT. LIKE TO HAVE A COMPLETE PROJECT TO PASS ON TO A MIRROR SITE.HEN THAT HAPPENS, BE REPLACED BY THE 8580) GAVE IT THE BEST SOUND OF ANY 8-BIT MACHINE, & HAS LEFT A LEGACY OF MUSIC & SOUND THAT IS STILL IMPORTANT. IRST OF ALL, IT IS IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT THE SPECIFICATIONS OF THE CHIP CREATED BY TALENTED ENGINEER E OUTPUT, RELYING ON MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES OF SOUND. HIS ALSO MEANT THE DATA COULD BE ENTERED IN SOMETHING APPROACHING MUSICAL NOTATION A NOTE COULD BE STORED AS 4, READ BACK BY THE PROGRAM & CONVERTED INTO NUMERIC VALUES THAT NEEDED. HERE WERE RCADE GAMES HAD RELATIVELY SIMPLE BEEPS, WHICH DEVELOPED INTO MORE REAL- ISTIC NOISES BY THE TIME THE 64 CAME ALONG. HE 64 COULD REPLICATE THEM PERFECTLY, & EVEN IMPROVE ON THEM. Y COMBINING DIFFERENT VOICES COMPLICATED SOUNDS LIKE SIRENS & TICKING CLTHAT TUNE WAS SPECIFICALLY COMPOSED ON/FOR. N OTHER INSTANCES, YOU WILL SEE SEVERAL "FLAGS", THAT SHOULD MEAN THAT THE TRACK SOUND GOOD ON BOTH MODELS OF THE CHIP. HIS IS MAINLY TO HELP LISTENERS TO FIND "THAT" FAVORITE TUNE TO DOWNLOAD. -NERUD_EBA STIAN\SYKOLOG_END_07.SID.MP3. T SEEMS TO BE A "MIX-UP" OF TUNE 1-6 IN THE FILE THE ENTRY STATES, ALTHOUGH WOULD RATHER CALL IT A "MESSED-UP MIX". HE TRACK LASTS FOR ABOUT 34 MINUTES. - THINK ITS GREAT TO BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD VALLEY TUDIOS NAME JUST SOUNDED APPROPRIATE. TS ALSO A CREATIVE STUDIO WHERE NOT JUST MOVIES & MUSIC CAN COME TO LIFE BUT GENERALLY ALL THAT LIKE TO DO AND SPEND MY TIME ON. REATIVE PROJECTS FOR THE EYE & EAR & STUFF THAT PEOPLE DON'T DO & WOULDN'T UST FILTERED THEM ON OUR 'S AND SITE AS TWO DIFFERENT DIRS WITH THE FILE STRUCTURE INTACT INSIDE. HE TOOL WOULD BE LIMITED IN HOW MUCH YOU COULD DOWNLOAD DURING A DAY, OR BASED ON AMOUNTS OF DATA DOWNLOADED ETC, BUT DO NOT HAVE THE PLANS READY DIO "W W W . STONE-OAKVALLEY-STUDIOS.COM" CAN YOU TELL OUR READERS ABOUT THIS - TS NOT A REAL RECORDING STUDIO, REALLY. USED TO CALL MYSELF EMONOID RODUCTIONS(!M!) DURING MY MIGA YEARS & LONG INTO THE 20'S OR 00' S OR WHATEVER WE GONNA CALL THMUSIC SECTION ON THE TONE AKVALLEY TUDIOS SITE. ND, IF YOU GOT THE TIME, CHECK OUT SOME OF THE OTHER PROJECTS BESIDE THE 64 PROJECT. UT...PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A COUPLE OF HOURS TO SPARE...YOU GONNA NEED IT, IT THAT MUCH TO GO THROUGH:) -OWNLOAD EVERYTHING THEY SEE. N OUR OPINIONS,NOBODY COULD BE THAT MAD?...OR? - HAT IS THE LARGEST MP3 FILE ON THE WEBSITE - OLD ON... NEED TO CREATE A TOOL FOR THAT... OW, YEAH, THE LARGEST FILE IS 57815168 (57.8MB) 65814\\\JOERE EMULATOR....THOUGHT THAT WAS COOL? EAH?, WELL... TRY THE REAL PHYSICAL THING & YOU'LL NEVER GO BACK TO THAT LAME WAY OF MAKING BASSLINES:). INCE ALSO HAD A FULL EDITING EQUIPMENT FOR DOING AT LEAST MOVIES & BEFORE THAT - MOVIES THE TONE AKRICE WE WOULD THINK. ELL, WE DID HAVE ALL THE FILES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD THROUGH SOME REALLY CHEAP WEBHOSTERS FOR SOME MONTHS. HE PRICE WAS SO LOW, COULD NOT BELIEVE...AND AS YOU MAY ALREADY KNOW.... SUCH A CHEAP PRICE DOES HAVE ITS "SMALL TEXT" WRI HAVE AN IDEA ON HOLD WHICH IS THE = OWNLOADER OOL WHICH CAN BE USED TO MASS DOWNLOAD SONGS AND AUTOMATICALLY CREATE THE CORRECT DIRECTORY STRUCTURE FOR YOU AS DEFINED BY INITIALLY. ODAY, THE 6581 AND 8580 FILES ARE NAMED THE SAME, WE HAVE JIS? 64 MUSIC TELL THEM, THEN THEY SMILE & THINK IT SOUNDS COOL. OR THOSE WHO ALREADY KNOW WHAT IT IS, THEY SAY..DO YOU HAVE OMMANDO & ....AND...WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THAT GAME WHERE YOU..BLAH.BLAH AND SO IT GOES:) - OU HAVE A REAL RECORDING STUIC THROUGH & ALL DURING 2007, BUT NOW.... GUESS WE END UP IN THE NEXT YEAR.AS ALWAYS :). OMEDAY, WILL BE BACK ON THE KEYBOARDS & TRANCING OUT SOME COOL TRACKS AGAIN. ND, OH.. IF YOU ARE CURIOUS ABOUT MY MUSIC, THEY'RE ALL DOWNLOADABLE FROM MY DURING 2007 ONLY USED CHEAP SOLUTIONS, SO THEY MUST BE BOTHERED AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE OR THEY WILL...ERHH.. THROWN US OUT! O, TODAY, THERE IS ONLY A STRAIGHT FORWARD INTERFACE FOR PEOPLE TO DOWNLOAD SOME TRACKS...AND NOT GO MENTALLY CRAZY & DTONE AKVALLEY TUDIOS NAME AND ENVIRONMENT IN 2003. ODAY DO HAVE A FULLY EQUIPPED MUSIC STUDIO WITH JUST PHYSICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. CAN'T STAND SOFTSYNTH, THEY DO NO GOOD FOR MY FINGERS. IKE, HAVE YOU TRIED USING YOUR MOUSE ON A -303 SOFTWARAL OR SIMILAR - ONATIONS....DONATIONS. E HAD SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS, BUT HAVE STATED THAT NO DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED AS IT WOULD INTERFERE WITH MY BELIEF IN THE WORDS AND -. OWEVER, SERVING 300+ OF DOES NOT COME WITHOUT A P AN WE BULK DOWNLOAD FOR EXAMPLE IF SEARCH ON "HUBBARD" AN DOWNLOAD ALL THE P3S THAT ARE RETURED IN ONE GO -OT VIA OUR DATABASE AS IT IS TODAY NO. GUESS THE SMART PEOPLE WITH OWNLOAD ANAGERS HAVE ALREADY FIGURED OUT AN ALTERNATIVE WAY:)  THE P3S YOU LIKE STICK THEM ON A SMALL 3 PLAYER & LISTEN AT WORK/OR ON THE BUS ETC PEOPLE ASK "WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO" & CAN SAY "SID MUSIC" THEN THEY JUST BLANKLY GAVE AT ME TAPPING MY FOOT AWAY - HEN PEOPLE CATCH ME THEY ASK TO, WHAT IS TH DO EVEN IF THEY SAID THEY GONNA. WISH COULD HAVE A PROPER MUSIC STUDIO, BUT DON'T HAVE MY OWN HOUSE & THE NEED IS NOT THERE EITHER, AS HAVE BEEN DOING SO MUCH ELSE THAN MAKING MUSIC SINCE 2003. PROMISED MYSELF TO GET BACK INTO THE COMPOSING MUS ON HOW AND WHAT TO LIMIT. HE TOOL IS A VERY DANGEROUS TOOL SO IT HAS TO BE LIMITED OR ELSE WE WOULD PROBABLY END UP WITH TRAFFIC AS HIGH AS OUUBE OR SOMETHING:) E THOUGHT ABOUT ENABLING TOO, BUT THE HOSTING COMPANIES WILL NOT LIKE THIS. E HAVE  IS DECADE. HE ZEROS, GUESS. NYWAY, SINCE DO SO MUCH DIFFERENT STUFF WITHIN EDITING, GRAPHICS, AUDIO AND FILE TREATMENT ALL MY LIFE DECIDED TO CALL IT JUST TUDIOS & USE MY REAL NAME AS A IGNITER FOR MY NEW "BRAND" SO TO SPEAK. O, CREATED THE  O YOU RUN THE STUDIO COMMERCIALLY AND HAVE YOU HAD ANY FAMOUS PEOPLE RECORD THERE - O, JUST FOR MY OWN MUSIC. F GET FAMOUS SOME DAY...THAN AT LEAST CAN COUNT ONE. - CANT FIND ANYWHERE TO DONATE TO THE PROJECT ARE YOU GOING TO ACCEPT PAYPU HE = ROJECT HTTP://WWW.6581-8580.COM/INDEX.HTM 3 - RE YOU ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH UPDATES? ELL, MY SYSTEM WAS BASED ON #45 WHICH WAS RELEASED IN PRIL 2006. Y SYSTEM RECORDED 24/7 FROM OVEMBER 2006 THROUGH ARCH 2007. N BETWEEN HY. URING 2006 THEY ONLY HAD ONE RELEASE, BUT DURING 2005 THEY HAD 4.N 2007 THEY ALREADY HAVE HAD 2 RELEASES, BUT SUSPECT A #48 RELEASE AROUND HRISTMAS OR EVEN BEFORE. NYWAY, 'M STILL CATCHING UP, SO HOPEFULLY CAN RELEASE THE UPDATES MUCH FASHER THOUGHTS. F ANOTHER PERSON HAD ONLY LETS SAY 128KBPS TUNES ON THEIR 3 WHILE JOGGING THEY WOULD IN JUST 5-10 MINUTES AFTER FORGET ABOUT THE QUALITY & THEIR EARS WOULD ADJUST TO THE MATERIAL & FROM THERE... IT DOES NOT REALLY MATTER ANYMORE HEY'D EU HE = ROJECT HTTP://WWW.6581-8580.COM/INDEX.HTM 2 - LTHOUGH THE WEBSITE LISTS HOW IT WAS ALL DONE CAN YOU GIVE OUR READER "A BRIEF HOW TO GUIDE" ON HOW YOU BULK RECORD FROM A - IRST YOU NEED A STAND-ALONE PLAYER/SOFTWARE ON THENES.HE ONLY REMAINING BUGS THAT STILL ARE "PRESENT" FROM THE #45 RELEASE IS THE ISSUE WITH SPECIFIC TUNES. WILL HAVE TO PURCHASE MODELS & ADDITIONALLY FIX & RE-RECORD ABOUT 2974 TUNES FOR THAT CAUSE. S RECORDED EVERYTHING ON MACHINES ORMED ON MY 3 COLLECTION AS WELL. O FOR EACH UPDATE THERE IS MORE THAN JUST HIT RECORD AND GO : )LSO, THE CREW HAS STATED THAT THE THERE IS A CURRENT INCREASE OF BEING RIPPED ETC, SO THAT ALSO BRINGS THE RELEASES FASTER OUT THAN NORMALL CALLY. HE OPTIONS FOR SEARCHING ARE "ONGTITLE/OMPOSER/ELEASER/ATE". THINK THE PULLDOWN MENU EXPLAINS IT ALL.ITTING SEARCH & YOU'D FIND YOUR HITS. OU CAN DOWNLOAD BOTH THE 6581 AND 8580 VERSIONS BUT ALSO AS A BONUS THE FILE FROM THE COLL 64 THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY USER INPUT TO PLAY SONGS & CHANGE SUB TRACKS. HERE ARE SOME PLAYERS FOR THE 64 WHICH CAN PLAY THE & FILES, BUT IT REQUIRES YOU TO PRESS RETURN & USE ARROW KEYS. CHOOSE 64 V0.7/V0.8 BECAUSE THE PLAYER ROUTIR UPDATES THE CREW HAD PERFORMED, LIKE; SONGLENGTHS FIXES COPYRIGHT FIXES, & INFORMATION STORED IN THE . HEY ALSO SOMETIMES DELETE FILES & REMOVE DIRS & MOVE FILES AROUND. LL OF THESE CHANGES HAS TO BE EITHER MANUALLY OR HALF- AUTOMATIC BE PERF ECTION AS WELL. HIS CAN BE HANDY TO QUICKLY FIND OUT "THAT" PARTICULAR TUNE IS WHAT YOU SEEK FOR. F COURSE YOU NEED SOME KIND OF IDLAYER SOFTWARE TO PLAY IT. LSO, THE CAN BE HANDY TO DETERMINE IF YOU FOUND A POSSIBLE DAMAGED RECORDING OR A RECORON & THAT WAS THE TUNES & SOME REALLY LARGE FILES WHICH CAUSED SOME AFTERMATH RECORDING WORK. LOT OF MANUAL WORK WAS DONE ON THESE RECORDINGS. URING ULY 2007 MANAGED TO FIX 3457 TUNES THAT HAD NOTED, OR BY OTHERS VIA THE FORUMS AS BAD ONE IS INCLUDED TOGETHER WITH THE ITSELF. 64 CREATES EXECUTABLE FILES WHICH START TO PLAY INSTANTLY. UT, SOME OF THE TRACKS LOCK UP THE 64 SO YOU CAN CHOOSE SUB SONGS THAT EASILY & SECURE. THEN HAD TO DUPLICATE THE FILE WITH THE ART FROM WOULD BE: HTTP://WWW.6581 8580.COM. HEN ON THE TOP MENU, CLICK "OWNLOAD 3S". OU WILL ENTER THE DATABASE & THE FIRST PAGE OF "HITS". ROM HERE YOU CAN EITHER CLICK ON THE INSANE BULK OF NUMBERS WHICH REPRESENT PAGES ON THE DATABASE ALPHABETIDING FILLED WITH NOISE OR SOMETHING THAT CLEARLY DIFFERS FROM THE FILE. OU WILL NOTICE A "FLAG" ON THE "3 XXX XXXXXX" BUTTONS TO THE LEFT IN THE FILE TABLE. HIS MEANS THAT THE TUNE IS MADE FOR THAT SPECIFIC CHIP, OR IS SUGGESTED TO BE THE  THE RECORDING RACK IS OF THE FIRST PRIORITY (CHECK OUR FORUM HTTP://WWW.DIRTCELLAR.NET/PHP3/VIEW TOPIC.PHP?F=8&T=146 ). URTHER, THE UPDATES ARE NOT JUST RECORDING THE UPDATE FOR ME, BUT ALSO OWN TOOLS HAVE TO BE CREATED TO FILTER OUT WHAT OTHEEREO VERSION ? - O, RECORDED AS INTENDED BY BOTH AND 99% OF THE COMPOSERS. LAIN MONO. HERE WILL BE NO OTHER VERSIONS RECORDED OR PRODUCED. R FOR THE PURPOSE OF=. - ARE ALL THE FILES RECORDED IN MONO OR DO YOU PLAN TO HAVE A PSEUDO ST ERE CAME THE #46 DURING ANUARY 2007. EEING HOW THE UPDATES WAS RELEASED, THOUGHT WOULD BE FINISHED LONG TIME BEFORE #47 HIT THE MARKET IN UNE 2007. UT, HAD NOTED SOME PROBLEMS WITH A COUPLE THOUSANDS SONGS FROM THE #45 COLLECTI TER THAN DURING THIS YEAR. UT AS SAID, THAT IS BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF AFTERMATH PROBLEMS FOR THE INITIAL RECORDINGS. - N THE SITE YOU CAN SEARCH THE TUNE OR COMPOSER - CAN YOU TAKE OUR READER THROUGH THE OPTIONS - EAH, THE MAIN SITE YOU'D STMOST PREFERABLE VERSION TO LISTEN TO. HIS FLAG COMES DIRECTLY FROM THE FILE ITSELF, SO IT FOLLOWS MANY YEARS OF RESEARCH :) LSO, TAKE NOTICE THAT SOMETIMES THERE WILL BE NO "FLAG " AT ALL. HAT MEANS NOBODY KNOWS (YET) WHAT KIND OF CHIP NJOY THE VIEW & THE MUSIC WOULD IN MANY CASES BECOME SUBCONSCIOUS VIBES OF SOUND & NOT SOMETHING TO ANALYZE TO DEATH OR NAG ABOUT NOT CHOOSING OR FOR THE PURPOSE OF=. - ARE ALL THE FILES RECORDED IN MONO OR DO YOU PLAN TO HAVE A PSEUDO ST& THE FACT THAT 64 DOES NOT HANDLE FLAGGED TUNES CORRECTLY OR NOT AT ALL, REALLY NEVER GOT FINISHED WITH THE FULL #45 RELEASE.ND WE ARE NOW IN UGUST 2007 AT THIS POINT OF WRITING, WHERE HAVE RECORDED THE 8580 VERSION OF #47 ALREADY,URTHER IT WAS A CRAZY PROJECT THAT ALSO ENJOYED FOR MY OWN PERSONAL PLEASURE & THE QUESTION OF..."COULD ACTUALLY PULL IT OFF, OR HAVE REACHED THE LIMIT OF INSANITY JUST NOW?". UESS NOT. ND NOT TO FORGET, BOTH CHIPS HAD TO BE RECORDED. OT, JUST MS & & WHY NOT USING & ...BUT FOR THOSE WHO SAY THAT, ONLY ASK: AN ALL OF YOUR HARDWARE EQUIPMENT PLAY & STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BOX (WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL PLUGINS) ETC?. O, GENERALLY NOT SO SIMPLE.... BUT ALSO THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS,..EVEN IF IT TAKES 200KB FOR A BLANK IMAGE, WANT IT. HAVE WORKED WITH VIDEO EDITING, , COMPRESSION ON COMPUTERS FOR 10 YEARS NOW, SO VE SEEN THE DANGEROUS SETTINGS TO AVOID. ARIABLE IT ATES SCARES ME, SO THERE. R, IN OUR CASE IF THE  RECORDED LIVE OF A MACHINE. - ES, ALL S & ALL SUBTUNES/ SOUNDS WITHIN THE FILES WERE RECORDED IN A AUTOMATIC RECORDING LOOP, WHICH BASICALLY GOES LIKE; RESET 64, TYPE & LOAD, RUN, PLAY, RECORD, RESET, CREATE 3, UPDATE CURRENT PROGRESA PLUGIN FOR MY INMP MAYBE, MAYBE NOT DONT REALLY CARE ABOUT OR FORMATS. NLY PLAYABLE ON SPECIFIC SOFTWARE PLAYERS WITH THE PLUGINS IN PLACE, & DO HAVE HARDWARE THAT SUPPORT IT, LIKE PLAYERS, 3 PLAYERS.. HAVE NO IDEA & DO NOT CARTHE MATERIAL FOR SOMETHING THEY WOULD AT LEAST GET MORE QUALITY THAN NEEDED. DID NOT WANT TO SKIP IT DOWN TO THE BONE & OPTIMIZE MY FILES. EEP THEM GOOD ENOUGH FOR SOME POST-PROCESSING OR WHATEVER PEOPLE WOULD DO TO THE 3 FILES IN THE AFTERMATH. N BECAUSE KNOW THAT FOR INSTANCE MY CAR STEREO PLAYER (FROM 2003) HAD PROBLEMS WITH 320BPS & ALSO 3 FILES. HE 3 WAS ENCODED WITH & THE COMMAND LINE "-C -H -M M -B 224 -Q 2 --TG 52 --ID3V1-ONLY". OME PEOPLE WILL DISAGREE ABOUT THE 224BPEE BOXES OF GRAPHICS SHIMMERING/GLIMMERING WHILE THE ENCODER TRIES QUICKLY TO UNCOMPRESS THE IMAGE MATERIAL. HAT IS THE (ARIABLE IT ATIO) IN ACTION JUST DON'T TRUST SELF ADJUSTING REAL -TIME COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS.. PREFER SOLID STREAM OF DATAOPLE WILL TRY AS HARD AS THEY CAN TO IDENTIFY DEFECTS IN THE SOUND MATERIAL. UT, AS LOGIC HAS IT PEOPLE WILL SOON IGNORE/GET USED TO THE QUALITY, & JUST LISTEN TO THE MUSIC ANYWAY. HEIR BRAIN & EARS WOULD FOCUS ON OTHER ELEMENTS LIKE ENVIRONMENTS OR OTST HAD TO SUPPORT THOSE 8580 PEOPLE AS WELL. URTHER EVEN TWO REVISIONS OF THE 6581CHIP WILL BE RECORDED SINCE THERE IS A CLEAR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 4 & 2 FOR INSTANCE. 65813 WILL BE IGNORED AS FAR AS KNOW TODAY. - O THESE ARE AUTOMATED 3 TRACKS3. F COURSE SEEN FROM A PRESERVATION VIEW SHOULD BE THE ONLY RIGHT CHOICE, BUT THE AMOUNT OF SPACE NEEDED FOR THAT IS NOT THAT SIMPLE TO DEAL WITH....YET. IS CLAIMED TO HAVE A BETTER QUALITY OF SOUND VS. FILE SIZE REALLY DON'T KNOW. NEED  WHY NOT DOING IT 'S WAY. HE 224KBPS WAS CHOSEN JUST OUT OF THE HAT. FELT THAT 320KBPS WAS REALLY OVERKILL, 192 COULD SUFFICE BUT LOWER WOULD BE JUST A WASTE OF EFFORT. O KEPT THE QUALITY JUST A BIT HIGHER TO MAKE SURE THAT IF ANYBODY WOULD USE 'S JUST STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BOX. PLAYERS IN THE LIVING ROOM, CAR STEREO PLAYERS, OLD 3 PLAYERS FROM 7 YEARS BACK & A LOT OF OTHER PECULIAR HARDWARE (LIKE 3 PLUG-IN FOR THE 64) SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY THE 3'S JUST SO. HE 224BPS WAS CHOSEPLES FOR YOUR DOG TO LISTEN TO. QUICK OPINION ABOUT THE (ONSTANT IT ATIO) TOO. , 'M NO SUPER EXPERT ON THIS, BUT HERE GOES. T'S LIKE WATCHING TODAYS SATELLITE STREAMS. F YOU WATCHING FAST MOVING IMAGES & ESPECIALLY EXPLOSIONS YOU WILL SNLOAD THEIR FAVORITE OR JUST PICKS AT RANDOM. FTER A FEW HUNDRED SONGS GUESS MOST OF THEM STOP & JUST LISTEN TO WHAT THEY HAVE. OST PEOPLE WOULD HAVE A PROBLEM (AFTER LETS SAY 5 10 SONGS) TO TELL ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 160, 224 & 320KBPS. T FIRST PE Y PERSONAL FAVORITE 6581. HERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ONLY REMEMBER THE 8580 OF AST INJA FORINSTANCE. HEY WOULD NOT HAVE RECOGNIZED THE 6581 VERSION WHERE FOR INSTANCE ONTRACK 9 THERE IS A FILTER SOUND PRESENT WHICH IS NOT THERE ON THE 8580 :) JU DO THEY HAVE EXACT SUPPORTED 3 PHYSICAL PLAYER IN THEIR POCKET WHEN YOU ACCIDENTALLY GIVE THEM THE CLASSIC SOUND OF THE 64 FOR THEM TO LISTEN TO? UESS NOT, EY? ND THERE YOU HAVE IT, MY ONLY POINT & STATEMENT FOR WHY CHOOSING 224BPS  3 FRAME IS ALMOST DEAD SILENCE WE WOULD SAVE A FEW OF BYTES BY USING INSTEAD OF . OR A SONG WE WOULD MAYBE SAVE 300- 900KB USING ? AYBE MORE, DID NOT REALLY CHECK. ELL, SINCE MOST OF US ARE ON BROADBAND TODAY THERE SHOULD BE NO ARGUMENT OF S & LOOP IT UNTIL THE END. - THE MP3'S ARE RECORDED IN QUITE A HIGH QUALITY 224BPS WHY DID YOU SELECT THIS. - HE 3 & 224BPS WAS CHOSEN BECAUSE IT IS IN MY STRONGEST BELIEF THAT THIS IS A FORMAT SUITABLE FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT HARDWARE &  E. 3 FORVEVER. ND SINCE IS A LATER FORMAT & MUCH MORE LESS COMMERCIALIZED, WAS EARLY ON DECIDED NOT TO BE USED. UT, HAVE AN EXPERIMENT ON WHAT FREQUENCIES ARE BEING CUT OUT FROM THE 3 FILES ON MY PAGE, GUESS THERE ARE SOME SOUND SAMGUESS THE MEANING OF = IS NOT THAT PEOPLE CAN HAVE ALL IN ONE PACK. LIKE THE . F PEOPLE DID SOME INVESTIGATING THEY WOULD MANAGE TO LISTEN TO ALL THE ANYWAY. OU KNOW...THE LENGTH OF THE ENTIRE IS 2978 OURS OF MUSIC! EOPLE DOWFOR 6 MONTHS AFTER THAT & SOLD IT TO A FRIEND. ND FUNNY AS IT GOES, THIS GUY IS NOW LIVING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD & HE STILL HAS THE BOX IN THE TTIC. OME DAY WILL RECAPTURE YOU - MY BREAD BOX FRIEND! ND TO ADD TO THE FINAL CONCLUSION, IN 1992 MISSEDOW, IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE = PROJECT (ID 2007) STARTED ACTUALLY LOADING UP TURBO TAPES & PLAY- ING AGAIN FOR REAL ON THE 64. T STILL DOES THE MAGIC FOR ME, & HAVE PLAYED SOME LOVABLE FORGOTTEN GAMES LIKE IRE NT & ADY UT FROM THE PAST DUR & THUS ELIMINATING A LOT OR MAYBE EVEN ALL NOISE THAT YOU COULD STATE AS IRRITATING TO LISTEN TO FOR LONGER PERIODS. ACCEPTED THAT MODIFICATION. HE ONLY OTHER PROCESSING DONE WAS MAXIMIZING VOLUME & ADJUST BIAS TO 0.0 WITH SOFTWARE LIKE & O INTENDO, & LAYTATION ETC ETC NEVER CAPTURED ME IN ANY WAY... FOR ME IT WAS ALWAYS OMMODORE! - O YOU STILL ACTIVELY USE MACHINES (APART FROM THE PROJECT) - ROM 1997 UNTIL CA. 2000 WAS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR THE 64'S. T THAT TI STANDS FOR TONE AKVALLEY'S UTHENTIC OLLECTION. HE '=' WAS PUT IN THERE TO RECOGNIZE THE = BRAND IN SOME WAY. KNOW ITS COPYRIGHTED, SO DO NOT RELY SO MUCH ON THAT ON THE WEBSITE. UST AS A SUBTLE WORD/GRAPHIC REFERENCE. MUST POINT OUT T & BEEN SO FOR A DECADE AT LEAST.TS TIME TO PUT OUT AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT USED TO MEAN. ET YOUR STUFF YOU SEEK & GET OUT. O SIMPLE. OTHING MORE. EAVE ALL THE BELLS & WHISTLES TO SOMEBODY ELSE. ND SO IT RESULTED IN THE SITES WE HAVE TODAY, BOTH REENS ALONG WITH MY OWN 3 ATRIX ORE ENU YSTEM. ND MY RCADE ACHINE IS A HUGE MONSTER...UT DURING 2006 CAME OVER A COMPARISON ON EMULATION VS. HARDWARE RECORDINGS OF 64 SID MUSIC & NATURALLY BEGAN THE = PROJECT OUT OF THAT SINGLE MOMENT. E THING IS THAT THESE GRITTY, NOISY FACTORS ARE JUST WHAT YOU REMEMBER (HOPEFULLY) ON YOUR CRAPPY OLD FROM THE 80'S. HEN DOING TEST RECORDINGS THE NOISE WAS NATURALLY VERY PRESENT & LUCKILY FOUND A SITE GIVING TIPS ABOUT CONNECTING PIN TO & WANT TO SHOW MY RESPECT FOR THOSE COMPOSERS & TO BRING FORWARD/ PRESENT THEIR WORK IN A MORE SUITABLE MUSIC FORMAT THAT WE CAN ALL SHARE & ENJOY WITHOUT HAVING TO TYPE SOMETHING & WAIT 30MINS FOR THE TAPE TO FINISH IN THE WORST CASE SCENARIO :)  SOLD; THEY WERE JUST SO PRECIOUS SO THEY WERE STORED IN THE ATTIC. MAZINGLY ENOUGH READERS...THOSE EXACT MACHINES WERE USED IN THE PROCESS OF THE = PROJECT! MUST HAVE HAD A EVIL FUTURISTIC & SUB- CONSCIOUS PLAN FOR THEM..HEHE. HE TARI,BOUGHT THE 64 TOO, THAT IS A IMPRESSIVE PIECE OF HARDWARE & IT HELPS ME WITH THOSE CRANKY S THAT COULD NOT BE RECORDED AUTOMATICALLY! - LEASE TELL OUR READER ABOUT WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR & WHAT DID YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH - = OR OTHER TYPICAL SITES THAT PROVIDE HISTORICAL INFORMATION OR HAVE DATABASES ABOUT GAMES FOR OLD COMPUTERS. REALLY WANT TO STAND AWAY FROM ALL THAT & PROVIDE THE ENTIRE COLLECTION JUST & CLEAN. ON THE INTERNET TODAY IS A TOTALLY MESSED UP CONCEPKVALLEY'S ULTI RCADE ONSOLE 2000) WHICH WAS AT FIRST INTENDED FOR GAMES ONLY, BUT THE PROJECT JUST BLEW OUT OF ITS BUBBLE & TODAY COVERS 16 DIFFERENT EMULATION SOFTWARE & ABOUT 26000 GAMES IN THE DATABASE - ALL WITH GENRE SPECIFICATION & TITLE SCEREO" STEREO-SID MIX OR OTHER NON- NATURAL SOFTWARE PROCESSING OF THE SOUND ITSELF LIKE SOFTWARE NOISE REDUCTION OR ANY FILTERS DONE VIA SOFTWARE TO TRY & CLEAN UP OR IMPROVE THE SOUND MATERIAL. WANTED TO KEEP IT GRITTY, NOISY & OF COURSE AUTHENTIC. HTHE = PROJECT. NOTHER IMPORTANT THING IS THAT RESPECT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPENT SO MUCH OF THEIR TIME ON COMPOSING S ON THE 64 DURING ALL THESE YEARS. 'VE ALWAYS LOVED THE DEMO-SCENE COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY (ALTHOUGH NEVER WAS A PART OF IT)  THE 64 SO MUCH THAT ACQUIRED NOT ONLY THE 6581, BUT ALSO A 8580 MACHINE INCLUDING A 1541 DRIVE & STARTED PLAYING AROUND AGAIN DURING 92-93-94, UNTIL DIED & SOLD THE 500 & 1200 IN 1997 & BOUGHT A YUCK 100MHZ ENTIUM . UT THE 64S WERE NEVER ING MY SUMMER VACATION 2007. O, GUESS STILL WILL BE PLAYING ON THE 64 AGAIN AND TRY TO PICK UP MORE ON THAT IN THE FUTURE. UT, NATURALLY THE RECORDING OF UPDATES WILL ALSO REQUIRE ME TO WORK ON 64 FOR SOME TIME TO COME. ND..OH.. YEAH, JUST  RMALIZE. UT ALSO VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME WAS TO PROVIDE THESE 3 FILES ON A CLEAN WEB DATABASE INTERFACE WITH NO COMMERCIAL BANNERS OR OOGLE ADS. WANTED THE SITE TO BE JUST FOR THE PROJECT & ABOUT THE PROJECT. SEE SO MUCH...CR** THESE DAYS ON  ME WAS COMPOSING MUSIC ON THE /MIDI/ TRACKERS/WITH MY PHYSICAL INSTRUMENTS (LIKE -303 & OLAND -8000). HE NEED FOR HEARING & SEEING 64 AGAIN HAPPENED SOMETIME DURING 2003, & AT THE END OF 2003 STARTED ON A CRAZY PROJECT CALLED (TONE A THE THE "AUTHENTIC" WORD REALLY IS WHAT THE PROJECT WAS ABOUT. Y GOAL WAS TO BRING FORWARD THE MUSIC JUST AS IT IS HEARD ON THE 64 IF YOU HOOKED A UNMODIFIED 64 TO YOUR TELLY/ SOUND SYSTEM TODAY. T IS ALSO A STEP BACK FROM OTHER IDEAS LIKE "PSEUDO STMY OWN 6581-8580.COM SITE & THE PATHWAY TO THE "FILE HOLDER" SITE WHICH HOLDS THE CORE OF THE ONLINE WEB DATABASE ENGINE. HE INTERFACE & BACKGROUND TOOLS WERE PROGRAMMED BY VEIN NGELSGJERD A.K.A AXHEAD & HE IS STILL THE MAINTAINER & NETWORK GURU FOR  PARTY WEBCODE/FUNCTIONALITES BEYOND WHAT IN MY GREATEST BELIEF WOULD BRING MY SITE ON A LEVEL THAT WOULD BE SIMILAR TO MANY OTHER ARCHIVE SITES OUT THERE IS IMPORTANT. HIS SITE SHOULD BE CLEAN AND 100% OUR DESIGN/FUNCTIONALITES ONLY! FSIC DURING A 4 MONTH PERIOD, AND DOING NUTTIN ELSE. GUESS ITS ALSO THE WORLDS LONGEST PROJECT THE OMMODORE 64 HAS EVER BEEN PUT THROUGH OR EVEN SUFFERED THROUGH :) T DID RUN FOR 24/7 WITH ONLY A 30 MINUTE BREAK (POWER OFF) EACH 5TH DAY. O DID THE 4 U HE = ROJECT HTTP://WWW.6581-8580.COM/INDEX.HTM 1 - LEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF - Y NAME IS TEIN IKESDAL A.K.A TONE AKVALLEY, 33 YEARS OLD, SINGLE FOR REASONS UNKNOWN (OKEY, LIVE OUT IN THE COUNTRY NEAR A VERY SMALL TOWN) & HAEWHERE. ATER WAS NATURALLY HOOKED & MY SISTER GOT AN TARI 2600 FOR THE FAMILY (WITH -, & THE SUPER CLASSIC STEROID CARTRIDGES). HE CRAZY THING, FOUND THE TARI CONSOLE AT HOME DURING EARLY 2006 & RESTORED IT, BUT MY FAVORITE GAME STETS IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY. ACH MACHINE WILL DURING THE ENTIRE RECORDING SEQUENCE BE RESET VIA THE USERPORT ABOUT 95000 TIMES..UESS THAT COUNTS FOR SOMETHING :) ND NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT BOTH OMMODORE 64'S WILL HAVE PLAYED ABOUT 1450 HOURS OF MUyX 'S INVOLVED TOO..BUT WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THOSE. HEY ARE ONLY WORKHORSES, BUT THE OMMODORE 64 IS PRECIOUSSSSSSSSS. R BEEN PUT THROUGH OR EVEN SUFFERED THROUGH :) T DID RUN FOR 24/7 WITH ONLY A 30 MINUTE BREAK (POWER OFF) EACH 5TH DAY. O DID THE 4 LOCAL GAS-STATION. GUESS IT WAS AROUND 1983/84. O THIS DATE CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT BOX THAT WAS ONLY REMEMBER A PLANE GOING AROUND VERTICALLY & RESCUING PEOPLE & FLYING THROUGH CAVES. ALSO REMEMBER SOME KIND OF BASE & THE LETTERS "" WRITTEN SOM LS REALLY, KINDA COOL TO SEE HOW JUST BOXES OF COLORS COULD BE DRAWN TO FORM KNOWN OBJECTS AND HUMANS FLOATING AROUND ON THE SCREEN. ND WITH THE LOW RESOLUTION THINK ACTUALLY STARTED COUNTING PIXELS BY LOOKING AT DEMOS & GAMES. HEN, OTHER KIDS AT SWILL NEVER BE ANY BANNERS OR STUFF MAKING US RICH ON THIS. , ! : "RE THERE ANY WORLD RECORDS INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT? : EHE, WELL NOT OFFICIALLY RECORDED BY UINESS ECORDS BUT GUESS MY OMMODORE 64 SUFFERED TO MOST RESU = ROJECT - HE = PROJECT IS AN AUTOMATED RECORDING TECHNIQUE INVENTED BY ME (TONE AKVALLEY) IN ORDER TO MASS RECORD MUSIC FROM THE LEGENDARY 64 AND ITS CHIPS (6581 & 8580). EALIZING THIS PROJECT NEEDED UNIQUE HAR THE HANG OF IT. T SCHOOL WOULD DRAW SPRITES ON THE GRID PATTERNED PAPER & WRITING DOWN ROUTINES JUST OUT OF THE BLUE & WHEN GOT HOME TYPE IT INTO THE 64 & CREATED ANIMATED SPRITES & EVEN MULTICOLORED SPRITES. HAD A SPECIAL INTEREST OF PIXECHOOL ALSO GOT HOLD OF 64'S & THEN THE EVERLASTING ERA OF LOADING TURBO TAPES & WATCHING DEMOS TOOK OFF IN 1988. WAS REALLY AMAZED ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF DEMOS. UST MUSIC, RASTER LINES, FLASHING COLORS & SCROLL TEXTS JUST BLEW ME AWAY. HE GREAT EXPERIELACK HUMOR BOOK ABOUT ORWEGIANS WORDS WITH LOTS OF "PUNS INTENDED" & THEN THE LATEST = PROJECT. - HAT INTRODUCED YOU TO OMPUTING? - WAS INTRODUCED TO COMPUTING DURING A RIDAY EVENING WHERE MY FATHER HAD BORROWED A GAME CONSOLE AT THE DS, GOOGLE AD CRAP ETC. THAT BENEFIT THE PROJECT IN QUESTION! ARNING MONEY ON THIS PROJECT (IN ANY WAY) WOULD BE SUBJECT TO LAW AS WE DO NOT OWN THE TUNES AND ARE THEY ARE OF COURSE COPYRIGHTED TO THEIR RESPECTIVE COMPOSERS/COMPANIES, SO THERE  HAD WAS ORCERY & INTER AMES ON TAPE. UT IT WAS ACTUALLY MORE INTERESTING TO READ THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL THAN PLAYING GAMES, BECAUSE THERE WAS SOME KIND OF & WHICH REALLY INTERESTED ME. O, STARTED TYPING IN PROGRAMS & REALLY GOTNCE CAME WHEN HEARD REAL SAMPLED DRUMS ON THE 64. COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. MUST HAVE HEARD THAT TUNE FOR SO MANY HOURS DAY AFTER DAY. HE DEMO WAS MADE BY UKULLUS & WAS NAMED "T'S DRUM TIME!". HE MUSIC WAS ULCEDO OGITATIONIS BY R. HRIS UELSBECK. O THIS DATE, THIS IS MY MOST FAVORITE TRACK ON THE 64. JUST LOVE THAT TUNE & THE DRUMS WERE GREAT. UCKILY FOR ME HAD THE 6581 MACHINE, BECAUSE IF THAT SONG WAS PLAYED ON THE 8580 CHIP WOULD NOT HEAR THE DRUMS SO MUCH & IT WOULD NOT MAKE THE  SOMETHING WOULD BE ADDED IT SHOULD BENEFIT THE PROJECT..LIKE THE EXTERNAL EMBEDDED LINK TO OUUBE MOVIE OF THE = PROJECT. UST A HEADS UP, THAT AM AWARE OF WHAT CLEAN AND SERIOUS CONCEPT/PROJECTS ARE ALL ABOUT EATH TO BANNERS, COMMERCIAL A VE BEEN WORKING AS A RAPHICAL ESIGNER IN A MARITIME DISPLAY/COMPUTER MANUFACTURER COMPANY SINCE 2000. HAVE A VERY CREATIVE PERSONAL LIFE FILLED WITH COMPOSING MUSIC, MAKING SHORT MOVIES, MUSIC VIDEOS, DESIGNING CRAZY HARDWARE, CO-WRITING A 300 PAGE BEROIDS WAS GONE. ELL, LUCKILY GOT TO PLAY SOME & ! - HAT IS YOUR FIRST EXPERIENCE OF =? - URING 87 OR 88 FINALLY GOT MY BELOVED 64 READBOX 6581 MACHINE. WAS SO AMAZED ABOUT THIS MACHINE AT THE AGE OF 13 14. HE FIRST GAMESSAME IMPRESSION. ND HAVING SAID THAT, THE 6581 SOUND IS OF COURSE MY PREFERRED CHOICE OF TODAY. UNNY HOW JUST HOW ONE MOMENT OF MUSIC DECIDE EVERYTHING FOR THE FUTURE. ELL SUDDENLY THE MIGA 500 CAME TO TOWN IN 1989 & JUST TOOK MY SOUL. HAD THE 64 ELY WITH THIS OPTION. (T MAY BE DUE TO DEFECTIVE FILES AND WAS CONFIRMED BY THAT THOSE TUNES NOTICED ON HAD BAD BYTES IN THEM....TYPICALLY A LOT OF THE \ \ILSEN_ONNY\XX.SID) UT SINCE HAD ALREADY ADDED A BETTER PHYSICAL G HERE. T SHOULD SAY; "OLD SCHOOL". HAT IS ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER WHEN YOU GREW UP, WHAT MADE YOU WHAT YOU ARE TODAY, YOUR MEMORIES AND YOUR EXPERIENCES WITH THE 64 WILL BE BACK AGAIN TO SAY HELLO WITH THE HELP OF REMEMBERING THE PAST AND THE OLD ED AS OF EB 2007. NOTHER GOAL IS OF COURSE TO FIX RECORDING ERRORS AND ISSUES WITH THE SONG LENGTHS. HIS IS A BIT MORE TRICKY AND MANUAL WORK WHICH WILL TAKE SOME TIME TO COMPLETE T JUST HAS TO BE FIXED WHEN IT IS DISCOVERED, SO PATIENCE IS KEY. LS IS ABOUT THE AND SOUND FROM REAL 64'S. TS THE KEY FACTOR! LL THE OLD COMPONENTS AND THEIR ANALOGIC SPECIFICATIONS MAKE UP THE SOUND OF THE 64. OST OF THE KEY COMPONENTS AROUND THE SOUND CHIP IS TODAY TOTALLY OBSOLETE NOT TO MENTION OD MEMORIES FROM THE 64 DAYS THAT WOULD LIKE TO EXPERIENCE TODAY IN OTHER SITUATIONS AND STILL GET A KICK OUT OF IT. T'S ABOUT HUMAN EXPLORATION AND PLAYING WITH YOUR MIND F YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, YOU'RE A ZOMBIE AND HAVE LOST YOURSELF...AND THAT MANUAL VERIFICATION THE 3 FILE WILL REPLACE PERHAPS A BAD RECORDING, A WRONG SONG LENGTHS TUNE OR JUST A PLAIN NEW TUNE ALTOGEHTER, THAT ARE NOT EVEN IN COLLECTION YET! HIS WILL AT LEAST LET TRUSTABLE USERS & FRIENDS OF = PROJECT CONTRIBUTE ILL GET ANYWAY WITHOUT ANY CONTRUCTING AND INSULTING THE SOUL OF 64? SE COMMON...NO SENSE! : "UT WHY DO YOU DO IT? HAT IS THE GAIN? HAT'S THE USE, ITS OUTDATED MATERIAL AND OLD!" : OR STARTERS, YOU ARE MISSING ONE WORD IN THE END T  ! : "HAT DO THE FUTURE HOLD FOR THE = PROJECT? : HE INTIAL GOAL OF = WAS TO PROCESS THE ENTIRE #45 ARCHIVE, AND THEN CONTINUE TO UPDATE THE ARCHIVE WHENEVER RELEASED A NEW PACK OF FIXES/NEW TUNES. HIS IS STILL UNCHANGATTACHED, NO NAGS, NO ADS, NO SHIT. HIS IS A RESPECTFUL ARCHIVAL PROJECT FOR THE FANS WHICH INCLUDES MYSELF AND THE WEBSITE SHOULD REFLECT THAT. O BY BRINGING IN A BUNCH OF OOGLE CRAP ADS, STUPID SEARCH ENGINES PLUGINS OR OTHER KIND OF THIRD- DULATED OUTPUT OF YOUR 64.". T SPECIFICALLY MENTIONS " MODULATED" AND NOTHING ABOUT THE / OUT CONNECTOR O CONFUSION IS HERE ALL RIGHT. : "HY NOT BUILD OR BUY DEDICATED NEWER HARDWARE FOR THE PURPOSE, SUCH AS ARD?" : GAIN, = AS AN ELECTRONIC AND INVENTIVE CHALLENGE THAT JUST TO DO. HALLENGES MAKE CHARACTER, AND IT IS INCREDIBLE FUN TO BE ABLE TO BE CREATIVE AND SET NO LIMITS, WHAT A BORING LIFE IF NOT. HEREFORE, JUST TO DO IT, AND ALSO BECAUSE HAVE SO MANY GO  SERVER, SPECIFIY FOR INSTANCE A NEW SONG LENGTH & OTHER PERFERENCES, ADD IT TO RECORDING QUEUE, PLAYED AND RECORDED BY MY AUTOMATED RECORDING TECHNIQUES (ON BOTH 6581 & 8580), AND THEN THE 3 FILE BEING PRESENTED AS IS ON A DIFFERENT DATA- BASE. PON  OLLECTION) JUST FOR FUN? HH, YEAH OF COURSE YOU COULD CANIBALIZE YOUR PRECIOUS 64 AND PUT ALL THE COMPONENTS ON A CARD AND PLAY ALONG, BUT MAN... YOU'RE DESTROYING A 64 FOR GODS SAKE, AND WHY BOTHER THEN WHEN = 3'S IS JUST WHAT YOU W ED ON ANYTING ELSE THAN THE ORIGINAL OMMODORE 64'S. LOT OF PEOPLE SEEM TO FORGET THIS INCREDIBLE IMPORTANT DETAIL WHEN DISCOVERING THE = PROJECT IN GENERAL. T IS JUST THE HUNT FOR THE REAL AUTHENTIC THING, AND STRESS THAT TOO MUCH. NNERS! : ARN MONEY ON THIS PROJECT? RE YOU RETARDED? OSTING THIS KIND OF MASSIVE COLLECTION ONLINE IS REALLY EASY...IF ONE CARED TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY! ND SO WE DID, NO - JUST PURE, CLEAN, SERIOUS AND THE TUNES READY FOR DOWNLOAD. O STRINGS ROUNDING AS MENTIONED ABOVE, THIS OPTION DID NOT HAVE ANY RELEVANCE TO THE = PROJECT AND WHERE REJECTED.URTHERMORE IN THE "CHANGELOG .TXT" FOR THE 64 PROJECT, IT STATES: "MPLEMENTED SCREEN BLANKING TO IMPROVE AUDIO QUALITY WHEN USING THE MO SCHOOL DAYS WITH CRUNCHY SOUND AND PIXELS IN 8 BIT, 16 COLOR. EMEMBER, TODAYS EQUIPMENT WILL BE OLD SCHOOL IN 20 YEARS, SO ITS ALL ABOUT REMEMBRANCE AND THE JOY OF "WHAT WAS". HERE IS NO GAIN, EXCEPT THE RESULT OF THE REAL AUTHENTIC 64 SOUND:). HIS W O REMEMBER THAT THIS RECORDING PROJECT IS DONE ENTIRELY BY ONE MAN, DUE TO THE HARDWARE NEEDED TO PROCESS THE TUNES! UT THERE MIGHT BE A INNOVATIVE CONCEPT BEEING PRESENTED DURING 2006: ND THIS INVOLVES THE POSSIBLITY FOR USERS TO UPLOAD FILES TO A THE ITSELF OU COULD GET 95% CLOSE (WITH HARDWARE )TO THE REAL SOUND OF 64, BUT DO WANT THAT? O, WANT THE 100% REAL THING AND SO SHOULD OTHERS FEEL TOO. O YOU THINK THE "" WORD IS PUT INTO THE = (TONE AKVALLEY'S UTHENTIC CAN'T BE REPAIRED.ORRY. NYWAY, APART FROM THAT DO NOT TRUST ELSE THAN THE REAL AUTHENTIC OMMODORE 64 PLAYING THE . VERYTHING ELSE IS EITHER EMULATED (BY SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE) AND DO NOT WANT TO LISTEN TO MUSIC NOT INTENDED TO BE PLAY TO HELP FIX THE WORLD LARGEST & MOST AUTHENTIC OMMODORE 64 MUSIC ARCHIVE UP TO A PERFECT STANDARD! HIS WILL WITHOUT A DOUBT BE A IMPORTANT ASSET TO THE= PROJECT.. : "O YOU GUYS EARN ANY MONEY ON THIS? ND, YOU KNOW WHAT...YOU COULD BY ADDING BA U = - REQUENTLY SKED ESTIONS: 2 : "HY 3? AND NOT , , LAIN OR "THAT OTHER PERSONAL FAVOURITE" FORMAT, DUDE? : T WAS A TOTALLY EGOISTIC AND PERSONAL CHOICE. HIS IS AFTERALL A PROJECT INTENTED FOR MY OWN AMUSE E. HE ICKSTART IS A COPYRIGHTED PIECE OF SOFTWARE. HEREFORE, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO JUST DOWNLOAD IT ANYWHERE FROM THE WEB. OU MUST OWN THE ORIGINAL KICKSTART S & MAKE AN IMAGE OF THEM USING THE METHOD DESCRIBED IN THE ARCHIVES. ISCLAIMER 2: SOUND SPECIFICATION WE WOULD EVER DREAM OF. HERE IS NO MORE WORK INVOLVED, THERE IS NO PROBLEM HAVING THE COMPUTERS AND 64 RECORD FOR 90 DAYS STRAIGHT WITH AN 30 MINUTE BREAK EACH 3TH DAY TO EXTRACT THE RESULTS. HAVE NO FURTHER COMMENTS. : "MM, ' EVISION WITH HORRIBLE SPEAKERS, OR YOU DID ACTUALLY HAVE A SOUND SYSTEM WITH INPUT. OW....WHAT DO YOU REALLY REMEMBER? HE THAT THERE (TRUST ME IT WAS, AND EVEN MORE THAT IN THE = RECORDING!) OR THE MUSIC ITSELF?.THE ANSWER IS THE MUSI ME, NOT AN OPTION. UT IN FUTURE, WHY NOT! REALLY CAN'T BELIEVE IF ANYBODY WOULD BE UNSATISFIED WITH THE = AUDIO QUALITY OF THE 3'S. HOSE HIGHER FREQUENCIES YOU CLAIM TO BE ISSUE WITH THE 3 ARE FREQUENCIES IN THE APPROX 18000Z-20000Z RANGE. THE ARTICLE ED SOME HELP THERE. ND THE REST? NLY TIME WILL TELL! EPRINTED WITH THE OPYRIGHT HOLDERS PERMISSION INFORMATION TAKEN FROM HTTP://HOME.HETNET.NL/WEEREN001/ OMMODORE REE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ENNIS VAN EEREN FOR ALLOWING THE REPRINT OF LD YOU REALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ID IT CAUSED SO MUCH OF A TROUBLE FOR YOU? O YOU USE THE SAME MUSIC EQUIPMENT TO LISTEN TO 64 MUSIC (3 VERSION) AS YOU DID THEN? O. OU WERE LIKE THE REST OF US EITHER CONNECTED TO A CRAPPY TEL THAT IDEA WAS TOTALLY IGNORED TOO! URTHERMORE ADD THE - B OPTION TO 64 (SCREEN BLANKING) ! HERE WERE TIPS ABOUT THIS REDUCING NOISE, YES ON THE 6581 NOTICED SO JUST MINORLY, BUT A NUMBER OF SONGS WERE DETECTED TO BE OUT OF SYNC COMPLET  OHHH DON'T WORRY...IT'S JUST ABOUT 90000 TUNES OF MANUAL PROCESSING WORK FOR YOU. EE YOU IN ANOTHER DIMENSION AND IN A GALAXY FAR FROM HERE! EMEMBER THAT THE = PROJECT IS AN AUTOMATED PROCESS, AND CAN BE RESTARTED ANYTIME, ANYWHERE WITH ANY ULD REALLY NEED SOME HELP THERE. ND THE REST? NLY TIME WILL TELL! EPRINTED WITH THE OPYRIGHT HOLDERS PERMISSION INFORMATION TAKEN FROM HTTP://HOME.HETNET.NL/WEEREN001/ OMMODORE REE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ENNIS VAN EEREN FOR ALLOWING THE REPRINT OF ETTER GO REAL INSTEAD, AND ALSO IS A NON TYPICAL FORMAT THAT ARE NOT "ALL OVER" COMPATIBLE "ALL OVER" EVERYWHERE. ND F TORY. : HAT WOULD BE DREAM, YES. UT IT WOULD TAKE 10 TIMES AS MUCH SPACE. O 400 X 10 THAT IS. OR THE YEARS TO CO OISE, BUT IF THE VOLUME WAS QUITE HIGH, THE NOISE WOULD BE REALLY TOTALLY GONE! E COULD OF COURSE DO SOME SOFTWARE POST PROCESSING TO REMOVE THE NOISE, HUMM ETC...BUT WE'D NEVER KNOW WHAT A TYPICAL ALL OVER SETTING WOULD DO TO PARTICULAR TUNE, SO  OUT OF THE / CONNECTOR ON THE OMMODORE 64 ITSELF. SO NATURALLY NOISE WILL EMERGE FROM THE CHIPS INSIDE. ELL, POPQUIZ: ID YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT THE NOISE BACK IN THE DAYS? ID YOU ACTUALLY HEAR IT AND DID YOU HATE THE 64 FOR THAT? OU ER. HAT WOULD LIKE TO SEE FIRST IS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SOME FORM OF HARDDISK SUPPORT, ETHERNET SUPPORT AND OFFCOURSE A DEBUGGED SPRITE ENGINE :-). T WOULD ALSO BE NICE IF THE VERILOG SOURCES OF INIMIG WOULD MAKE IT INTO A SOURCEFORGE PROJECT. CO 80) VS HE 18000Z-2000Z RANGE (IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE AT ALL?) ND THE BEST OF ALL. F ANYBODY HAVE BETTER RECORDINGS, THEY ARE FREE NATURALLY TO ENJOY THOSE. UT WHY NOT DO THE SAME THING WITH THE REST OF THE CURRENT AVAILABLE 64 MUSIC AS WELL... MENT. 3: T'S THE MOST COMMON FORMAT FOR ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE AND HARDWARE. ND OF STORY. : IGHT BE BETTER WITH THOSE "UNHEARABLE HIGH FREQUENCIES THAT YOU WOULD MISS IF YOU HAD NOTHING TO COMPARE TOO ANYWAY!" ND F TORY.: HY SHOULD ? OVED. Y WRITING "COMPLETELY" ITS ACTUALLY BASED ON THE SOUND MATERIAL ITSELF. URTHER STUDIES DURING THE RECORDING SHOWED THAT TUNES DID VARY IN VOLUME. O LOWER VOLUME MEANS THE "NORMALIZE" ROUTINE HAD TO BOOST THE FINAL OUTPUT MORE RESULTING IN MORE N F YOU DECIDE TO BUILT IT. O SO COMPLETELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. HIS IS NOT A BEGINNERS PROJECT. HAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR INIMIG? DON'T KNOW. Y HOPE IS THAT DUE TO THE PUBLIC LICENSE PEOPLE WILL DEBUG IT, EXPAND IT AND GENERALLY MAKE IT BETT M NOT REALLY IMPRESSED. CAN HEAR STATIC NOISE IN THE RECORDINGS! : GAIN, = IS ABOUT THE AND SOUND FROM REAL 64'S. TS THE KEY FACTOR! HE = PROJECT RECORDS BOTH MUSIC PLAYED ON A 8580 AND 6581 . T RECORDS THEM  OTE THAT THE I REQ CUTOUT EXAMPLE WAS BOOSTED BY 17, JUST TO GET THE MAXIMUM VOLUME FOR YOU TO LISTEN TOO.HE RIGINAL ECORDED (8580) VS HE 18000Z-2000Z RANGE (YOU CLAIM YOU CAN HERE THIS?? AYBE YOUR DOG WILL!)HE ROCESSED 3 ESULT (85 C OF COURSE, SO EASY! NYWAY, WHEN DOING TESTS DURING THE RECORDING, NATURALLY NOISE WAS DETECTED. UT, BY IMPROVING THE INTERNAL GROUNDING AND ALSO CONNECT THE ON THE CHIP TO THE NOISE APPARENT IN THE RECORDINGS WAS "COMPLETELY" REM IRST. SUITABLE REPLACEMENT FOR THE TYPE IS THE 6251216-55. HESE CHIPS CAN STILL BE BOUGHT FROM IGIKEY (PART NUMBER 706-1048-) HE CONTROLLER HE CONTROLLER FULLFILLS THE ROLE OF "BIOS". T IS A SINGLE CHIP 8-BIT MICROCONT  THE 'S. S THE 'S ARE NORMALLY RUN AT THE SO-CALLED CLOCK (709379Z), SPECIAL CIRCUITRY HAS BEEN ADDED TO ARY TO SLOW DOWN ACCESSES TO THE 'S TO APPROXIMATELY CLOCK SPEED. LK IS ALSO USED AS THE INIMIG'S PIXEL CLOCK. OR HIRES SCREEN F IT WANTS TO. ECAUSE THE DOES NOT SUPPORTS INTERNAL TRI-STATE BUSSES, ALL DEVICES ARE CONNECTED TOGETHER USING 'OR" GATES. HE CONVENTION IS THUS AS FOLLOWS; WHEN A DEVICE IS NOT SELECTED, IT DRIVES IT'S OUTPUTS LOW. HEN THE DEVICE IS SELECTED, EEP THE PROJECT MANAGEABLE HAVE KEPT THE SAME ORGANIZATION AS A REAL MIGA. HAT IS, HAVE KEPT THE ENISE FUNCTIONS IN A ENISE MODULE, GNUS FUNCTIONS IN AN GNUS MODULE ETC. HAVE EVEN KEPT A LOT AF THE SIGNAL NAMES THE SAME, SO THERE IS A DMAL SIGN ERNAL BUS IS USED AS BOTH THE CHIPRAM BUS AND FASTRAM BUS. LL MODULES (INCLUDING KICKSTART AREA AND 'S) CONNECT TO THIS BUS. HIS BUS IS TIME-MULTIPLEXED BETWEEN CHIPRAM AND FASTRAM/KICKSTART/'S. HE MULITPLEXING IS CONTROLLED BY GNUS AND THE HOR TROM RESETS THE SYSTEM. HE BOOTROM THEN DISAPPEARS FROM ADDRESS #0 AND THE SYSTEM BOOTS AS IF IT WERE A NORMAL MIGA. HE CODE FROM THE BOOTROM IS WRITTEN IN 68000 ASSEMBLY. HAVE USED THE FREEWARE 32 ASSEMBLER FROM THE REESCALE WEBSITE. HAVE MADE , SYNCHRONOUS MULTIPLEXED BUS. O COMPENSATE FOR THIS, THIS BUS IS CLOCKED AT 7.09379Z OR TWICE THE SPEED OF AN MIGA 500 BUS. HIS CLOCK IS THE INIMIG'S MAIN CLOCK (CALLED "CLK" IN THE CODE). T IS THE CLOCK FAR INIMIG SUB-SYSTEMS, INCLUDING OING A BUS CYCLE (READ OR WRITE) AND DMAWR INDICATES THAT THAT CYCLE IS A WRITE CYCLE. MAPRI INDICATES THAT GNUS ONLY HOLDS THE BUS BUS DOES NOT WRITE OR READ IT (GNUS DOES A "DUMMY CYCLE). F BOTH DMA AND DMAWR ARE INACTIVE, THE CAN USE THE BUS I  "ADDRESSES". DDRESS #0 IS SELECTED BY THE FPGA_SEL0 SIGNAL AND CONTROL THE FLOPPY EMULATOR. FPGA_SEL1 CONTROLS THE ON-SCREEN-DISPLAY. FPGA_SEL2 IS CURRENTLY UNUSED. ISCLAIMER 1: BOUT THE ICKSTART O FUNCTION, INIMIG NEEDS A KICKSTART ROM IMAG S APPLIED, HENCE THE "BIOS"LIKE FUNCTION. HE INIMIG USES A CONTROLLER TYPE 18252/. GENERAL INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE ESIDES THE PHYSICAL HARDWARE, THERE IS THE "PROGRAMMED" HARDWARE INSIDE THE .HIS HARDWARE IS DESCRIBED IN ERILOG. O K  IS USED BY THE BRIDGE TO CONTROL READ/WRITE TIMING. GACLK IS USED AS THE PIXELCLOCK FOR THE MBER SCANDOUBLER MODULE. LL CLOCKS ARE DERIVED FROM A SINGLE 4.433619Z CRYSTAL USING THE 'S MODULE (IGITAL LOCK ANAGER) HE INIMIG INT  DONE AS FOLLOWS; NCE THE IS CONFIGURED, THE SYSTEM IS BOOTED IN A SPECIAL STATE. N THIS STATE, A SMALL BOOTROM IS OVERLAYED AT ADDRESSS #0. HIS BOOTROM LOADS THE KICKSTART THROUGH THE FLOPPY EMULATOR. NCE THE KICKSTART HAS BEEN LOADED, THE BOO EE WEBPACK TOOL 9.1I FROM ILINX. INTERNAL BUS STRUCTURE AND CLOCKING SCHEME HIS NEEDS SOME EXPLANATION AS IT IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM A REAL MIGA 500. HEREAS THE MIGA 500 HAD A SEPERATE CHIPRAM BUS AND FASTRAM BUS, THE INIMIG HAS ONLY A SINGLE CLES IN CHIPRAM TO FIX SOME COMPABILITY PROBLEMS) SLOT 2'B11: CHIPRAM (DISK, BITPLANES, SPRITES, AUDIO AND 68000) HE GNUS MODULE PASSES THE SIGNALS DMA,DMAPRI AND DMAWR TO THE ARY MODULE TO INDICATE THE TYPE OF BUS SLOT. MA INDICATES THAT GNUS IS D 16 DRIVERS TO CONTROL THE FLASH CARD. HE FIRMWARE ALSO HANDLES THE USER- INTERFACE AND ON-SCREEN-DISPLAY. HE COMMUNICATES WITH THE THROUGH AN INTERFACE. HE CARD IS ALSO CONNECTED TO THIS BUS. N IT'S CURRENT FORM, THE HAS 2 ROLLER FROM ICROCHIP. HE CONTROLLER CONFIGURES THE (BY LOADING A CORE INTO IT), LOADS THE KICKSTART IMAGE INTO THE KICKSTART RAM AREA AND ACTS AS AN MIGA FLOPPY EMULATOR. HUS, THE CONTROLLER REALLY STARTS THE SYSTEM UP AS SOON AS POWER I -MODES CLK IS "DOUBLE PUMPED", WITH NEW PIXELS PUT OUT AT BOTH THE RISING EDGE AND THE FALLING EDGE OF CLK GIVING AN EFFECTIVE PIXEL RATE OF 14.18758Z. ESIDES CLK, TWO OTHER CLOCKS ARE GENERATED; QCLK AND VGACLK. CLK IS CLK SHIFTED BY 90 DEGREES.CLK IT DRIVES IT'S OUTPUTS WITH THE DATA IT WANTS TO WRITE. OOT SEQUENCE HE BOOT SEQUENCE IS A 2-STEP PROCESS. HE FIRST STEP IS TO CONFIGURE THE . IKE SAID, THIS IS DONE BY THE CONTROLLER. HE SECOND STEP IS TO LOAD THE ICKSTART IMAGE. HIS IS AL(AS WELL AS AN EXTRA DMAS SIGNAL), AN INT2 SIGNAL, AN OVL SIGNAL AND SO ON. ESIDES THESE STANDARD MODULES, THERE ARE ALSO 2 BRIDGE MODULES TO CONNECT THE HARDWARE TO THE AND 68000 CHIPS. HE CODE FOR THE HAS BEEN SYNTHESIZED USING THE FR IZONTAL PIXEL COUNTER "HORBEAM" HE LOWER 2 BITS OF HORBEAM DEFINE 4 TYPES OF BUS "SLOTS" : SLOT 2'B00: FASTRAM (68000) SLOT 2'B01: CHIPRAM (DISK, BITPLANES, COPPER, BLITTER AND 68000) SLOT 2'B10: FASTRAM AND BLITTER (NON STANDARD, GIVES CPU SOME MORE CY  IT AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD HERE AS CAN'T FIND IT ANYMORE ON THEIR (AGAIN...) REDESIGNED WEBSITE. CONTROLLER FIRMWARE AND TO COMMUNICATION HE 'S FIRMWARE IS WRITTEN IN I- ECH NSI . HE FIRMWARE CONTAINS (ULTI EDIA ARD) AND U -INIMIG N MIGA IN AN HAT IS INIMIG? INIMIG STANDS FOR INI MIGA. INIMIG IS AN -BASED REIMPLEMENTATION OF THE ORIGINAL MIGA 500 HARDWARE. N IT'S CURRENT FORM, INIMIG IS A SINGLE MEASURING ONLY 12*12CM WHICH MAKES IT THE SMALLES 3 STARTER BOARD, WHICH EXPANDED WITH A REAL 68000, AN UPGRADED VGA OUTPUT AND A - CONTROLLER BASED FLOPPY EMULATOR. HAT VERSION CAN BE SEEN IN THE PICTURE TO THE LEFT. ATER MOVED THE DESIGN TO IT'S OWN CUSTOM-DESIGNED WHICH CALLED REV ITOR SSEMBLER ** AMPLE DATA FILES FOR ACHINE ANGUAGE ISASSEMBLER 6502 IMULATOR ATA UILDER APE-TO-ISK OPY ISK-TO-APE OPY APE EADER ROGRAM ATA ROGRAM EARCH ORDRO ORD OUNTER ASY CRIPT ORD OUNTER ORDRO OURCE ILE RIN DE A SINGLE JOYSTICK. HINGS LIKE 'S, 'S AND WERE DISCUSSED AND BEING A HARDWARE ENGINEER, THEY IMMEDIATELY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. REMEMBER THAT THE DISCUSSIONS ENDED WITH THE CONCLUSION THAT IT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE TO PUT AN MIGA IN A JOYSTI LY STATIC (SO IT CAN RUN AT ANY FREQUENCY BETWEEN 0 AND MAX). HIS MAKES IT AN EXCELLENT COMPANION FOR THE PARTAN-3 AS THERE IS NO NEED FOR LEVEL-SHIFTING BETWEEN 3.3 AND 5 LEVELS. HE 68000 CONNECTS DIRECTLY TO THE . HE HE INIM : HE HE 68000 HE HE CONTROLLER HE HE IS THE HEART OF THE INIMIG. HE USED IS A 400GATE PARTAN-3 BYILINX. LL THE OTHER MAJOR COMPONENTS ( AND 68000) CONNECT DIRECTLY TO THE . HE IMPLEMENTS THE MIGA CUSTER ASY CRIPT OURCE ILE RINTER INANCE OUSE NVENTORY ATE OOK IME ILLING OLITAIRE LACK RIDAY LSO INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE: HREE TEXT FILES WITH THE DISK DIRECTORIES MAGE OF RIGINAL PACKAGE LABEL(.PDF) D OUNTER ORDRO OURCE ILE RIN OARD AND STARTED CODING! T TOOK ME ALMOST A YEAR TO GET THE INIMIG TO BOOT IT'S FIRST GAME (WHICH WAS EMMINGS, BY THE WAY). T WAS AND IS THE LARGEST HOBBY PROJECT HAVE EVER STARTED. HE FIRST VERSION OF INIMIG WAS BUILT AROUND A IGILENT PARTAN- UST BE LOADED WITH A "CORE" UPON STARTUP. HIS IS DONE BY THE CONTROLLER DESCRIBED BELOW. HE 68000 HE 68000 IS THE INIMIG'S MAIN PROCESSOR. HE INIMIG USES A SPECIAL VERSION OF THE 68000: THE 68000. HIS VERSION RUNS AT 3.3 AND IS COMPLETE  FILES CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE DOWNLOAD SECTION. ISTORY HE IDEA TO MAKE INIMIG STARTED AROUND JANUARY 2005. HE 64 HAD JUST BEEN RELEASED AND THE MIGA FORUMS WERE BUZZING DISCCUSSING THE POSSIBILITY OF PUTTING A COMPLETE MIGA WITH GAMES INSIU OMMODORE ISK RCHIVE ROJECT -BY ILL EGNAN - ERE ARE DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE 64 WITH -ET TO MAKE BACKUPS OF OMMODORE 64/128 DISK LIBARY. EE BELOW FOR A LINK TO GET MOST OF THE FILES YOU'LL NEED. : OU WILL NEED TO TURN THE 64 OFF D WITH A FLASH CARD SLOT AND A MICROCONTROLLER BASED FLOPPY EMULATOR. HE FLASH CARD HOLDS THE DISK-IMAGES WHICH CAN BE "LOADED" INTO THE INIMIG USING A CONVENIENT ON-SCREEN-DISPLAY. HE (PHYSICAL) HARDWARE OF THE INIMIG CONSISTS OF 4 MAJOR PARTS USIAST. E DID SOME PROGRAMMING DURING HIS PREVIOUS JOB.HE MORE HE TOLD ME ABOUT 'S AND THE MORE DUG INTO MY OLD MIGA LITERATURE, THE MORE BECAME CONVINCED THAT IT COULD INDEED BE DONE ND SO IT STARTED, LEARNED ERILOG, BOUGHT AN B EA, CHIP RAM AND (RANGER) FAST RAM. S THE INIMIG HAS NO KICKSTART SOCKET, THE KICKSTART IMAGE MUST BE LOADED UPON STARTUP. HIS IS DONE BY THE CONTROLLER DESCRIBED BELOW. NCE LOADED, WRITES TO THAT AREA OF THE ARE DISABLED AND THE AREA ACTS LI VERTER, 2-TO- MIGA-MOUSE CONVERTER AND AS AN (ON-SCREEN DISPLAY) GENERATOR. LL OF THESE FUNCTION WERE NOT PRESENT IN THE ORIGINAL MIGA, BUT MAKE LIFE MUCH EASIER NOW THAT WE ARE LIVING IN THE 21TH CENTURY! HE PARTAN-3 IS A RAM-BASED AND M T "MIGA" EVER MADE & THE FIRST NEW "MIGA" IN ALMOST 14 YEARS! INIMIG IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AS AN OPEN-SOURCE/OPEN-HARDWARE DESIGN UNDER THE PUBLIC LICENSE. HIS PAGE DESCRIBES THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE INNER WORKING OF THE INIMIG. LL DESIGN 1.0. HAT IS THE VERSION THAT IS DESCRIBED HERE. INIMIG REV1.0 TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION HE INIMIG REV1.0 IS BUILT ON A SINGLE 12*12CM THAT CONTAINS ALL COMPONENTS TO MAKE UP A COMPLETE MIGA T HAS NO FLOPPY DRIVE OR HARDDISK. NSTEAD IT IS EQUIPPE KE A READ-ONLY MEMORY. HE REMAINING PART OF THE (1.5BYTE) IS DIVIDED UP BETWEEN CHIP AND FAST RAM. : HE CHIPS USED IN INIMIG REV1.0 ARE OBSOLETE.F YOU WANT TO BUILD A INIMIG REV1.0, PLEASE CHECK THE AVAILABILITY OF ALL USED PARTS F CK BUT THAT IT WOULD BE A VERY DIFFICULT TASK. HE FIRST STEP OF SUCH AN UNDERTAKING WOULD BE TO REVERSE ENGINEER THE MIGA CHIPSET & RUN IT INSIDE AN . HE FOLLOWING WEEKS DISCUSSED THIS IDEA WITH A COLLAEGUE WHO ALSO HAPPENED TO BE AN MIGA ENTH IG REV1.0 BOARD CONTAINS 2BYTE OF 70NS STATIC RAM. HE IS ORGANISED AS 2 524288*16 BANKS. ACH BANK HAS SEPERATE ENABLES FOR THE UPPER AND LOWER BYTE. HE IS USED TO IMPLEMENT THE 3 TYPES OF MEMORY NEEDED BY THE INIMIG, NAMELY: KICKSTART ROM AR TOM CHIPS ENISE, GNUS, AULA AND ARY AS WELL AS BOTH 8520 'S. T ALSO IMPLEMENTS A SIMPLE VERSION OF MBER SO THAT MONITORS CAN BE CONNECTED. ESIDES THIS, THE ALSO ACTS AS AN AUTOMATIC JOYSTICK-MOUSE-SWITCHER, A 2-TO- MIGA-KEYBOARD CON N PRINT BY O TARCH RESS. ND MNIGRAPHICS USED MY DATA TO HELP PUBLISH THEIR OWN COMPUTER INDUSTRY REFERENCE BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES HE ACKAGE HIS PACKAGE INCLUDES MANY OF MY EARLY ORIGINAL MAGAZINE ARTICLES, PROGRAMS AND PROGRAMMING IDEAS FOR THE OM  DISKS DISTRIBUTED IN THE ORIGINAL OMMODORE- 64 ROGRAMMER'S IBRARY PACKAGE. WO OF THE DISKS PROVIDE COPIES OF ALL THE PRINTED DOCUMENTATION FILES WHILE THE THIRD DISK PROVIDES ALL THE LOADABLE PROGRAM FILES PLUS SAMPLE DATA FILES HERE ARE ALSO THREE  HOSE FILES ARE AVAILABLE IN A SEPARATE DOWNLOAD FILE. HIS PACKAGE INCLUDES 64 DISK IMAGE FILES FOR EACH OF THE THREE ORIGINAL 1541 FORMAT FLOPPY DISKS. WO DISKS PROVIDE THE ORIGINAL TEXT FILES FOR THE BOOK WHILE THE THIRD FILE PROVIDES ALL THE ORIGI DING TO YOUR LOCAL HARD DRIVE. ROGRAM LISTINGS ARE INCLUDED BUT ACTUAL LOADABLE PROGRAMS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS FILE. HE 273 64ROGIB64.ZIP FILE CONTAINS STANDARD 64 DISK IMAGE FILES FOR EACH OF THE THREE 1541 FLOPPY DISKS DISTRIBUTED IN THE O  MAGAZINES OF THE 1970'S AND 1980'S WHEN WAS WRITING THE POURRI COLUMN FOR ILOBAUD ICROCOMPUTING MAGAZINE. FAIR AMOUNT OF THE MATERIAL WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR THE OMMODORE AND SYSTEMS, THEN REWRITTEN AND UPDATED FOR THE -20 AND O ROSSREFERENCE / ROSSREFERENCE ISK ASTER - ISK ATALOGING TILITY ROM ASIC TO SSEMBLY ANGUAGE ETTING TARTED IN SSEMBLY ANGUAGE ROGRAMMING ISASSEMBLER ROGRAM - DITOR/SSEMBLER ROGRAMS ATA UILDER TILITY HE OUTINE E CHECK MY BLOG AT WWW.RBAKERPC.BLOGSPOT.COM HE OMMODORE-64 ROGRAMMER'S IBRARY - LL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT (C) 1984 -OBERT . AKER OTE: HIS PARTICULAR IP ARCHIVE INCLUDES STANDARD 64 DISK IMAGE FILES FOR THE THREE 1541 FLOPPY BEL IS INCLUDED IN A SEPARATE DOBE CROBAT (.PDF) FILE IN THIS PACKAGE. UST RECENTLY CAME ACROSS THE ORIGINAL PRINTED MANUSCRIPT FOR THIS PACKAGE AND DECIDED TO SCAN THE MATERIAL INTO AN CROBAT FILE AND MAKE IT AVAILABLE AGAIN TO ANYONE INTERESTED. INT TILITIES INANCE - SIMPLE FINANCIAL CALCULATOR HE FOLLOWING LOADABLE PROGRAM FILES ARE INCLUDED: OC RINTER -PRINTS THE BOOK TEXT FILES ISK ASTER OMPACTOR NCOMPACTOR ASIC ROGRAM YMBOL IST ASIC ROGRAM ROSSREFERENCE EX UMP D MS, THEN REWRITTEN AND UPDATED FOR THE -20, OMMODORE-64 AND OMMODORE-128 SYSTEMS. HE 10 64ROGIB.ZIP FILE CONTAINS A NUMBER OF DOBE CROBAT (.PDF) FILES THAT CAN BE EASILY VIEWED AND PRINTED, EITHER DIRECTLY FROM THIS WEBSITE OR AFTER DOWNLOA E PRINTED DOCUMENTATION FILES PLUS PROGRAM LISTINGS ARE PROVIDED IN A SEPARATE IP ARCHIVE. HIS PACKAGE INCLUDES MANY OF MY EARLY ORIGINAL MAGAZINE ARTICLES, PROGRAMS AND PROGRAMMING IDEAS FOR THE OMMODORE 64 THAT APPEARED IN VARIOUS OMMODORE RELATED ASIC UIRKS OKING ROUND IN ASIC OMPUTED S APE UICKIES EX ILE UMP TILITY ATA ILE OPY TILITY APE ILE OTES ISK ASICS ISK OMMAND ONVERSIONS ISK INT HE OMMAND ISK NTERNALS ISK ROGRAMMING IPS YMBOL IST ARIABLE FILES INCLUDED IN THE ARCHIVES AND THOSE PASSWORDS WILL BE EMAILED TO YOU AFTER PAYMENT IS RECEIVED. LL MATERIAL OPYRIGHT (C) 1984 - OBERT . AKER OR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ME PERSONALLY, MY PAST WRITING ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES, PLEAS WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN TO BE PUBLISHED AS A BOOK BUT THE DEAL FELL THROUGH AT THE LAST MINUTE. HE PACKAGE WAS EVENTUALLY DISTRIBUTED IN ELECTRONIC FORM ON DISKETTE BY A PUBLISHER IN LLINOIS FOR SEVERAL YEARS. Y THE WAY, A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL COVER LA  HE MULATOR ROGRAM HE OMMODORE-64 HIP SING ENITH S DDITIONAL MATERIAL LATER ADDED TO THE ORIGINAL COLLECTION: OMPACTOR - ASIC PROGRAM COMPACTOR UTILITY NCOMPACTOR - REVERSE UTILITY TO UNCOMPACT ASIC PROGRAM ORD RO ISK/APE R MODORE 64 THAT APPEARED IN VARIOUS OMMODORE RELATED MAGAZINES OF THE 1970'S AND 1980'S WHEN WAS WRITING THE POURRI COLUMN FOR ILOBAUD ICROCOMPUTING MAGAZINE. FAIR AMOUNT OF THE MATERIAL WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR THE OMMODORE AND SYSTE TEXT FILES INCLUDED THAT PROVIDE COPIES OF THE DIRECTORIES OF THESE THREE FLOPPY DISK IMAGES PLUS A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE LABEL IN ANOTHER DOBE CROBAT (.PDF) FILE AS WELL. DDITIONAL DOBE CROBAT (.PDF) FILES PROVIDING SCANNED COPIES OF ALL TH NAL PROGRAM FILES IN LOADABLE FORM PLUS A SIMPLE UTILITY TO PRINT THE TEXT FILES FOR THE BOOK. *RIEF OVERVIEW OF MATERIAL INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE: OMMON ENSE ROGRAMMING AVING PACE AVING IME ROGRAMMING TYLE EBUGGING INTS ETTING NTO ASIC RIGINAL PACKAGE. WO DISKS PROVIDE ELECTRONIC COPIES OF ALL THE DOCUMENTATION FILES INCLUDED IN THE FIRST ZIP ARCHIVE WHILE THE THIRD DISK PROVIDES LOADABLE COPIES OF ALL THE ACTUAL PROGRAM FILES. OTE THAT YOU WILL NEED A PASSWORD TO ACCESS THE ACTUAL MMODORE 64 SYSTEMS. HIS IS A COLLECTION OF MANY DIFFERENT IDEAS WRITTEN OVER SEVERAL YEARS SO THERE IS NO SPECIFIC THEME TO THIS PACKAGE. 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ELL THEY VARY CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE AN IDEA BUT AM LOOKING FOR UTORIALS (BEGINNERS AND XPERT) XPERIENCES WITH OMMODORE HY LOVE COMMODORE MACHINES NTERVIEWS MAYBE YOU HAVE ACCESS TO A POWER USER HANKS IGELOFESSIONAL 500 (V1.2) FREEZER CARTRIDGE EMULATION. -ORDIC OWER (V2.0) FREEZER CARTRIDGE EMULATION. -EBUGGER IMPROVEMENTS (IMPROVED DEEP TRAINER, COPPER MEMWATCH POINTS, MODEL SPECIFIC REGISTERS CAN BE MODIFIED,ILLEGAL ACCESS LOGGER IMPROVED, PROCES==== ** 128 CHANGES -DDED 2 Z MODE SUPPORT (EXPERIMENTAL) -HE CURSOR KEYS ARE MAPPED DIFFERENTLY IN 64-MODE NOW. -IXED 64-MODE AUTOSTART SUPPORT. ** 20 CHANGES -MPROVED THE SOUND EMULATION WHERE THE 'VOLUME CHANGE CLICK' IS CONCERNED AND NO RMALIZED THE AUDIO OUTPUT LEVEL. ** - -HE - BORDER MODE CAN BE SELECTED NOW (NORMAL, FULL, DEBUG) -OME SPRITE FIXES NEEDED FOR RESTAGE 3 DEMO. ** RIVE CHANGES -MPROVED DRIVE EMULATION. ** NIX CHANGES -IXED THE "BLACK SCREEN" BUG CAIS ISSUE HANKS IGEL WWW.COMMODOREFREE.COM K THE BEST WAY TO HELP WOULD BE TO WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT OMMODORE (YES FOR THE OBSERVANT SPELLED THE COMPANY CORRECTLY THIS TIME) GRIN SERIOUSLY THOUGH ARTICLES ARE ALWAYS W00 ICKSTART AND UPERICKSTART DISK SUPPORT. -590/2091 , 3000 AND EXPANSION HARDDRIVE () EMULATION (3393 + (UPER) BASED HARDWARE) -CTION ARTRIDGE UPER ROFESSIONAL FREEZER CARTRIDGE EMULATION. --OWER RSYSTEM LOCKED FILES (MOST COMMONLY S:STARTUP-SEQUENCE) AFTER SOFTWARE RESET -ILESYSTEM EMULATION NOT INITIALIZING IF WAS ENABLED AND NO OTHER EXPANSIONS ENABLED (FAST , 3 FAST, ETC. 1.22 ELEASED * HANGES IN 1.22 ================USED BY SOME 11 LIBRARY SECURITY UPDATE. -IXED THE USB SUPPORT FOR BSD BASED PLATFORMS. -HANGED THE PREFERRED LIBDIR AND DOCDIR FOR NETBSD AND FREEBSD. -AW/AND FULLSCREEN MODE IS SUPPOSED TO WORK. ** -INDOWS CHANGES -OSITIONAL KEYBOARD MAPPINST AS YOU CAN TELL AND HAVE DESIGNED A NEW LOGO FOR THE MAGAZINE, THE OLD ONE WAS REALLY A STOP GAP BECAUSE, IT WAS A CASE OF USING THAT OR ELSE NOTHING. 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WELL YOU NEED TO READ THE ISSUE AND ALL WILL BE REVEALED AM NO ARTI RO CCESS -CTION ARTRIDGE LOADER DISKS/DISK IMAGES. (NON-V1.3 GERMAN) -CTION EPLAY (NON V1.00, V1.50, V2.05, V2.12, V2.14, V3.09, V3.17) (OR CARTRIDGE IMAGES IF YOU HAVE () READER. OTE: S ARE SCRAMBLED. IN 1.4.3 (29.07.2007) ====== PICASSO96FIX) UGS FIXED: - EMULATION IMPROVED (2, ENON2, HAOSNNDROMEDA PLAYER) -32 EMULATION IMPROVED (IGHTIN' PIRIT, ASE UMPERS ETC. -HOSTSCRIPT PRINTING FIXED (AGAIN) -LOPPY DRIVE SOUND SELECTION IF FDRAWCMD.SYS WAS NOT INSTBINARY FILES ARE NOW PART OF THE SOURCE DISTRIBUTION. ** MIGA CHANGES -DDED NETPLAY SUPPORT FOR MIGA3 PORT. -DDED NETPLAY SUPPORT FOR PORT. -EW OLUME CONTROL FOR ALL PORTS ** 1541 CHANGES -IXED SOME UNLYNX BUGS. HTTP://WWW.VICETEAU EXFILES ART 7 HTTP://WWW.OLDSCHOOL-GAMING.COM/ Y ASON ELK KAY, SO WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME? H, YES REMEMBER, WAS GOING TO EXPLAIN $018 DOES, WASN'T ? KAY, WELL WHILE 'M HERE MIGHT AS WELL EXPLAIN SOME OF THE REST OF THE VIDEOCHIP ATGN A CARDEDGE (CHECK THE ATTACHED IMAGE) IN THE USE (EAGLE BY ADOFT) BUT WASN'T ABLE TO DO SO WITHOUT A TRICK THAT REQUIRES MANUAL CUT OF THE BOARD. WILL RESEARCH MORE ON THIS BECAUSE AN ON-BOARD CARDEDGE WOULD BE THE CHOICE FOR THE FINAL BOARDIS: CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME TO FIGURE OUT HOW MANY PERSONS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A 2? T WILL COST 35-40 POUNDS ABOUT WITHOUT ANY EXTERNAL LEAD OR IF WE MANUFACTURE 25 OF THESE NEW BOARDS (SOME COMPONENTS COME FROM , SHIPPING IS 35 , CUSTOMS CHARGED ME 18 EUROS THE LAST TIME ORDERED SOME PARTS) FCOURSE, IF 50 OF THEM ARE MANUFACTURED, THE PRICE WOULD BE SMALLER. HANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP. HEERS, UIGI URE 25 OF THESE NEW BOARDS (SOME COMPONENTS COME FROM , SHIPPING IS 35 , CUSTOMS CHA POINT AT ANY 2 BLOCK IN THE PRESENT BANK. ITS 1, 2 AND 3 OF $018 CONTROL THIS, ALLOWING THE TO SEE ANY ONE OF THE EIGHT POSSIBLE STARTING POINTS FOR THE CHARACTER DATA AND SETTING THE BITS TO $0 WILL PUT THE CHARACTER SET AT $0000 USING $2 WILE MENU ON THE LEFT, THEN " KTUELL USGABE 1(UGUST 2007)" & FINALLY THE LINK "UGUST 2007" ROJECT PDATE 2 > I IGEL, > > BASICALLY WHAT AM STILL IN NEED OF IS THE DESIGN TOOL FOR THE FINAL CIRCUIT BOARDS. HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DESIMAKE THEM, INSTEAD OF HAVING THEM MANUFACTURED BY A COMPANY THAT CHARGES US SO MUCH. ERSION 1.4 OF THE BASE 2 BOARD WILL INCORPORATE THAT CARD EDGE CONNECTOR, SO THERE WILL NOT BE REASON OF CONCERN IF WE'LL WANT TO HAVE IT MANUFACTURED. UESTION NOW TART OF MEMORY TO $3 (AND THE DEFAULT, SO FOR NOW WE WILL KEEP WORKING IN IT) WHILST BANK 3 IS THE LAST, AT $000 TO $. 64 CHARACTER SET CONTAINS 256 CHARACTERS, SO WITH EIGHT BYTES PER CHARACTER THATS A TOTAL OF 2 NEEDED AND IT'S POSSIBLE TO L MEAN THE FONT IS AT $0800 ALL THE WAY UP (IN STEPS OF TWO) UNTIL WE GET TO $, WHICH MEANS $3800 HAS THE FONT DATA. IMILARLY, THE 64 NEEDS 1 FOR A SCREEN AND BITS 4 TO 7 OF $018 ARE USED TO REPRESENT WHERE THE SCREEN IS LIVING. INCE THERE ARE 16 REATING THIS MAGAZINE? ENDERERING PICTURES - PART 1 UTORIAL - CARDS ON MIGA HERE OMMODORE COMPUTERS ARE BEING USED NOWADAYS? OW DOES ACK RAMIEL LOOK LIKE THESE DAYS? - HE ALL-ROUNDER O DOWNLOAD, GO TO WWW.SCACOM.DE.VU CLICK IN THIT/TCENGINEE R/C64/DC2N/DIARY.HTML#29UG07 ROBLEM IS THAT WHEN WE ASKED FOR A QUOTE FOR 25 OF THEM MANUFACTURED, THEY TOLD US IT WOULD COST 6.30 POUNDS EACH!AY TOO MUCH TO AFFORD THEM! T MAY BE HELPFUL TO FIND SOME HOBBYIST IN THAT CAN HELP US TO  CHARACTER SET ARE STORED. ND BEFORE GO ON, A LITTLE LESSON IN ARCHITECTURE IS NEEDED. HE 64 HAS, AS WE KNOW, 64 OF MEMORY BUT THE - CHIP ISN'T ABLE TO USE IT ALL AT ONCE, INSTEAD IT USES 1 OF 4 "BANKS" OF 16, BANK 0 IS THE LOWEST, FROM THE SPOSSIBLE SCREENS IN EACH BANKADING FROM, $0 WILL PUT IT DOWN AT $0000 AND $ LOCATES IT AT $300. HE ACTUAL DEFAULT FOR $018 IS $14, THE UPPER 4 BITS ARE SET TO $1 SO THE SCREEN IS AT $0400 & THE LOWER 4 ARE $4 SO THE FIFTH CHARACTER SET IN IS USED, AT M.ORG/#VICE -KTUELL ISSUE 1 -KTUELL ISSUE 1 (UGUST 2007) -KTUELL IS A NEW MAGAZINE IN ERMAN LANGUAGE FOR OMMODORE AND MIGA FANS. SSUE 1 (UGUST 2007) GOT RELEASED TODAY. OPICS ARE: MAGAZINE INTRODUCES ITSELF. HO IS C ES IN EAGLE,OR HAVE THEM DESIGNED WITH A DIFFERENT SOFTWARE. HANK YOU. HEERS,UIGI I IGEL, 'M AFRAID THERE'S SOMETHING MORE INTERESTING TO PUBLISH. TOLD YOU DESIGNED THE MISSING PART OF THE BOARD, AS PER BELOW: HTTP://DIGILANDER.LIBERO. THE SAME TIME. IRST OFF, THERE ARE SOME CONVENTIONS THAT WE'LL USE USE HERE, THE BITS OF A BYTE ARE REFERRED TO AS 0 FOR THE LOWEST BIT THROUGH TO FOR THE HIGHEST. KAY, SO AS PROMISED LETS START WITH $018, WHICH IS A POINTER TO WHERE THE SCREEN AND $1000. HE REASON THE 64 DEFAULTS LIKE THIS IS BECAUSE A "SHADOW" COPY OF THE CHARACTER SET IS STORED AT $1000 WITH THE LOWER CASE VERSION AT $1800. QUICK DEFINITION OF SHADOWING IS IN ORDER, THINK. HE 64 ONLY HAS 64 OF BUT THE TAKE (YES THE ONE THAT WILL COME INSIDE A NICE BOX WITH SOME BUTTONS THE , ALL THE CONNECTORS, & MAYBE A & A SERIAL CABLE) T WOULD HELP IF YOU COULD SHOW AROUND THIS PICTURE SENT YOU AND ASK PEOPLE TO GIVE ME HELP ABOUT HOW TO DESIGN THOSE CARDEDGS ANOTHER 32. ECAUSE THE 6510 CAN'T ACCESS MORE THAN 64 AT ANY ONE TIME (IT CAN ONLY LOOK AT $0000 TO $) THE HAS TO EXIST WITHIN THAT SPACE. UT THAT WOULD TAKE UP VALUABLE MEMORY FROM PROGRAMS. O THE S ARE ALL SHADOWED OVER OTHER MEMORY,N JUST LIKE $021 (THE BACK- GROUND COLOUR) BUT ONLY AFFECT MULTI- COLOR AREAS ON CHARACTERS USING COLORS $08 TO $0. UR FOUR POSSIBLE COLOURS THEREFORE COME FROM THE CHARACTER COLOUR, $021 FOR THE BACKGROUND COLOUR AND THE TWO MULTICOLOURS, GIVING FOUEAR AS THEY ARE STORED, INSTEAD THE BITS ARE GROUPED TOGETHER IN TWOS HORIZONTALLY & THE 2 BIT NUMBER THEY PRODUCE REPRESENTS 1 OF 4 COLOURS. HIS REDUCES THE HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION OF THE SCREEN BY HALF BECAUSE EACH CHARACTER IS NOW ONLY FOUR PIXELS WIDEBITMAP SCREEN MODE IF SET, INSTEAD OF THE NORMAL 256 CHARACTER SET THE CHIP TAKES A BLOCK OF 8,000 BYTES, 8 FOR EACH CHARACTER SQUARE OF THE SCREEN,SO REALLY IT'S JUST LIKE HAVING A *VERY* LARGE CHARACTER SET. ITMAP MODE HAS A FEW DISADVANTAGES OVER AT $1000 WORKS THE OTHER WAY AROUND,IF WE POINT THE - AT IT WE ONLY SEE THE FONT, NO MATTER WHAT DATA WE PUT THERE. UT WE CAN HAPPILY PUT DATA INTO THAT , READ IT OUT OR RUN PROGRAM CODE FROM THERE WITHOUT THAT FONT AFFECTING WHAT WE'RE DOIMPLE. UT THE MOST INTERESTING USE FOR BITMAPS IS WITH MULTICOLOUR ON, SO WE SET $016 TO $18 AND NOW WE HAVE LOTS OF COLOURS. HY? ELL, AT $0400 TO $077 WE HAVE 1,000 BYTES OF COLOUR INFORMATION, 2 COLOURS PER CHARACTER. UT IN MULTI- COLOUR BITMAP MORMAL EIGHT PIXEL WIDE CHARACTERS BUT USING COLOURS $08 TO $0 PRODUCES THOSE EIGHT COLOURS AGAIN BUT IN MULTICOLOUR MODE. O WHERE DOES THE COLOUR INFORMATION FOR OUR TWO NEW COLOURS COME FROM? $022 AND $023 ARE THE MULTICOLOUR REGISTERS. HEY FUNCTIOITS 0 TO 2, ALONG WITH BIT 3 WHICH CONTROLS THE MASKS AT THE SIDES OF THE SCREEN IN THE SAME WAY AS $011. IT 4 IS USED TO SET MULTICOLOUR MODE, ONE OF THOSE LITTLE QUIRKS OF THE 64'S VIDEO SYSTEM. HEN MULTICOLOUR MODE IS ON THE PIXELS DON'T JUST APPONTROLS THE SCREEN, IF IT'S SET THE SCREEN IS ON,OTHERWISE THE BORDER COVERS IT. URNING THE SCREEN OFF MAY SEEM A LITTLE POINTLESS BUT THERE ARE PURPOSES, FOR EXAMPLE HIDING THE SCREEN UNTIL THE GRAPHICS HAVE BEEN SET UP. IT 5 OF $011 WILL ACTIVATE NT THE - CHIP AT IT WE DON'T SEE THE DATA, JUST OUR GRAPHICS. HIS MEANS THAT WE GET ALL THE S WE NEED AND *STILL* HAVE THE SPACE THEY OCCUPY IN THE , THEY'RE THERE BUT IN AN INSUBSTANTIAL WAY, HENCE THE NAME SHADOW. HE CHARACTER SET00 "CHARACTERS" ON THE SCREEN, EACH WITH IT'S OWN INDIVIDUAL COLOURS. HE LOWER 4 BITS OF THE SCREEN (IN THIS EXAMPLE AT $0400) REPRESENT ONE OF THE COLOURS & THE UPPER FOUR A SECOND, $00 WILL SET BOTH TO BLACK AND $ WILL MAKE THEM LIGHT GREY FOR EXAHAVE SIXTEEN COLOURS, VALUES $00 TO $0. UT MULTICOLOUR MODE ALLOWS US TO MIX STANDARD CHARACTERS AND MULTICOLOUR ONES BECAUSE THE FIRST EIGHT COLOURS (BLACK, WHITE, RED, CYAN, PURPLE, GREEN, DARK BLUE AND YELLOW, VALUES $00 TO $07) WILL PRODUCE THEIR NEY HAVE MORE COLOURS AVAILABLE TO THEM. WILL BE COVERING THE BASICS OF BIT- MAPS IN MORE DETAIL A LITTLE FURTHER ON $016 HAS BEEN COVERED BEFORE, WE USED IT IN THE ERRIS DEMO TO SCROLL THE MESSAGE ACROSS THE SCREEN & SMOOTH SCROLLING IS THE JOB OF BET THE VERTICAL SMOOTH SCROLLING AND BIT 3 CONTROLS THE SCROLL MASKS, WHEN THIS BIT ISN'T SET, THE BORDER EXTENDS INTO THE SCREEN AREA SLIGHTLY AND MASKS HIDES THE EDGES OF THE SCREEN SO THAT THE NEW DATA COMING ON CAN'T BE SEEN UNTIL IT'S READY. IT C THE IS AT $000 TO $000 AND IF YOU TRY READING THROUGH THAT MEMORY WITH THE COMMAND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE IT. UT IT'S *ALSO* POSSIBLE TO STORE DATA UNDER THAT MEMORY, FOR EXAMPLE GRAPHICS, AND NOT HAVE THE OVERWRITE IT AND IF WE POI R IN TOTAL. ITMAPS (AND SAID 'D GET BACK TO THEM, DIDN'T ?) WORK A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY. HEN WE USE BITMAP MODE, THE SCREEN BECOMES THE COLOUR INFO FOR THE BITMAP. O, IF WE SET $011 TO $3 TO SWITCH BITMAP MODE ON AND $018 TO $18, WE NOW HAVE 1,0 (PHYSICALLY THEY DON'T CHANGE SIZE, BUT THE PIXELS ARE NOW TWICE AS WIDE) BUT WE DO HAVE MORE COLOUR CONTROL. HE CHARACTER COLOUR, IN LOCATIONS $800 ONWARDS, IS USED TO CONTROL MULTICOLOUR MODE AND, AS WE HAVE DONE BEFORE, WHEN WE SET IT NORMALLY WE  NORMAL SCREEN MODES, IT'S MEMORY CONSUMING (A BITMAPPED PICTURE SUCH AS A LOADING SCREEN NEEDS 10,000 BYTES OF MEMORY ALL TOLD WHEN THE COLOUR IS ADDED) AND IT'S DIFFICULT TO SCROLL. OT IMPOSSIBLE, JUST DIFFICULT. HE *ADVANTAGE* OF BITMAPS ARE THAT TH NG (IN FACT, $1000 IS A VERY COMMONLY USED AREA OF MEMORY FOR MUSIC ROUTINES FOR THIS REASON, A CONVENIENT 4 BLOCK FOR TWO FONTS THAT CAN'T BE USED FOR GRAPHICS) NOTHER USEFUL LOCATION IS $011 AND IT HAS A NUMBER OF USES, BITS 0, 1 AND ARE USED TO SAND ON AFTER EACH SUCCESSFUL IMAGE EXTRACTION. AM LOOKING FOR A WAY TO AVOID THIS, SO FAR NOTHING HAVE TRIED WORKS. OR THIS REASON, IT MIGHT BE BEST TO USE A 128. 1. URCHASE A 64 AND -ET FROM HTTP://PROTOVISION-ONLINE.DE (N ERMANY) HE ODE WE *ALSO* HAVE THE $800 COLOUR MAP, AS USED BY THE SCREEN NORMALLY TO GIVE US A THIRD COLOUR AND THE BACKGROUND FOR OUR FORTH. ND THE $800 COLOURS ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FIRST SEVEN AS WITH MULTICOLOUR CHARACTERS, THEY CAN BE ANY COLOUR FROM $00 TECTION AND TO EXTRACT 64 FILES USING THE CARD. NZIP AND INSTALL RECOVERY.PRG ON YOUR MEMORY CARD. T THIS POINT YOU SHOULD HAVE WARPCOPY06.PRG AND RECOVERY.PRG ON THE CARD. 4. ET UP YOUR -64 WITH A 1541 DISK DRIVE. EST EVERYTHING TO MAKE SURE NOT, THIS IS A CLUE THAT YOUR NETWORK CONNECTION MAY NOT BE ACTIVE. WENT INTO THE "ETWORK ONNECTIONS" AND TURNED ON "ALLOW OTHER INTERNET USERS TO CONNECT THROUGH THIS INTERNET CONNECTION" IN THE ADVANCED PROPERTIES SECTION. OU SHOULD NOTICE THAT YNDS. OU MAY WISH TO TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO REFLECT TO YOURSELF OF THE POSSIBILITIES! 12. ASTLY, CLICK ON THE EAD MAGE BUTTON. ARPCOPY WILL ASK FOR A FILENAME, AND THEN PERFORM A DISK IMAGE EXTRACTION FROM THE DISKETTE IN THE 1541 DRIVE TO THE DESTINSTIONS, SUGGESTIONS OR WHATEVER ABOUT THIS OR 64 CODE IN GENERAL, CONTACT ME. OMMODORE REE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ASON FOR ALLOWING THE REPRINTING OF THE THE ARTICLE WAS TAKEN FROM HTTP://WWW.OLDSCHOOL-GAMING.COM/ PART AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUEOGRAM. OU MAY WANT TO ADD WARPCOPY TO YOUR FIREWALL RULES, ALLOW DATA TO PASS THROUGH YOUR ETHERNET CARD. 3.5 ET A COPY OF 64_ECOVERY_110.ZIP. ITH THIS FILE YOU CAN PERFORM A 64 IOS UPGRADE TO 1.10. OU WILL NEED THIS TO MAKE THE CONNARY FOR INDOWS BECAUSE .64 IS NOT AVAILABLE. XPERIMENT FOR YOURSELF. 7. URN ON THE 64. F EVERYTHING IS WORKING TWO THINGS WILL HAPPEN 1) HE -ET'S RIGHT-HAND LIGHT WILL SHINE, THE LEFT-HAND LIGHT WITH BLIP EVERY 3 SECONDS OR SO. F IT DOESREATED THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO SYSTEMS. 11. ERIFY THAT THERE IS A COMMODORE DISK IN THE 1541. SING ARPCOPY ON THE CLICK ON THE "DIRECTORY" BUTTON. HE PROGRAM SHOULD RETURN A DIRETORY OF THE DISKETTE. HE TIME TO READ A DISK IS ABOUT 5 SECOITH. N THE MEANTIME, A SMALL CHALLENGE REGARDING $018, CAN YOU WORK OUT WHAT THE VALUES WOULD BE TO PUT THE SCREEN AT $3400 & THE CHARACTER DATA AT $2800? ORK IT OUT ON PAPER & CHECK YOURSELF AGAINST THE START OF THE NEXT PART AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUEN ON THE OMMODORE C64. HE OTHER COMPONENT IS WARPCOPY.EXE WHICH IS TO BE RUN ON A MODERN INDOWS .OGETHER THEY WORK TO PERFORM A SPECIAL KIND OF -LIKE NETWORK. MOVED 06.PRG TO THE CARD. INSTALLED THE VERSION OF THE WARPCOPY PRONNECT THE OTHER END OF THE CABLE TO YOUR . HAVE TWO ETHERNET CARDS IN MY TO ALLOW ME TO LEAVE THE SYSTEMS CONNECTED INDEFINITELY. 6. CTIVATE THE SOFTWARE. HANGE THE ADDRESS FROM 192.168.0.64 TO 192.168.0.101 AND HIT ENTER. HIS IS NECESS10. NCE IN THE PROGRAM, HIT TO CHANGE THE ADDRESS. SE NST/EL TO BACKSPACE OVER THE "64" AND REPLACE WITH 101 SO THAT YOUR IS 192.168.0.101, (PORT 6644) JUST LIKE YOUR 'S ARPCOPY IS USING ON THE OTHER END. N THEORY AT THIS POINT YOU HAVE C UT SOME TRICKERY WHICH WE WILL HAVE TO LEAVE FOR A WHILE YET. IGHT, WELL THATS THE THEORY OVER WITH & INDEED THE ARTICLE, BUT NEXT TIME 'LL BE PERFORMING A MORE PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION OF HOW BITMAPS WORK WITH SOME EXAMPLE CODE AND A PICTURE TO PLAY W 64 FITS INTO THE CARTRIDGE SLOT OF THE 64 (OR 128). HE -ET ATTACHES TO THE 64. T HAS AN ETHERNET JACK. 2. ORMAT -MEMORY CARD, 16 OR 32 3. OWNLOAD "ARP OPY." HE SOFTWARE CONTAINS 2 COMPONENTS. NE IS 06.PRG WHICH IS TO BE RU UPGRADE YOUR BIOS TO 1.1. HERE HAS TO BE AN EASIER WAY, BUT CAN'T FIND ONE. HERE IN AN BIOS UPGRADE FILE AVAILABLE, BUT COULD NOT GET IT TO WORK. 9. ESART THE 64/1541 DRIVE. NTER THE 64 FILEBROWSER AGAIN, THIS TIME START UP 06.PRG.  YOUR DRIVE AND CABLES WORK, ETC.NSERT A KNOWN-WORKING DISKETTE WITH A PROGRAM(S) ON IT. 5. AREFULLY ATTACH THE 64 WITH -ET AND CARD INSTALLED INTO THE CARTRIDGE SLOT OF YOUR 64. AREFULLY CONNECT AN ETHERNET CABLE TO THE - ET JACK, AND C O $0. HE ONLY DRAWBACK TO HAVING THIS MUCH COLOUR (THREE COLOURS PER CHARACTER SQUARE) IS THAT THERE ARE SOME 10,000 BYTES OF DATA REQUIRED, 8,000 FOR THE BITMAP ITSELF AND 2,000 OVER TWO AREAS FOR THE COLOUR DATA, SO MOVING IT AROUND IS A NO-NO WITHOOUR "OCAL AREA CONNECTION" ICON WILL HAVE ACTIVATED IF YOU'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL. 2) HE 64 NTERFACE IOS 1.0 SCREEN WILL SHOW. 8. ROM THE INTERFACE MENU, SELECT 1 -TART ILEBROWSER. SE THE MENUS TO LOCATE AND RUN RECOVERY.PRG. HIS PROGRAM WILL U HE = PROJECT IS A NON-PROFIT & PRIVATE PROJECT. HE = PROJECT IS AN AUTOMATED RECORDING TECHNIQUE INVENTED BY ME (TONE AKVALLEY) IN ORDER TO MASS RECORD MUSIC FROM THE LEGENDARY OMMODORE 64 AND ITS CHIPS (6581 AND 8580) HE GOAL ISLL BE THE PRESENT FOR ALL OMMODORE 64 FANS OUT THERE. T IS CALLED BECAUSE THE PROCESS WILL ATTEMPT TO ENHANCE ANY OF THE RECORDINGS, IT IS RECORDED STRAIGHT PLAIN OUT FROM THE MONO OMMODORE 64 UDIOIDEO CONNECTOR. O STEREO, NO FUNNY MIN'T BE DONE...BECAUSE IT INSANE. UT FRET NOT ECAUSE, CRAZY MAN CALLED TONE AKVALLEY - WILL ATTEMPT THIS WORLD RECORD PROJECT IN MUSIC CONVERSION AND PRESERVATION! /HARDWARE MENTIONED ABOVE..DO NOT MISUNDERSTAND ME-( PROJECT THIS BIG SHOULDATION FILE ON YOUR IN ABOUT 20 SECONDS! ERE ARE SOME USEFUL FILES, PLUS THE START OF WHAT WILL BE A MASSIVE 64 LIBRARY, MORE ON THAT LATER. HTTP://WWW.VINTAGECOMPUTER.NET/COMMOD ORE/64/ RTICLE OPYRIGHT TO ILL EGNAN OMMODORE REE WOULD LIKE BER THE TUNE AS PLAYED BY THEIR MODEL. ND THIS IS A STRONG POINT OF THE = PROJECT FOR ! F IT CRACKLES AND POPS....WELL..IT'S THE TRUE AND AUTHENTIC SOUND OF A REAL OMMODORE 64! HIS IS WHAT WE HAD IN THE PAST, AND NOW THE PAST WIHAS AN INTERGRATED PLAYER, FOR THOSE WHO WONDER) ORGET THEM ! UST LISTEN TO THE REAL DEAL INSTEAD WITH THE HELP OF THE = PROJECT! OTE __ ALL THE SOFTWARE/HARDWARE MENTIONED ABOVE..DO NOT MISUNDERSTAND ME-( PROJECT THIS BIG SHOULD U = - REQUENTLY SKED ESTIONS: 1 HERE ARE BOUND TO BE PEOPLE ASKING THEMSELVES WHY DID IT WAY? R JUST PEOPLE BEEING INCREDIBLE CRITICAL, JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVE A SOUND SYSTEM THAT ARE 20 YEARS NEWER AND CAN BRING FORWARD=TO THANK ILL EGNAN FOR PERMISSION TO REPRINT THIS ARTICLE EFUL FILES, PLUS THE START OF WHAT WILL BE A MASSIVE 64 LIBRARY, MORE ON THAT LATER. HTTP://WWW.VINTAGECOMPUTER.NET/COMMOD ORE/64/ RTICLE OPYRIGHT TO ILL EGNAN OMMODORE REE WOULD LIKE  OF WHAT OR THE AUTHOR OF THE HAD RECOMMENDED. EMEMBER HERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT PROBABLY HEARD THE ELITE SOUND OF THE 6581 AND ITS SAMPLE FILTER DEFECTS, BUT ONLY THE SOUND OF 8580 AND VISA VERSA. OR THOSE PEOPLE, THEY REMBEMAIN ALL INFORMATION FROM THE ITSELF, SORTED IN RESPECT OF THE DIRECTORY STRUCTURE AS DEFINED BY . ILENAMING, TITLE, AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT ETC. ORGET LAYLAY2W....AND ALL THE OTHERS ORGET ARD ORGET AR ORGET E ORGET 64 (T  THAT AWFUL STATIC NOISE, AND DETAILS YOU'D NEVER HEARD BEFORE IN AUTHENTIC OMMODORE 64 MUSIC HIS BELOW WILL LOGICALLY ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS. HTTP://WWW.6581-8580.COM/INDEX.HTM : O, ITS NOT. HE KEYWORD IS EMULATE T MEANS TO SIMULATE OR R CRUDE PORT CONTROL SYSTEM64 KEYBOARD INTERFACE AND DATABASE STRUCTURE TOOLSWRITTEN IN UREASIC. ES, ITS ACTUALLY WORKING. LSO, A STRONG POINT TO CONSIDER IN THIS PROJECT IS THAT S ARE RECORDED ON BOTH OMMODORE CHIP MODELS REGARDLESS ELL. 'VE ADJUSTED TO 0 AND EXECUTED OLUME AXIMIZER WITH NO CLIPPING USING . AND .. OISE EDUCTION WAS DONE BY IMPROVING THE PHYSICAL GROUNDING INSIDE OMMODORE 64. HATS IT! HE FINAL 3 (224KBPS, MONO, 44100Z) WILL CONTEPRODUCE SOMETHING IN ANOTHER ENVIRONMENT THAT ITS ORIGINAL ENVIRONMENT N ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENT. S THIS REAL THEN? O. HEREFORE, THE MUSIC BE RECORDED FROM THE REAL ENVIRONMENT TO ENSURE THE AUTHENTIC AND GENUINE SOUND OF THE 64. ECORDING FROM HARDWARE CARDS OR SOFTWARE EMULATORS OF THE NEWEST KIND IS AUTHENTIC. HAT'S THE EASY WAY, DO IT THE HARD WAY..SO THERE! UT, DON'T GET ME WRONG. HE WORK DONE FOR THE SOFTWARE EMULATION OF THE CHIPS ARE REALLY A INCREDIBLE TASK. ESPECT! NOT TO RECORD THE ENTIRE COLLECTION PLAYED FROM OMMODORE 64'S (BOTH OLD AND NEW) AS PER COLLECTION #46 (ANUARY 21 2007.) ITH 64 AS THE 64 PLAYER AND 64 AS FILESERVER, IT ALL CONNECTS TO MULTIPLE 'S WITH OWN TAILORED SOFTWARE, XES, NO COMPRESSION, NO FILTERING, NO REMIX NO SOFTWARE NOISE REDUCTION, NO CRAZY HACKS OR OTHER UNATURAL OMMODORE 64 ELEMENTS.F THERE IS A POPPY CLICK IN THE RECORDING ITS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.HE CHIP IS UNIQUE AS SHOULD BE TREATED AS SO AS WHER THING IS THAT THE CHIPS HAVE INCOMING CAPACITOR LINES WHICH ARE MADE OUT OF NATURAL ELEMENTS AND THIS MEANS THAT THE FILTERS ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO SIMULATE ON A COMPUTER 100%. ND DO REMEMEBER THAT 2 SIMILAR CHIPS AND 64'S WILL HAVE THE EXACT SOUND ON BOTH! HE FILTERS ARE BASED ON NAUTRAL INGREDIENTS (WHICH ARE OF THE ANALOGIC WORLD) AND THEREFORE THERE WILL NATURALLY BE DEVIATIONS FROM EMULATION, CLONES VS THE REAL THING! 64 IS NOT LIVING IN A DIGITAL FILTER SOUND WORLD..AND THATS WHY THE  SOUND IS SO INCREDIBLE AND THIS ALSO APPLY FOR A LOT OF OLD SYNTHESIZER EQUIPMENT FROM THE 80'S... LIKE THE OLAND -303. URE ANALOG SOUND WHICH IS COMPARABLE TO SOFTWARE CLONES OF TODAY. (UT THAT'S ANOTHER BATTLE STORY.. : "OOL, REAL HARDWARE AND 8580 RECORDINGS. OR INSTANCE THE SAMPLE PLAYBACK ON 8580 MAY BE LOW OR MISSING. LEASE TRY THE 6581 VERSION INSTEAD. VEN BETWEEN REVISIONS OF THE SAME CHIP THE SOUND CAN BE DIFFERENT, SO REMEMBER THAT! 4: LEASE TRY AND REMEMBER WHAT KIND OF 64 YODEL, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE RECOGNIZED THE "NEW" FILTERSAW STRING IN THE BACKGROUND IF THEY DOWNLOADED THE 6581 3 VERSION OF TODAY. O, IT WAS A EASY DECISION: E TO RECORD EVERYTHING ON BOTH MODELS TO SUIT EVERYBODYS CHILDHOOD MEMORIES: ) : "EY, DESIGNED TUNES TO BE PERFECT ON THE 6581, AND WHEN 8580 CAME OUT A FEW YEARS LATER THE DAMAGE WAS OF COURSE NOT POSSIBLE TO FIX. HEY COULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THAT THE FILTERS WAS CHANGED ON THE 8580. HIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART TO REMEMBER. UNES ANCHIP AND GIVEN BETWEEN THE SAME REVISIONS! O A QUICK ESTIMATE FROM ME:1982-1988 = O FOR THE 6581 VERSIONS(100%) 1988-1993 = PREFERRED MODEL UNKNOWN 1993-2007 = PREFERRED MODEL 8580 (BUT STILL NOT 100% TRUSTABLE) ALSO REMEMBER THAT TUNES MADE 1982-CORDING IN MY SOFTWARE TO COMPENSATE. HIS MEANS THAT YOUR FAVOURITE TUNE OR SOUND EFFECT WILL EITHER BE PERFECT, MISSING 0.2 SECOND OR HAVING 1.3 SECOND TOO MUCH MAKING A SEAMLESS LOOP NOT POSSIBLE. HE OTHER THING YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER IS THAT THCE 6581 OR 8580 MODEL TO USE. F THE SAME PROBLEM (MISSING SOUNDS OR CHANNELS) IS THERE, THEN THE FILE IS SUPPOSED TO SOUND LIKE THAT ON THE OPPOSITE MODEL OR THE IS A BAD RIP (DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE) 3: HERE ARE KNOWN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN 6581 TUNE WAS SUGGESTED TO BE PLAYED WITH A 6581 MODEL (LIKE TUNE 9 IN AST INJA) IT WOULD HAVE A SPECIAL FILTERSAW STRING IN THE BACKGROUND. UT, ON A 8580 THE SAME SOUND WOULD NOT BE PRESENT. O, FOR PEOPLE ONLY LISTENING TO TUNE 9 IN ASTINJA ON A 8580 MO NOT FAIL DURING THE 3-4 MONTH PROCESS! : "EY, MY FAVOURITE TUNE SOUNDS WRONG, CAN'T REMEMBER THIS VERSION! : N MOST CASES THE TUNE ARE AUTHENTIC AND IS EXACTLY HOW IT SOUNDED WHEN PLAYED ON A REAL 64 WITH 6581 OR 8580. EMEMBER THAT COMPOSERS EMBER, A SAFE SAY WOULD BE THAT THE 65812 VERSION IS THE ONE YOU SEEK! 6: OWNLOAD ALL 3 VERSIONS (6581 AND 8580) AND CHOOSE THE MOST SUITING ONE FOR YOUR EARS AND STICK TO THAT! ENERAL:HE SOUND OF 64 IS ANALOGIC AND SOUNDS DIFFERENTLY ON EACH  SONG LENGHTS ARE REALLY WRONG. HE SONGLENGTHS.TXT IS A BETA PROJECT STILL.UT IN TIME, WILL PROBABLY TAKE CARE OF THIS, AND EVEN ADJUST THE LENGTHS TO MORE PRECISE NUMBERS. TS ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST SECOND. HAVE ADDED ABOUT 0.8 SECOND TO THE REOWNLOAD/LISTEN TO: 1: AKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD THE 3 FILE (EITHER 6581 OR 8580) AS SUGGESTED BY AND ALSO INDICATED IN OUR DATABASE. F STILL NOT SOUNDING OKEY, PROCEED TO STEP 2. 2: OWNLOAD THE FILE INSTEAD. WEAK SETTINGS IN 2W TO FORSTIGATE AND GIVE FEEDBACK. HY WE DIDN'T DO THIS INTIALLY DURING THE PRE-RECORDING PROCESS IS SIMPLE: EOPLE WAS USED TO THE MUSIC THEY HEARD ON WHATEVER MODEL THEY HAD REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE TUNE WAS ORIGINALLY COMPOSED ON "BACK IN THE DAYS". O, IF A IS THE WAY TO GO, BUT WHAT CHIP REVISIONS & BATCH ARE YOU RECORDING ON? : HE CHIPS USED FOR RECORDING IS: " 65814 3387 14" (ES, NO MARKINGS!) AND THE "= 85805 2689 25". OPEFULLY THE WHOLE 90000+ TUNES WILL BE RECORDED ON THESE IF THEY D OU HEARD THE TUNE ON ORIGINALLY "BACK IN THE DAYS" OWNLOAD THE APPROPRIATE 3 FILE, AND THAT SHOULD BE IT. 5: LSO, TO CONFUZE YOU EVEN MORE. HE 65814 USED FOR RECORDING HAS SOME REALLY STRONG FILTERING, SO IF THATIS NOT PLEASING OR YOU CAN'T REM MY FAVOURITE TUNE IS MISSING 1 TO 0.5 SECOND (START OR END), AND THE LOOPING IS NOT PERFECT!" : HE TUNE LENGTHS WERE EXTRACTED FROM OWN SONGLENGTHS.TXT FILE WHICH DO NOT CONTAIN THAT MUCH OF PRECISION.URTHERMORE,IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT A NUMBER OF D SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO THAT OF THE COMPOSER HAD IN HIS MACHINE. UT HOW THE HELL CAN YOU KNOW WHAT THE COMPOSER INTENDED? MANY CASES, YOU DON'T - SO PLEASE USE THE GUIDELINES BELOW FOR HELP! UIDELINES FOR CHOOSING THE CORRECT 3 VERSION TO D 2007 SAMPLES WILL NOT SOUND CORRECT ON 8580 (IN MOST CASES) SO THAT TOO IS A LITTLE BIT CONFUSING 'M AFRAID. F THE PROBLEM IS STILL THERE AND YOU ARE CERTAIN THAT SOMETHING GONE WRONG DURING THE RECORDING, PLEASE POST THE BUG AND WE SHALL INVE E = RECORDING IS AN PROCESS AND THERES COULD LOAD EACH TUNE INTO DOBE UDITION AND MANAGE THIS FOR APPROX 95000 TUNES. HAT IS . , OF COURSE SUCH THINGS ARE IRRITATING, SO REQUESTS FOR RE-RECORDINGS AND MANUAL MASTES, BUT THERE ARE SOME MINOR MILLISECONDS TO WHICH TO WORK ON, SO A LOT OF TUNES WERE CHOPPED OFF ABOUT 0.1-0.5 SECONDS IN THE BEGINNING INSTEAD. O, DECIDED TO ADJUST IT BACK TO MAKE SURE THE TUNES WERE NOT CHOPPED OFF IN THE BEGINNING. ORRY FOR THIS,G TIME. : "HAT ACTIONS DID YOU TAKE TO ENSURE RECORDING OF / BASED TUNES? : HIS IS A BIT OF A TROUBLESOME POINT. LL TUNES WERE PLAYED ON BOTH 6581 AND 8580 TIMED MACHINES. HIS BEEING OF COURSE THAT LIVE IN THE AREA AND HAVE ONLY