PSID64 News

PSID64 1.3 has been released. PSID64 is a program that makes it possible to listen to your favorite SID music on a real Commodore 64 computer. The download section on https://psid64.sourceforge.io/ provides the new source tarball as well as precompiled binaries for Linux, MS-DOS, Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and macOS.

News summary:

• Added support for new song length file format.
• Use Songlengths.md5 default filename when HVSC root directory is specified.
• When converting a directory to a specified output directory, use a trailing slash or backslash to never append the basename to the output directory.
• Avoid grey dot artifacts on 8565 VIC-II.
• Fixed missing argument in --root command line option description.
• Added more extensive usage description and examples to README.

PSID64 1.2 has been released. PSID64 is a program that makes it possible to listen to your favorite SID music on a real Commodore 64 computer. The download section on http://psid64.sourceforge.net/ provides the new source tarball as well as precompiled binaries for Linux, MS-DOS, Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and OS X.

News summary:

• Added PSID/RSID v4 support (Triple SID).
• Added support for player identification based on SID ID.
• More verbose error messages in console application.

PSID64 1.1 has been released. PSID64 is a program that makes it possible to listen to your favourite SID music on a real Commodore 64 computer. The download section on http://psid64.sourceforge.net/ provides the new source tarball as well as precompiled binaries for Linux, MS-DOS, Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and OS X.

News summary:

• Added song length and progress bar support.
• Accept directory as input and/or output path.
• Use song length database from HVSC directory if no database was specified.
• Added -t option to specify a driver theme.

PSID64 1.0 has been released. PSID64 is a program that makes it possible to listen to your favourite SID music on a real Commodore 64 computer. The download section on http://psid64.sourceforge.net/ provides the new source tarball as well as precompiled binaries for Linux, MS-DOS, Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and OS X.

News summary:

• Added -n option to convert a SID without including driver code ("sid2prg").
• Reduced footprint of extended driver in case character ROM must be copied.
• Fixed compression issue on Raspberry Pi.
• Prebuilt binary for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows available.
• When applicable initialize the second SID.

PSID64 0.8 has been released. PSID64 is a program that makes it possible to listen to your favourite SID music on a real Commodore 64 computer. The download section on http://psid64.sourceforge.net/ provides the new source tarball as well as precompiled binaries for Linux and DOS/Windows.

The precompiled binary for DOS/Windows was compiled using djcross-gcc 4.1.1. The Linux RPM binary has been compiled on Fedora Core 6. Please let me know if you encounter any problems with these binaries.... read more

PSID64 0.7 has been released. PSID64 is a program that makes it possible to listen to your favourite SID music on a real Commodore 64 computer. The download section on http://psid64.sourceforge.net/ provides the new source tarball as well as precompiled binaries for Linux and DOS/Windows.

The precompiled binary for DOS/Windows was compiled using DOSEMU, DR-DOS 7.03 and DJGPP. The Linux RPM binary has been compiled on Fedora Core 3. Please let me know if you encounter any problems with these binaries.... read more

PSID64 0.6 has been released. PSID64 is a program that makes it possible to listen to your favourite SID music on a real Commodore 64 computer. The download section on http://psid64.sourceforge.net/ provides the new source tarball as well as precompiled binaries for Linux and DOS/Windows.

Starting with this release the precompiled binary for Windows is compiled with DJGPP instead of Cygwin. Therefore PSID64 also runs on MS-DOS (e.g. for use with PSID64HDD and 64HDD).... read more

PSID64 0.5 has been released. PSID64 is a program that makes it possible to listen to your favourite SID music on a real Commodore 64 computer. The download section on http://psid64.sourceforge.net/ provides the new source tarball as well as precompiled binaries for Linux and Windows.

News summary:

• Added preliminary support of RSID format.
• Implemented screen blanking to improve audio quality when using the RF modulated output of your C64.
• Implemented feature request 534453: handle init functions that jump to $A7AE.
• Extended information line area: show the intended SID model and video mode.
• Updated source code to automake 1.6.3 and gcc 3.2.

Release 0.3 fixes a classic bug in release 0.2. On Windows machines without Cygwin installed, all files are treated as text files by default. This results in corrupt C64 program files where a carriage return character is inserted before each new line character.

This release includes a port to Windows/Cygwin platform (see download section), screens located in the memory ranges $4000-$8000 and $c000-$d000, long option formats and option to specify multiple PSID files to be converted on the command line.

The first release of PSID64 is now available for download.
PSID64 is a program that converts PSID files into C64 executables. This allows users to play PSID files (originally used by the PlaySID program) on a real Commodore 64 computer or emulator such as VICE.