SID Music on the Atari 2600

[Albert]

Fans of the Commodore 64 will be glad to hear that Atari 2600 programmer Manuel Polik (author of Star Fire and Gunfight) has been busy working on a SID to Atari 2600 music convertor. Lee's Peek 'n' Poke has collected several Commodore 64 tunes that Manuel has converted to the Atari 2600 so you can download them and enjoy them yourself. The music include Rob Hubbard's Sanxion, Final Synth, Commando, and Monty on the Run pieces, as well as Martin Galway's Ocean loader. You can grab the tunes here, and you'll need an Atari 2600 emulator such as z26 to play them.

[ApolloBoy]

[Shannon]

 

My sentiments exactly.

 

These has got to be seen to be believed..

 

Uh... I mean heard.

 

Too bad I don't have a cuttle cart or the cuttle cart II has not come out yet.

[JB]

Whoa.

Just... whoa.

[krisjohn]

I'll hook my CC up to have a listen soon, but meanwhile I've been using my CatWeasel with a read SID chip to record MP3s of classic C64 tunes. There's a thread here:

 

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9253

 

And I'm sure it will get updated when some more files are ready to download.

[krisjohn]

Uh, I don't think the timing is right on a PAL 2600...

[Watson2112]

Uh, I don't think the timing is right on a PAL 2600...

 

Welcome to the world of SID music

 

*ducks*

[foxglove9]

Anyone try it on Stella 1.1 for Mac? It just sounds all wrong to me.

 

I love the Sid chip and my Sidstation

[CPUWIZ]

Must make SID multicart.

[krisjohn]

And I'm sure it will get updated when some more files are ready to download.

My SID recordings are at:

 

http://c64.ch/mp3/

 

I do new ones whenever I find a track worth recording. There are something like 18,000 tracks in the premier SID collection. I take requests.

[MegaManFan]

If a Last Ninja SID-Cart was ever made for 2600, I'd buy 10 copies.