He was seeking a job as a game programmer at Ocean Software, UK. Also here we must mention Russell Lieblich, who is a similar tech, and who creates the wonderful music of Magic Carpet! It's very special, actually using a special filter routine, not actually part of the music player, so it was hard to perform a rip of the tune.ġ984 was also the year, another superstar came to light, Martin Galway. Whilst most only used 8 bits of filter, David Dunn used all 11 bits of the SID for this. Mostly, the head programmer or a designated sound programmer, would convert something, or compose it on midi (Atari has been used), and then write a crude player, just playing back the notes, with simple waveforms, nothing advanced.ġ984, along came some composers who had a stronger grip on a music routine, to use little RAM and rastertime, for games.ĭavid Dunn was a pioneer in early players, who used advanced filter sweeps. It is known that some used midi, which they converted to C64 data. The first 'composers' were not really composers, but very often the programmer of the game, who had converted some classic/pop music into code+data. Then music began to appear, and it was often classical works converted, or famous pop songs. The first games had only few bleeps and blops, many games had no music, just simple sfx. The first SID music ever is in that book, some sound effects, and music, done by Jim Butterfield (unconfirmed) - at least it's confirmed he did some or all of the music examples on the Commodore demo disk. This was quickly followed by the book 'Programmers Reference Manual', which is a complete guide to program all aspects of the C64. It was 1982, and Commodore released the C64 on the market. Originally published in Vandalism News #64 - June 2015 Recollection The Brief History of SID by SIDwave

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