How do I create .SID songs?

[jackan]

Hi.

As the topic reads: How can I create a .SID song? Are there any special composing programs? How were all the songs in the HVSC created?

Grateful for answers.

//jack

[TK.]

Hi Jack,

the ".sid" format is just a container for a C64 executable. This means that you can use any C64 song editor in order to compose these tunes, and you could run it on an emulator. However, I don't know which editors are currently "state-of-the-art"... the .sid format itself is described in DOCUMENTS/SID_file_format.txt, which is part of the HVSC

Best Regards, Thorsten.

[jackan]

Thank you for your answer, Thorsten.

I have now acquired a C64 emulator which seems to work fine.

Does anyone have any tips concerning which editor software to use?

[TK.]

Just found one:

http://c64-online.com/forum/index.php?&act=Downloads&CODE=02&id=226

(published in a C64 magazine ca, 16 years ago - hard to believe, how fast time passes by... ;-))

Best Regards, Thorsten.

[jackan]

Thank you, TK.

I also found GoatTracker on http://covertbitops.c64.org/

A SID Tracker for Windows.

Anyone know any more SID Trackers for Windows?

[bill]

Goat tracker Is the most portable and easyest solution to do sidchiptune on a non commodore machine !

They are tons of C64 trackers on this website : http://microkit.free.fr