Show HN: Curated list and UX of 4 decades of SID music

Posted by drsopp on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:59AM
from the show-hn dept.

I've listened to SID music on and off since the 80s, and mostly from early games and demos. Lately, I have explored more recent music. There are online lists of peoples favorite SID music, and online players, see [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. Because I have different tastes, I had the motivation to make my own list and UX. So from january 2020 to september 2022, I listened through the HVSC having over 50k songs, resulting in a list of 600-700 favorites. I put together a UX so I can easily access them. This project is mostly for my own enjoyment, but I guess that many others here would also enjoy it. Please let me know if you have suggestions for songs I should reconsider adding, or some feedback on the UX.

[1] Show HN: Online SID-Player with spectrum viewer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750701)

[2] High Voltage SID Collection – Commodore 64 music for the masses (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28184104)

[3] Dial-a-Sid (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27735256)

[4] The Sid Collection (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32368634)

[5] WebGL SID-emulator in C++ compiled to JavaScript with Emscripten (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7270025)

[6] DeepSID: online SID (Commodore 64 music) player (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17055344)

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Re:Show HN: Curated list and UX of 4 decades of SID music by tartoran on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:05PM (#33666412)

This is so cool. Thanks for posting. I’ll have fun with my 5 year old:)

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Re:Show HN: Curated list and UX of 4 decades of SID music by layer8 on Friday November 18, 2022 @11:43PM (#33667009)

Excellent collection, though It’s missing some of my favorites:

Turrican:

https://youtu.be/yDyb1tV_91k (actually a cover of “Escape” from he Transformers movie).

https://youtu.be/06jsSCD7yvI?t=14s

Romeo and Juliet cover: https://youtu.be/8dDk8SiXToQ

Knight Games II: https://youtu.be/VkPhFz07b_o

Octapolis: https://youtu.be/HeFEWtbKmOo

Rock’n Roll: https://youtu.be/W7EyZIYVgec?t=24m24s

Ice Age: https://youtu.be/T6ZRMOthH_A

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Re:Show HN: Curated list and UX of 4 decades of SID music by drsopp on Saturday November 19, 2022 @02:16AM (#33667861)

Thank you for the suggestions. The Romeo and Juliet cover is actually present, listed as Sanxion (2/2). I feel a bit sorry for not including any of Wally Beben's work. Tetris almost made it, but it is so darn long. The version of Rock'n Roll you link to seems to fall out of tune.

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Re:Show HN: Curated list and UX of 4 decades of SID music by terlisimo on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:07AM (#33670752)

To me, that 25-minute long Tetris tune stands apart from all other SID music. It's like a movie soundtrack :)

For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny743c32gPg

BTW, thanks for sharing this. Most "top sid" lists are kind of predictable.

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Re:Show HN: Curated list and UX of 4 decades of SID music by layer8 on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:40PM (#33673214)

Ah, right, thanks for reminding me that his is actually Sanxion. For a very long time I only knew it from some cracktro.

You’re right, there’s something funky going on after 1:20 of High Times which I don’t remember from the original game. The HVSC version played in Modizer sounds better to me than that YouTube version, might be an emulation issue.

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Re:Show HN: Curated list and UX of 4 decades of SID music by dark-star on Saturday November 19, 2022 @07:30AM (#33669536)

The Magic Disk and Game On title songs from Thomas Detert and/or Markus Schneider are rather good IMHO

A small issue I have: The player doesn't seem to work on Chrome under Linnux though. Getting "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'playSong') at HTMLTableRowElement.<anonymous> ((index):665:22)" when clicking a song

Works fine on FireFox though

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Re:Show HN: Curated list and UX of 4 decades of SID music by drsopp on Saturday November 19, 2022 @07:52AM (#33669643)

Thanks for the suggestions. Will look into the bug if I can find the time.

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Re:Show HN: Curated list and UX of 4 decades of SID music by nguillaumin on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:29AM (#33670369)

I've done something similar, but for Atari ST / YM2149F music: https://nguillaumin.github.io/ym-jukebox/

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Re:Show HN: Curated list and UX of 4 decades of SID music by c64d81744074dfa on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:32AM (#33671017)

Another great way to experience a variety of C64 SIDs is to listen to the Immortal C64 podcast. It's been going on for years with over a hundred episodes so far.

http://www.akumadesigns.com/ic64/index.html

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