A 'diskmag' for the Turbo/PCE: "COURAGE"

[ccovell]

Hi, everyone.  Happy April Fool's Day!

No tricks or pranks this year.  I've released a new demo for the PCE that I've been working on in my meagre free time since August.  It's an oldskool "diskmag" type of demo I've named Courage.



Try it out on your flashcard or on a CDR and let me know what you think!

Download: http://www.chrismcovell.com/data/CMC_Courage_Diskmag.zip

[sunteam_paul]

I'll take a better look when there aren't children running around the house but OMG the music sounds SIDdly awesome!

[sunteam_paul]

I've run through this completely now.

I LOVE IT.

Also, I'd love to hear more SIDs on the PCE.

[roflmao]

I have one of the Gameofyou flashcards and unfortunately it wouldn't boot.  I'll burn the iso later and give it a test run!  Can't wait!

[Necromancer]

Downloading now for flashcarting later.  Woot!

[Arkhan]

Very excellent.  The second that tune started I was like BAM.  Terra Cresta! 

This demo bleeds Commodore 64.   It's pretty sweet.

How much CPU time does the SID player eat up?   I'm sure some people would like to slap it into their games.

I think I still have a 5.25" disk laying around with some SIDs, but they might be too long and elaborate.   At least 2 of them were 2x SID tunes.

[peperocket]

Great work !! Thank you for his diskmag !

[esteban]

STATUS: I am happy, even though I don't know when: (1)  I will figure out how to use my flashcard/t (2) have a PC that functions

VERY HAPPY INDEED

[mac]

Very interesting read. Thank you

[ccovell]

I have one of the Gameofyou flashcards and unfortunately it wouldn't boot.  I'll burn the iso later and give it a test run!  Can't wait!

Hmm, that's odd.  Perhaps that flashcard wants ROMs padded to 1M, 2M, etc...?  Try this version that I padded to 2 Megabits:  http://www.chrismcovell.com/data/CMC_Courage_2M.zip

See if that works.

Arkhan: The SID player uses 13 raster bars on-screen, which translates to...  4.5% CPU use or so.  The hard part of getting a SID to work on the PCE is simply memory management.   (Well, the tech details page in my demo explains it...)

[Arkhan]

Sweet.  It's not a CPU-whore.

Do you plan on releasing the SID-Thing as a standalone deal?  I wouldn't mind busting out my 2xSID nonsense and making some tunes with it that I can put on the PCE.

[touko]

Wahou excellent, this sid player is  ..

[sunteam_paul]

Someone needs to post this on C64 forums. *points at Arkhan*

[ccovell]

Do you plan on releasing the SID-Thing as a standalone deal?  I wouldn't mind busting out my 2xSID nonsense and making some tunes with it that I can put on the PCE.

Sure, I'll release the SID code.  You'll have a bit of work doubling up the engine to play 6-channel SIDs, but go ahead.

[Arkhan]

Do you plan on releasing the SID-Thing as a standalone deal?  I wouldn't mind busting out my 2xSID nonsense and making some tunes with it that I can put on the PCE.

Sure, I'll release the SID code.  You'll have a bit of work doubling up the engine to play 6-channel SIDs, but go ahead.

  Sweet.   

Someone needs to post this on C64 forums. *points at Arkhan*

Mwahahahah

I'll do it soon, on Lemon64.com