There’s a couple of writeups on it here:

http://remix64.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4777
http://www.bigmech.com/misc/c64mods/noisereduction.html

(Mind you, I can’t be held responsible if you end up frying your computer)

My ideal setup would be a C64 with an MMC64 cartridge, The MMC64 has a built-in SID player, so you can stick the entire HVSC on an Secure Digital card.

Unfortunately my C64 is tucked away in the basement due to space constraints, so I’m making do with the Mac version of SIDplay. The tunes played on the Take-away aren’t emulated, though – for those I use the straight-from-the-real-thing SID recordings on the various cd sets available from http://www.binaryzone.org/

I stumbled onto the bittorrent link at Remix.Kwed.Org (what a treasure trove of tunes) and found MULE and Master of Magic remixes in the “No Longer on” torrent, but just to have one of my requests hit your podcast is an honor, I really enjoy them.

By the way, speaking of SIDs, which I also love as-is, is there a good method/preferred program to make a playlist to play SID files consecutively in Windows?

The SID-plugin for WinAmp requires manual advancement of songs from what I could tell. A program called XMPlay has a much better plug-in, but it often messes up the projected length of songs and you are left with several empty minutes (for instance, 5 minutes of dead space after a 30 second SID clip). For now I use XMPlay, but it is not totally hands-free easy listening.

What do you use, if anything, to hear SID tunes back to back? (If you say an original C64 I might have to bust my old unit out – haha)

Cheers,
-R.M.

Just sat through a full podcast on my ride in to work today, perfect length for my commute!

- RM

Would love to hear a few remixes of songs from games that I’ve never heard elsewhere (haha- my “requests”) but haunt my eardrums occasionally:

“Realm of Impossibility” – by Electronic Arts
“Adventure Construction Set – Opening Theme” – by Electronic Arts
“Below the Root – Intro Theme”
“Archon and Archon II – Adept opening music”
“Master of Magic” By Mastertronic / Ron Hubbard

Anyway, great stuff!

- RM

If you guys are looking for new stuff to review, you might want to check out the “Syntax Era” album ( available on http://c64audio.com/ ) – it’s a brilliant blend of 80s pop and Commodore 64 classics – and I’m not just saying that because the producers are friends of mine.

I checked out your show a while ago, and I wanted to email you because I think you have a really great concept. Your shows are interesting, and I’ve had fun listening through them. The episodes keep getting better and better.

I’m always looking around for new shows to listen to because I’m a podcaster too. I do a weekly music review show called Have You Heard (http://www.haveyouheard.net). We interview musicians, talk about music news, and review two new records every week. You should check it out. I’d love some feedback on the show.

-Adam Trimble

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-13636_11-188095-16.html

I don’t know why they are cracking a C64 open here, but if anybody wants to take a look at a SID chip there it is…

I’ve got a semi-8-bit commercial for you here…

http://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=3kcWQIfc

They even use the C64 font right at the end!

Thanks for the podcast. Good to see you back.

CG, I just noticed that you’re doing a chiptune podcast yourself. I’ve grabbed the back catalogue, and will give the first one a spin on my commute tomorrow.

…good grief – WDR Radio Orchestra is like the BBC Symphonic Orchestra! I can’t believe it as much as Huelsbeck can’t :p

Thanks for your dedication!

Missed the show and it’s always an essential listen on my MP3 player! Keep up the great work.

Simon