https://github.com/pschatzmann/sidplayer

Playing Commodore 64 SID Audio on Arduino
https://github.com/pschatzmann/sidplayer

arduino audio-player cmake library sid

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Playing Commodore 64 SID Audio on Arduino

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pschatzmann/sidplayer
• Owner: pschatzmann
• Created: 2023-03-01T07:58:00.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-04T14:46:22.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-11T13:36:34.000Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: arduino, audio-player, cmake, library, sid
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 599 KB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Playing SID Files

In the old days I was rather a Commodere PC guy but I know of colleagues of mine that were addicted to the Commodore 64 and knew it inside out. Here is another project that makes you feel nostalgic: 

__Sound Interface Device (SID)__ is a audio format used by the __Commodore 64__ and 128. 

To get some SID files, I can recommend The [High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC)](https://www.hvsc.c64.org/) which is a freeware hobby project that organizes Commodore 64 music into an archive for both musicians and fans alike.

Unfortunately we can not feed SID files incrementally to a codec, so this does not fit with my audio codecs that are used e.g. in the AudioPlayer of the AudioTools library.

Therefore this project provides a separate, dedicated __SID stream__ and a __SID player__ that can play SID from files or from in memory hex dumps __on Arduino__. The player is based on the AudioPlayer from the [Arduino Audio Tools](https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools), so you can use __different audio sources and audio sinks__. The SID emulation is based on cSID light by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath), (Year 2017).

### Memory Requirements

You can set the RAM implementation in the config file (SIDConfig.h): In most cases it is using __64KB fixed__. By default this memory is reserved statically. You can also select to use PSRAM instead of RAM.

There is also an experimenal memory implementation that can directly use the song stored in PROGMEM and just needs around 2K of additinal RAM.

### Documentation

- [Class Documentation](https://pschatzmann.github.io/SIDPlayer/docs/html/annotated.html)

- [AudioTools Audio Player](https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools/wiki/The-Audio-Player-Class)

- [Supported Output Devices](https://pschatzmann.github.io/arduino-audio-tools/group__io.html)

- [AudioTools Wiki](https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools/wiki)

### Installation

For Arduino you can download the library as zip and call include Library -> zip library. Or you can git clone this project into the Arduino libraries folder e.g. with

```

cd  ~/Documents/Arduino/libraries

git clone https://github.com/pschatzmann/SIDPlayer.git

```

And please do not forget to also install the [AudioTools](https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools)!