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Making 8-bit Music From Scratch at the Commodore 64 BASIC Prompt

In this video, I make 8-bit SID music on a Commodore 64 without any software apart from the built-in BASIC interpreter. This involves poking numbers into memory and hardware registers and writing machine code in decimal.

The picture of Walt was masterfully pixeled by The Sarge.

Posted Friday 27-Sep-2024 08:28

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Anonymous
Sat 28-Sep-2024 10:45
Proper feelgood computering.
Anonymous
Sun 29-Sep-2024 10:56
I just saw your YT video about making C64 music without any tools. I dont remember when was the last time I was that much impressed by anything. The amount of skills I recognized during your live coding session made me cry out. I understand it from your earlier projects (like 8bit chiptune on AVR) but now I understand the process of making such stuff and its mind blowing. Thank you!
Greetings from Slovenia!
Anonymous
Sun 29-Sep-2024 14:03
Som den lamer jeg er skulle jeg gjerne hatt listinga :-D men jeg regner med at jeg bare må skrive av YT videoen :-P
Dag
Anonymous
Mon 30-Sep-2024 12:48
I did not made Music on the C64 yet (only code or GFX) but you gave me some inspirations now... thank you.
Anonymous
Thu 3-Oct-2024 13:03
Great work
Is it possible to put the program online?
Thank you
Anonymous
Wed 6-Nov-2024 21:54
Is it possible to put the program online?

Or do what I did - watch the video and type it in yourself (with lots of pausing and resuming!) Very educational! :)