Stone Oakvalley's Authentic SID Collection (SOASC=) Intro

This early introduction movie is about the
SOASC= project which is an automated recording technique invented by me (Stone Oakvalley) in order to mass record music from the legendary Commodore 64 and its SID chips (6581 and 8580).

This is a quick movie showing the outline of the actual recording taking place during the 4month period of Commodore 64 authenthic recording project. Later in August 2007 the system was rebuilt and another version of the 6581 chip was recorded. ALL of HVSC's SID files recorded to MP3. For both the 6581 and 8580 chip....145000+ of files. 450GB in size, world's ONLY and LARGEST archive now and forever....Check out my website www.6581-8580.com for in-depth information and also the tunes ready for download!

Update: 29 Dec - We are starting to get back online, and the project has produced a whopping 145499 MP3 files! This project is finished after 1.5 years of work!

Actual SID Chips used for recording:
MOS 6581R4 3387 14 - Known as R4
MOS 6581 2383 - Known as R2
C= CSG 8580R5 2689 25

Category:

Music

Tags:

• SID
• Commodore
• 64
• C64
• HVSC
• 6581
• 8580
• Chiptunes
• old-school

[Enysvar]

Et spørgsmål, hvorfor valgte du ikke Wave formatet ?

[StoneOakvalley]

Det ville tatt 10 ganger så mye plass. Med Amiga samlingen snakker vi om totalt 14TB. I 2006 ville det ha kosta en formue med HD plass...nå også egentlig. Kvaliteten på MP3 er likevel overkilled, så hvis du er i tvil om noe mangler i audio'n, sjekk FAQ på hjemmesidene for begge prosjektene. MP3 var valgt fordi det er det mest utbredte og støttede compressa formatet på både hardware og software til den dag idag.

[FroggyMe6581]

Wow, was this automated? Are the computers linked via the parallel port to transfer file info data?

[StoneOakvalley]

Yes, 3 PAR ports were hooked to the C64. 1 for file transfer, two for keyboard typing on C64 and special handling like "loading end" detection and reset of the C64.

[Intosia]

but what about song that loop? ;) Whats the cuttoff time? :)

[StoneOakvalley]

All songs lengths are extracted from HVSC's own songlengths.txt. They have used automatic tools to determine such and the results are beta. I rely only on that information 100% for these recordings.

[musicgod2006]

Heroic job!

[stabilini]

you have just made a fundamental gift to human kind and future generations... emulated SIDs doesn't sound like realy SIDs... and all original C64 SIDs will disapear in the future... thank you very much for this achievement.

[GreatNorthWeb]

you have achieved commodore sainthood...

[cherrymaysaflor]

happy birthday my honey stein! wish u more birthday's to come and may the LOrd bless you with all the days of your life with me!your not only talented man, but a very loving and romantic man in this world!i love you and i promised to take care and love you forever...... i love you so much hon,and once again ,HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!mwoahh

[KaslarProductions]

A truly epic SID historian.... My hat is off to you sir.

[czymaupy]

1:30 !! sweet

[Enysvar]

oh :O