5:35 you couldn't have the quintessential 80's sound and not play such a classic.. Not only do you have a solid foundation of musical chops, but your abilities in both electronics and programming are quite inspiring.
What's even more surprising is that he's originally the iBook Guy ;) By the way I had one of these keyboard overlays myself, probably still do in the attic.. tsk tsk
I remember writing my own software to play music on my freshly bought PET-2001, somewhere around 1978. The PET didnt have any soundchip so i had to code everything (machinecode) using the Userport. Ofcourse it didnt have all the features a SID chip had, but i still managed to get some nice sounds (including glissando, vibrato) from it, using the small keys on the keyboard. Spend hours of playing that thing. It was great! Still love the older Commodores...
I used to have the Sight and Sound version of this for my old C64 back in the day. I had forgotten all about its existence. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Kudos to the gent behind this channel. It's one thing to carry on about something on UA-cam, but it's quite another to knuckle down and do something about the limitations of the subject matter as he did with his own software. The know-how on display here is heartening to see. Too many poseurs and not enough wow-ers on UA-cam. I was lucky enough to come across a cib Commodore Music Maker many, many years ago at a pawn broker, literally sold as a toy in that section alongside crappy remote control cars, etc. for absolute peanuts. While I did not have a C-64 at the time, the gear-head in me jumped for joy. Especially as the SID station came out at about that time and had me highly intrigued. With the carts and software available today, I am glad I didn't walk out of that shop empty handed.
I've been a fan of this channel (and your other one) for months, and I had no idea that you had the chops to be writing kick-#$@ music software for ancient computers in assembly code. That looks hella impressive, man!
No worries! It took me a solid hour or so of searching the internet to find out the name, so I thought I might as well save anyone else looking for the song some time :)
Wow, you Sir have awesome skills! Programming music software and games for such old computers and composing cool tunes to boot. And those loading time montages are simply hilarious.
Nice video, I happen to have an 'incredible musical keyboard' in my parent's basement, my father used the commodore 64 (with the audio chip mod, of course) back in the day to produce soundtracks for this documentaries. Your video has great historical value, thanks!
What a great review, well done, entertaining and informative. The sound expander is cool, but I think part of the magic of the SID chip is it's limitations. SID Keys is also very cool, congrats.
is there a version of SIDKeys that runs straight from cartridge like the first one in the vid ? would help a lot to turn a C64 + overlay into an actual single-piece instrument one can take to the stage - loading times and floppy drives (including extra cabling) are not that cool in a live performance situation
please don't give up on that goal - I think it would be awesome - you know, just strap a guitar belt to yer old C64 and rock out with your bandmates - I like SID chiptunes on itself but the best thing is combining chiptunes with other music styles and instruments like machinae supremacy does (you probably know this band and if not then you should check them out because they are an awesome metal band) - now, if only somebody would start reproducing those overlays because they seem to be very hard to find for sale nowadays.
Awesome video as always David! But what I'd like to know is the actual loading time for the Sight & Sound and Kawasaki software. Although it's pretty clear that it must be quite long... :P
+Panos Egglezos Yeah, obviously I exaggerated. I did time it, I had planned to mention the exact loading time, but ended up cutting that segment out of the final cut. Sight and Sound takes 55 seconds to load, and the kawasaki takes 1:55, so almost twice as long.
+Marios Sklavenitis Finally a lot of Greeks watch these interesting videos! Thanks for giving us the chance to discover the 8 bit era from the music side :)
Wow, just awesome! Quite an interesting add-on with a good idea behind, and then even own SW written for it! Well composed video, too, poking fun at the old toaster's ridiculously low data throughput :) (with its original SW, that is, due to the messed up serial port ending up requiring bit-banging the data through)
+The Obsolete Geek one time in indonesia when we were playing uno with about 7 or so people, someone gave me a "pickup 4 (2 2x)" so I counterattacked with "pick up 6 (3 2x)" and then the next person placed another 6 and the next person put down another 2x so the next person had to pick up 18 cards. Strangely enough she didn't lose the game. +8-Bit Keys I've been wondering, do you have any interest in the somewhat well-known famitracker?
Excited to see your software in action! I'm a long time chiptune artist so any new software is always exciting. Just as a small correction (as I understand it) when you can play multiple notes (one per oscillator) through a single processing chain it's called paraphonic. I believe the C64 SID would fall under this.
Apparently the sound comes from vibrations from the flyback transformer inside the CRT TV he's using, I always noticed that as a kid but I never knew it could transfer over to recorded audio
Well, don't worry, with increasing age, your range of hearing will gradually decrease and you'll stop being able to hear such very high frequencies one day. Umm, if that's any kind of bittersweet consolation for you.
I didn't think I would care much for this channel but I subbed anyways since I'm more interested in the technical/circuit board side of things. Now, I want to dive in and start making some retro chip tune type of music. Love this channel : )
+Mike Orr That's re-assuring. I wanted to make the content on this channel fun to watch even for those that aren't necessarily into creating music, but also maybe inspire some people to pick up the genre of chip music.
@@heccnotuploadinanything3307 yep have VICE installed and found the .d64 of the cartridge, but after loading I have no sound and all the possible notes just flicker spastically on the staff
@@theknee5590 found the problem You need a .crt cartridge and not d64 You cant find it easily because it is super rare Give me the download of that .d64 game and I will see if it is the game glitched or you computer is bad
I dont remember where the download was, but I found 2-3 different .d64 files, and they all functioned as I described. So you dont load it as a "game" as a d64, but you load a cartridge .crt AND the d64? Or just the rare .crt
It took me 30 years to reveal that I do not need the ",1" when loading on C64 (as I have just learned it from someone, but nobody knew what was it for) :)
+Krisztian Sinka Actually, you do. Not all software requires it, but this particular one does. If the software is "autostarting" then it needs the ,1 at the end in order to load it into the correct part of memory.
+Krisztian Sinka load ,0 (default) loads to BASIC start address and load ,1 loads to absolute address stored in the program. If you can run the program with "RUN" command, you usually don't need the ,1 since it'll load as basic program anyway. But if you start it any other way (sys call or autorun) then you need the ,1.
nice vid. Good to see people still developing for such platforms. Watching these vids are inspiring me to do something musical, I'm just not sure what yet though :)
As someone who's done some programming in 6502, I'm really impressed. You should write a book on it. Personally, I have a difficult time finding good tutorials for NES programming - they're usually disorganized and say, "Put this in here because." I'd love something a little more thorough.
+8-Bit Keys Very nice soundtrack that... I wasn't hugely into U6, but Ultima 7 was the game that convinced me to move from my Atari STfm to the a PC with DOS / Windows 98. Also a very good soundtrack.
*Long load times.* Aw come on, it's not that bad, it's a part of the experience of 8-bit systems. If you want smokin' load times on a c-64, copy your stuff over to a solid state drive and let it run, run, run. But if you want to keep it pure, then a 1581 3.5" drive may be in the wings waiting for you./
Hey can you do an addendum to this video about the Cynthcart? www.qotile.net/cynthcart.html Your software looks interesting as well. I'm looking forward to seeing more.
I actually owned a Commodore Sound Expander.. My mum got it for me at Christmas 1985had ish for the time it was brilliant. You could sequence.. had a very basic sampler like 4bit i think! But it got destroyed in a shed fire :-( wish i still had it for my studio now.. Great video.
I am so jealous of your playing abilities. I've tried playing piano's and such before and the best I ever got was "Saints go marching in", which my parents got absolutely sick of haha.
i would really have liked to grow up back in the day. computers seem so simple nowadays while computers back then seem genious, i mean they were so limited in everything and yet they got everything to work the way they wanted.
I wrote software on the VIC-20 way back in the early 80's called Del's Piano. However, I don't why I didn't call in Del's Organ, because it was meant to replace my Bontempi organ after it bit the dust. I could have probably adapted it for that. However, my VIC-20 along with all the tapes, were lost when I moved in 86, so everything was lost :(
love this stuff I had it all and the sci max and all the sci, Dr T and korg and Yamaha. I had 2 yamaha cx5m. tons of music maker software for c64. yamaha and Atari. man I miss all that. and more. being a music loving nerd was the best. great vids play on.
5:34 most 80s thing you'll ever hear
jump by van halen :D
I fucking screamed when I heard it
JUMP *guitar here*
I'm from the 2000 and I love that song!!!
Peter Williams XD
5:35 you couldn't have the quintessential 80's sound and not play such a classic.. Not only do you have a solid foundation of musical chops, but your abilities in both electronics and programming are quite inspiring.
And i jump TAM TAM TAM and nothing gets me down TAM TAM TAM TAM
As a pianist/composer AND a technerd. This interest me. This interest me GREATLY!
Wow man, I'm impressed by the scope of your technical knowledge. This is an awesome channel.
Soundole VGM Covers: ikr? My brain gets a boner every time i watch these.
Vintage technology makes me drool even though I'm 20 and I missed that boat by a decade
Hopefully will be collecting some pretty decent keyboards as I learn the piano. Want one of those little korglings with a vocoder built in
What's even more surprising is that he's originally the iBook Guy ;)
By the way I had one of these keyboard overlays myself, probably still do in the attic.. tsk tsk
His main channel is a technology based one.
Gives a whole new meaning to "KEYboard"
Ha
i "SEE" what you did there
lolololololololol
puns
Actualy keyboard of the first computers was looks like piano. So.. it come back to itself))
Can we please have more "Dave brushing his cat" montages
Nice pussy!
Nice 69 likes
His house is so plain; or is it a set and I'm an idiot
Yes
No.
Was not expecting a C64 modern software designed by you. Nice.
Phoenix Wright he did another... PETDraw.
Phoenix Wright OH MY GOD ITS AN ELITE BEAT AGENT
8:35 he said he's working on his own program
Objection!
@@karlsebastiansollenhag8802 well?...
A little off-topic: what a beatiful Cat you have. And thanks for the Video, is very informative, as usual.
Thank you! I also think she is very beautiful!
Every geek needs a cat!
My cat is actually angry with me for getting rid of my old C64.
my copy of planet x2 came with one the cat hairs static clinged to the manual!
amazing video as always! Can't wait to see more of your Sidkeys program!
Former Sight & Sound employee and C-64 programmer here! Thanks for the flashback.
I remember writing my own software to play music on my freshly bought PET-2001, somewhere around 1978. The PET didnt have any soundchip so i had to code everything (machinecode) using the Userport. Ofcourse it didnt have all the features a SID chip had, but i still managed to get some nice sounds (including glissando, vibrato) from it, using the small keys on the keyboard.
Spend hours of playing that thing. It was great! Still love the older Commodores...
3:08 I think this special thing is unison, cus you can hear the saws phasing with each other cus you had it on 3 voices when u did that.
Holy cow, we leave really close together. I recognize the shopping center you were at. It's close to my house.
You should wait outside for him and give him fanmail, personally.
He lives in Fort Worth soooo....
live
TX
Stalk ... Stalk ... Stalk ...
I used to have the Sight and Sound version of this for my old C64 back in the day. I had forgotten all about its existence. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I just HAD to laugh with the "loading intermissions" at 4:16 and 5:57.
Whats the song?
That was nothing compared with the Datassette. You could go have a full-day picnic, come back and that thing was still loading lol
@@ramen6236 Mamito Mambo - Mambo King (Latin Lounge Jazzy Mix)
Man I love this channel David! I hope you keep making these videos. A perfect combo of retro fun and excellent presentation and production.
This is very cool, it's a lot like the mini-analog synth I own.
Kudos to the gent behind this channel. It's one thing to carry on about something on UA-cam, but it's quite another to knuckle down and do something about the limitations of the subject matter as he did with his own software. The know-how on display here is heartening to see. Too many poseurs and not enough wow-ers on UA-cam.
I was lucky enough to come across a cib Commodore Music Maker many, many years ago at a pawn broker, literally sold as a toy in that section alongside crappy remote control cars, etc. for absolute peanuts. While I did not have a C-64 at the time, the gear-head in me jumped for joy. Especially as the SID station came out at about that time and had me highly intrigued. With the carts and software available today, I am glad I didn't walk out of that shop empty handed.
2:17 ultima 6, so iconic, iolo knew his craft.
What
@@jessewoordyt9300 ua-cam.com/video/nDyMuANAzBY/v-deo.html iolo, he wrote that track.
@@jessewoordyt9300 may have been ultima 5, i forget, still, same composer.
I've been a fan of this channel (and your other one) for months, and I had no idea that you had the chops to be writing kick-#$@ music software for ancient computers in assembly code. That looks hella impressive, man!
For those wondering what game the song at 8:25 is from:
Warhawk for the Commodore 64
Thank you!
No worries! It took me a solid hour or so of searching the internet to find out the name, so I thought I might as well save anyone else looking for the song some time :)
I never tire of the creativity and specific explanations you provide in your videos. thank you.
0:30
jesus does anybody else hear that high frequency sound
holmrekR same
Thatchman ow
I didn't hear anything.
cant hear anything over my own tinnitus :'(
sounds like an old tv
Wow, you Sir have awesome skills! Programming music software and games for such old computers and composing cool tunes to boot. And those loading time montages are simply hilarious.
This video brought up my hopes in humanity!🙂
How am I just seeing this now!?!? So many memories. I had the Sight and Sounds keyboard for my C64 many many moons ago. lol Awesome video as always.
I may finally get the old C64 out from under my bed and start messing with it if I had the keyboard.
My best advice would be to go on to eBay and see if you can find one for cheap
Nice video, I happen to have an 'incredible musical keyboard' in my parent's basement, my father used the commodore 64 (with the audio chip mod, of course) back in the day to produce soundtracks for this documentaries.
Your video has great historical value, thanks!
i do love hearing Ultima being played. 8-)
"Jump" chords on a C=64... priceless. You've just made my day;)
3:35 DROP THE BASS
In 2017?
Beat
What a great review, well done, entertaining and informative. The sound expander is cool, but I think part of the magic of the SID chip is it's limitations. SID Keys is also very cool, congrats.
Any more info on SIDKeys? I would really love to get my hands on it.
if you send me a private message on facebook, I'll send you a copy.
is there a version of SIDKeys that runs straight from cartridge like the first one in the vid ? would help a lot to turn a C64 + overlay into an actual single-piece instrument one can take to the stage - loading times and floppy drives (including extra cabling) are not that cool in a live performance situation
That was the original goal I had.. don't know if I'll ever get there.
please don't give up on that goal - I think it would be awesome - you know, just strap a guitar belt to yer old C64 and rock out with your bandmates - I like SID chiptunes on itself but the best thing is combining chiptunes with other music styles and instruments like machinae supremacy does (you probably know this band and if not then you should check them out because they are an awesome metal band) - now, if only somebody would start reproducing those overlays because they seem to be very hard to find for sale nowadays.
8-Bit Keys will you make a video on your software?
I can't seem to escape hearing the Ultima 6 intro theme when watching your videos. :) Great Video!
6:00 perfectly fits with the music
You are getting better and better in these reviews! Please keep it up!
What is the name of the game at 8:25?
You really went above and beyond with this video.
+Review Channel: Korgi Polymer WARHAWK
warhawk
Looks a lot like Astro Warrior for SMS!
warhawk
Warhawks are waring
43 year old here. Awesome! Keep up the good work.
Have you ever tried circuit bending, if so can you do a live demo or show what you have done. Thank for the great videos!
I just want to thank you, you have really inspired me. I don't even know in what why. But I feel as if you're my motivation for each day :)
Awesome video as always David! But what I'd like to know is the actual loading time for the Sight & Sound and Kawasaki software. Although it's pretty clear that it must be quite long... :P
+Panos Egglezos Yeah, obviously I exaggerated. I did time it, I had planned to mention the exact loading time, but ended up cutting that segment out of the final cut. Sight and Sound takes 55 seconds to load, and the kawasaki takes 1:55, so almost twice as long.
A greek that watches 8bit guy. Interesting :)
+Marios Sklavenitis Finally a lot of Greeks watch these interesting videos! Thanks for giving us the chance to discover the 8 bit era from the music side :)
Commodore 64's disk drive was known for its slow access times
Unbelievable that this stuff is still usable! That's awesome!
@5:44 JUMP!!!
Wow, just awesome! Quite an interesting add-on with a good idea behind, and then even own SW written for it! Well composed video, too, poking fun at the old toaster's ridiculously low data throughput :) (with its original SW, that is, due to the messed up serial port ending up requiring bit-banging the data through)
Wait, did you ever pick up 4 cards? Cheater!
+The Obsolete Geek took me a minute to realize you were talking about UNO cards.
+The Obsolete Geek one time in indonesia when we were playing uno with about 7 or so people, someone gave me a "pickup 4 (2 2x)" so I counterattacked with "pick up 6 (3 2x)" and then the next person placed another 6 and the next person put down another 2x so the next person had to pick up 18 cards. Strangely enough she didn't lose the game.
+8-Bit Keys I've been wondering, do you have any interest in the somewhat well-known famitracker?
+8-Bit Keys me too :))))
Lol hahahahahahah
The Obsolete Geek ן
What a great video. The c64 still sounds great. It's ridiculous that at the time of writing 58 people didn't like this!
what is this soundtrack that he plays on 2:12
really liked it when you show the different effects & modes, like the new "electro" music
You should make an episode on the SNES sound chip.
he did
@@hadto8482 He did on NES, but not on the SNES sound chip.
Excited to see your software in action! I'm a long time chiptune artist so any new software is always exciting. Just as a small correction (as I understand it) when you can play multiple notes (one per oscillator) through a single processing chain it's called paraphonic. I believe the C64 SID would fall under this.
5:34 my tiny mind exploded. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
This video is awesome! The music systems sound surprisingly good
Did anyone notice the INCREDIBLY painful high-pitched hum at 0:30? It's driving me insane!! >o
YEES
Apparently the sound comes from vibrations from the flyback transformer inside the CRT TV he's using, I always noticed that as a kid but I never knew it could transfer over to recorded audio
+Ludburgh Miyajima (TakataruMC) Oh wow
Well, don't worry, with increasing age, your range of hearing will gradually decrease and you'll stop being able to hear such very high frequencies one day.
Umm, if that's any kind of bittersweet consolation for you.
I am only 29 years old and I can't hear anything there. Am I hearing impaired?
I didn't think I would care much for this channel but I subbed anyways since I'm more interested in the technical/circuit board side of things. Now, I want to dive in and start making some retro chip tune type of music.
Love this channel : )
+Mike Orr That's re-assuring. I wanted to make the content on this channel fun to watch even for those that aren't necessarily into creating music, but also maybe inspire some people to pick up the genre of chip music.
0:30 Holy shit, do you have a Cathode Ray TV on or something because that sound is annoying!
huh so that's where it was coming from. i thought it might be my PSU acting up or something
Whelp I'm getting old now that I know I can't hear a CRT noise on YT :\
It's over 17khz. I'm surprised anyone can hear it.
I can't even hear it. Seriously. I'm not even that old, either. I'm only 17.
Sure enough my speaker on this tablet is bad, but I can still hear it :p
Your voice is very calming. I love your videos!
any info how to get 7:00 set up on my machine? that would be so much fun
Its a vic20 or a Commodore emulator and you have to download that game or piano
You can search it
@@heccnotuploadinanything3307 yep have VICE installed and found the .d64 of the cartridge, but after loading I have no sound and all the possible notes just flicker spastically on the staff
@@theknee5590 try other programs
@@theknee5590 found the problem
You need a .crt cartridge and not d64
You cant find it easily because it is super rare
Give me the download of that .d64 game and I will see if it is the game glitched or you computer is bad
I dont remember where the download was, but I found 2-3 different .d64 files, and they all functioned as I described. So you dont load it as a "game" as a d64, but you load a cartridge .crt AND the d64? Or just the rare .crt
I hope you've continued support for your software, it looks like an actual synth interface rather than choosing 3 "instruments". Really impressive!
It took me 30 years to reveal that I do not need the ",1" when loading on C64 (as I have just learned it from someone, but nobody knew what was it for) :)
+Krisztian Sinka Actually, you do. Not all software requires it, but this particular one does. If the software is "autostarting" then it needs the ,1 at the end in order to load it into the correct part of memory.
+Krisztian Sinka load ,0 (default) loads to BASIC start address and load ,1 loads to absolute address stored in the program. If you can run the program with "RUN" command, you usually don't need the ,1 since it'll load as basic program anyway. But if you start it any other way (sys call or autorun) then you need the ,1.
+Krisztian Sinka Miota vannak itt magyarok? :)
+Máté Varga Márnint a UA-cam-medencében? Már a legelsők között ott voltunk. :)
SID music is so beautiful - such nice tones ... and so flexible ! :-) THANKS for a great video ! :-)
nice vid. Good to see people still developing for such platforms. Watching these vids are inspiring me to do something musical, I'm just not sure what yet though :)
oh gosh, tell me about it. It took me forever to get my 2 unicorns.
Wish I could DOUBLE like! Can't wait for your video of your own SID Keys software :)
5:17 The exact same sound of my computer's fan XD
Or the washing machine
@@arni_2557 except that after that it would all be boom and beang
That is the most awesome thing I have seen in quite a while!
Can you do an episode about HOW ON EARTH YOU MANAGED TO LEARN AND USE ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE?!
As someone who's done some programming in 6502, I'm really impressed. You should write a book on it. Personally, I have a difficult time finding good tutorials for NES programming - they're usually disorganized and say, "Put this in here because." I'd love something a little more thorough.
What's the tune at 2:21
+Stop-Motion Guy It's the intro music to Ultima VI on MS-DOS computers (I don't think the C64 version had any music)
You sure seem to love the Ultima VI intro music!
+ElevatorMan5482 ElevExperiencing Productions i was gonna say that!
+8-Bit Keys Very nice soundtrack that... I wasn't hugely into U6, but Ultima 7 was the game that convinced me to move from my Atari STfm to the a PC with DOS / Windows 98. Also a very good soundtrack.
I totally recognized it and was going to boast about that but here it is already explained! =D
OMG, I do not know how to play any instrument, but this is so fascinating. LOVE LOVE LOVE
Can I get Sidkeys
C64 SID music is some of my favorite music. I don't know what it is about the SID chip, but it rocks!
00:38 New version on comodore????? You know it's 2016?? Just joking,keep up great work
Ante Radić I think he meant "newer".
destroyerofcomedy Probably
Amazing! I'm really enjoying this channel. I'm looking forward to more.
*Long load times.* Aw come on, it's not that bad, it's a part of the experience of 8-bit systems.
If you want smokin' load times on a c-64, copy your stuff over to a solid state drive and let it run, run, run.
But if you want to keep it pure, then a 1581 3.5" drive may be in the wings waiting for you./
I am all about mic-ing instruments but I find your channel very interesting!Kind of want to get some of this 80's/early 90's gear
THE 8 BIT COMIC SANS IS KILLING ME
Awesome job, congrats David!
Like the little Van Halen part classic 80s
Oh man. How I wished I had this as a kid. I never knew this existed and that is badass.
Video has cat... C Can Can't resist giving it a thumbs up aaaagh :D
Wow that piece of code looks pretty impressive. I'm looking forward to the next episode!
Hey can you do an addendum to this video about the Cynthcart? www.qotile.net/cynthcart.html
Your software looks interesting as well. I'm looking forward to seeing more.
+draggonhedd Cynthcart ftw! Use it all the time in the studio!
I actually owned a Commodore Sound Expander.. My mum got it for me at Christmas 1985had ish for the time it was brilliant. You could sequence.. had a very basic sampler like 4bit i think! But it got destroyed in a shed fire :-( wish i still had it for my studio now.. Great video.
Cats! More cats!
Just as I was wondering what to do, I get a notification for this video.
8-Bit Guy, you are a saviour towards procrastinators.
Easily one of my favourite channels
ow my, i havent seen that music machine software for ages...this was pure childhood nostalgia, good show 8-bit guy ! ;)
The use of Ulitama riffs keeps bringing me back... :D
Just discovered your channel. Love this so much!
Super fascinating video! Well done, sir :D
I am so jealous of your playing abilities. I've tried playing piano's and such before and the best I ever got was "Saints go marching in", which my parents got absolutely sick of haha.
I love that you play the Ultima 6 Boot soundtrack! It is awesome !
Wowzer, didn't know that was available for the C64. Although, I was brought up on the speccy. Amazing share! Made my day. :D
Where's the video on sid keys? I wanna hear about the program you made, that is so awesome
I love that music so much. Great videom im glad I found you second channel after subbing on 8 bit guy about a year ago.
i would really have liked to grow up back in the day. computers seem so simple nowadays while computers back then seem genious, i mean they were so limited in everything and yet they got everything to work the way they wanted.
I wrote software on the VIC-20 way back in the early 80's called Del's Piano. However, I don't why I didn't call in Del's Organ, because it was meant to replace my Bontempi organ after it bit the dust. I could have probably adapted it for that. However, my VIC-20 along with all the tapes, were lost when I moved in 86, so everything was lost :(
love this stuff I had it all and the sci max and all the sci, Dr T and korg and Yamaha. I had 2 yamaha cx5m. tons of music maker software for c64. yamaha and Atari. man I miss all that. and more. being a music loving nerd was the best. great vids play on.
Oooh! Thumbs up for the Ultima VI tune and your own sid-program. Finally I found a instrument that would add real music, if I ever joined a band =)
I was the 207207'th viewer. :-)
I owned (and own) that little keyboard (plus the cartridge of course). :-)
That was a lot of fun to play around with.