#Cheesecutter or goattracker Pc

Something I could return to from time to time and enjoy on my own.

I had this idea that I wanted to create a blog post with stereo MP3 versions of those SID tunes by Drax I liked the best, with red heart icons next to the top of the crop. Now I’ll do something for myself for once.

#Cheesecutter or goattracker Pc

I played some more PC games instead and wrote a lot of blog posts about them, but again the feedback was somewhat sparse. Maybe if I added Steam synchronization? No? Perhaps if I added an export function? Still nothing? Then how about if I add a ton of C64 games? EpiphaniesĪll these fiascos really got to me in the end and I finally decided to freeze all further development on the GameDeed web site. Instead it immediately went for a small niche corner with less than half a dozen visitors per day. I was actually arrogant enough to believe that a table layout would make it a strong contender among the likes of Backloggery and Howlongtobeat. There were a few dedicated visitors, but actually spawn discussions and spreading the word all around? Almost non-existent.Įspecially my latest endeavor, the GameDeed web site, was almost always a major disappointment. It was pretty much letdown after letdown. I had high hopes for some of the web sites and fan game sections I wrote, but none of them created much of a stir. I considered the C64 a product of its time and instead spent my years making web sites and playing a ton of PC games. Now we have computers that are so much faster and produce so much better material, it’s not even funny. Maybe there would be some nostalgia to check up on from time to time.Īll these years, however, I always considered the C64 a thing of the past. I have been practically dragged into several C64 and Amiga Facebook groups, whether I wanted to or not. I now have more than 750 friends there, and of course most of them have befriended me because of my past on the C64. That has been almost impossible on Facebook. Not that I had been totally oblivious to it. Because metal, that's why.Publishing my Computer Chronicles lately gave me a lot of positive response and it dawned on me how much the C64 scene still remembered and respected me for the editor and music I did back in the day. He's got some serious guitar playing skills and talent in making the SID bleed - in the meaning of creating unusual sounds and using the SID as it was his beloved guitar. The main reason of today's post with this introduction is to mention those music editors AND show you a great example of using Goat Tracker by my good friend, NecroPolo. Widely used and loved together with CheeseCutter, now it's quite simple to make some noise without having a real breadbox. Or just simply using a tool that was made for composing SID music on the PC/Mac and saving it in C64 format.

Now it's not even unusual to create a C64 music on PC, either with loading a native music editor into VICE or similar emulators. Those were the days, when I started to play with those editors without any knowledge about the SID chip and without any documentation given to the tools. Since then, I've used and still use SID Wizard which is a great tool and it's up to todays standards in composing C64 music. It would require some research to find it out so let me skip this part and jump straight into music editors and leave research for another day.īack in the good ol' days I 'composed' music with Future Composer and various versions of Demo Music Creator. I'm not sure how popular SID music is compared to the Gameboy chiptunes. We live in a world where it's possible to compose Commodore 64 music basically on any platform.