PlaySID3

Short:        Version 3.0 of the famous SID emulator
Author:       rbk@ios.se (Ron Birk)
Uploader:     kunath informatik uni-muenchen de (Peter Kunath)
Type:         mus/play
Architecture: m68k-amigaos


NEW FEATURES:

	V3.0 (1994)

	* Uses PLAYSID.LIBRARY (please read separate docs)
	* Support of XPK Data Compression
	* Realtime waveform and envelope display (uses low priority task)
        * Shows C64 pictures (Koala, Blazing Paddles, Doodle, Adv Art Studio etc.)
        * TV System detection and selection
        * Channel on/off selection
	* PlaySID is now a commodity
	* Uses a config file for settings
	* Multifile selection (music and pictures)
	* Ability to show and hide PlaySID windows
	* Second PlaySID instance redirect modules to the running one
	* PlaySID font removed
	* More arexx commands
	* Many major bugs corrected


PRODUCT INFO:

	This is a utility which uses the playsid.library to emulate the SID
	and 6510 chip. The SID chip is the component in the C64 computer that
	handles sound. The 6510 chip is the CPU of the C64, that means the
	component that actually executes all programs. Because the Amiga
	does not have these chips and others, you can't run C64 programs
	directly on Amiga.

	Now this utility lets you play all those C64 programs that produce
	sound. As you probably know, the C64 has three sound channels (the
	amiga has four). But this utility also allows use of the fourth
	channel. This channel is the product of some special programming on
	the C64, it isn't really a channel.

	The purpose of this product is to make the best conversion of C64
	sound on Amiga ever possible. If you think some sound isn't correctly
	converted please let us know.

	This utility is designed to work with true multitasking, under any
	system version and any amiga model. It can be run from both Workbench
	and CLI/Shell. It should work with any other program that don't use
	sound or timing. If this isn't the fact please let us know.

	Some time ago we released a similar product called "The 100 most
	remembered C64 game-tunes". This product is the version 3.0 of that
	program. The tunes on that demonstration disk are now also available
	to this version. And up to date there are more than 400 tunes
	available. We and others are also working with more.