Howdy Fellow Commodore Users!

In last month's President's article, I mentioned the dates of the Tradeshow Productions at Cincinnati Gardens. If you missed last month's meeting, I announced a change of plans for Tradeshow Productions and where and when the Computer Shows will be taking place.

It would seem that Cincinnati Gardens will not be hosting computer shows in the immediate future. A new place has been chosen for the shows: Sharonville's Convention Center, on Chester Road.

Since then, there has been an addition to even that change of plans, but due to the closeness of the event, we will not be able to attend that show, which is the weekend of September 18 & 19, (the same weekend as our meeting). For those die-hard show goers, this might be one of the few advance notices you will see for the September show.

The club did agree on participating in the October 23 & 24 show dates, which is the weekend after our own swap meet. Speaking of swap meet, there was some concern as to whether we will postpone or cancel our swap meet because that is the same weekend as Cincinnati's Tall Stacks Festival. All plans are on go to continue the traditional weekend for our swap meet, which will be held on October 17th from 2-4PM.

The demo of Real SID Play, last month, brought a few questions concerning what kind of documentation was available with the program, there was spartan functionality within the program. Since the documentation was short, I thought I would include it in this month's article so that those who took the disk home will have a printed copy of the documentation:

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- Real SID Play v4.04 -

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Coded by The Burglar/SCS*TRC in 1997

This Player for a REAL C=64 will play most (I'd say 90%) tunes in PlaySID/SIDPlay format. Get the HV-Sid collection and listen to all your favourite C=64 music.

After you have started the player, the SID Driver will be activated, now you can just load"sidname",8,1 and the Driver will do the rest.

While the music is playing you can do 3 things:

Press 'Left-Arrow' to Fast Forward.

Press 'SPACE' to Listen to the next song, or if there are no others, it will restart the only present song.

Press 'CBM-Key' to go back to basic, with Real SID Play still installed.

Type 'sys 333' to Restart the Real SID Player.

Please remind that this is still a beta-version, updates will be released on IRC (#c-64) and on The Digital Dungeon:

ftp://utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/c64/Music/SidPlay/

Some SIDs might not work/crash the driver, cause the SID will overlap the Driver, I will release some re-located versions later.

To get the SIDs, I recommend you use the High Voltage SID Collection.

Check http://www.dhp.com/~shark/c64music/

The HVSIDs are online on The Digital Dungeon, but I suggest you try that link as well.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me at burglar@replay.com

Make sure you regularly check The Digital Dungeon!

Burglar/Success*The Ruling Company

burglar@replay.com

ftp://utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/c64 <> The Digital Dungeon <>SCS*TRC InetHQ