CATWEASEL MK4 PLUS

@328gts

Yeah, saw that. Nobody commented though. :)

Don't think people care enough to be honest, but as long as somebody uses it, maybe other users will come along later. And hey, I want to use it!

@Spirantho

the guys that have and/or will get the Catweasel MK4+will hopefully step up to the plate and help out as driver support was the main reason many people (including me) never considered buying it before.

If we can get to use our old joysticks under E-UAE then even more people will be enticed to join the party

Goat tracker can use catweasel sids i think, and it is ported to amigaos4 as well, not the latest version though, let me know if you need any help there!

What there is a resid plugin for tunenet? O_O
Where!? The only one i know if is based on the old crappy playsid.
I have been trying to get people to do a sidplay-residfp based plugin for tunenet.. But judging from the interest in my "let's make tunenet plugins!" thread on amigaworld, the interest is really low...

Man, i am starting to crave a catweasel really bad now... How much are they these days?

If anyone wants to do a proper sid plugin for tunenet, use these sources:
http://www.bel.fi/~alankila/c64-sw/index-cpp.html

not the ones on sourceforge, they haven't been updated since 2004 and lack a lot of cool things.

@spotUP

what about audio evolution as it works great under OS4.1....gonna send Davy an email on this

@328gts

why would you want a hw sid in audio evolution?
audio evolution doesn't play sids, so there would be no use.

i have now ported sidplay2-residfp. it's available on os4depot.
there is no support for the catweasel though... only hardsid.

here is a sidplayer that supports catweasel, and sdl. that could be a good starting point perhaps.
http://sidplayer.cebix.net/
edit: or maybe not... it supports the deprecated psid format only...

here are the linux drivers for catweasel, they also list some apps/players that are have support for the catweasel.

http://llg.cubic.org/cw/

@spotUP

oh, hardsid means catweasel too in some cases it seems.

@spotUP

Maybe I was wrong about the plugin using reSid, then (not sure where I saw that). Either way, should be easy enough.

I've emailed Rogue about writing a joystick AmigaInput driver and if I could have the necessary docs, but got no reply so far (but then he is a VERY busy man).
I also emailed the author of the SID tunenet plugin and no response there either.

On the plus side, I got that C64 in the shop down the road! ?20 well spent for a boxed C64C (rev. B motherboard, 8580 SID) I think. I reckon the best thing to do now is to have a catweaselsid.device which can be opened independently of the catweasel floppy, and used in the same way as the windows/linux device handlers. That's my current plan, anyway. Then I can rip out the cw init code from Vice, where it doesn't really belong. With a catweaselsid.device, it should be easy to port other platforms' cw code, so SDL apps using it should be a doddle.

@SpotUp:
Knowing your porting obses^H^H^H^H^Haddic^H^H^H^H^H^Her.. interest, I bet you're curious now as to what SID-using apps you could port. :) If you were to want to play around obviously I'd be happy to help you.

Edit: Just got an email back about the AmigaInput SDK. Maybe soon.... will keep people informed. :)

@Spirantho

Glad to hear you got hold of more 6581s. I went through my old stocks and found several, but all missing Voice 3!

For some reason I can't remember, C64s used to lose sound output from voice #3, which is why I have several old 6581s with dead voice 3s.

@Spirantho

hehe... there ain't that many sid apps... vice and goattracker are the obvious ones.
with those and a tunenet plugin i'd be perfectly happy.
regarding sound anyway.. :)

@spotUP

If I can get hold of a sample tunenet plugin maybe I can have a go (not looked yet!). First thing is to convert your sidplay2 library to use the CW though.

There's a really sick part of me, though, that wants to implement CW Sid support into the ZX81 emulator you just ported. That is so wrong. :)

@Spirantho

check my thread here for info on both the sid plugin and a bunch of sample plugins:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/v ... _id=24407&forum=32#578206

if you do the plugin, could you start with the sw based plugin and then adapt it to catweasel so that those without catweasels can enjoy it too?

you probably need to enable hardsid support in sidplay2-residfp if you want to add catweasel support. that emu wasn't ported by me btw. :) i uploaded some of chris's stuff last week.

here's a direct link to sidplay2-residfp:
http://www.os4depot.net/?function=sho ... udio/sidplay2-residfp.lha

but i recommend that you read my info i posted about it in the thread above, in post #1.

if you make the sw based plugin i will try to send a token of appreciation your way, i am on a really tight budget atm though, so you won't get rich.

@spotUP

here's a sidplayer with libsid2 support.
i failed to build it under ubuntu though.
http://rink.nu/project.cgi?project=musixbox

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uh because I love both products and there's always a use my friend...always

@328gts

i doubt you have used both products. they are very different.

@spotUP

They are different. But they can be used together.
The CW has an audio jack to plug into your sound card. You can then record it in Audio Evolution. It's not really an AE thing, though, you're right, but the two could be used together.

@Spirantho

yes, ofcourse.
but adding sid support to AE doesn't make sense.
ofcourse you can sample and use whatever you want in ae.

@spotUP

don't undertsand your comment? use SIDS and audio evolution hence why i made the comment

@ spirantho

that's what i was referring to....being asble to plsay back true sid sounds via catweasel in audio evolution

edit: nevermind

Not related to the SID, but thought I should point out that I now have Amstrad CPC 6128 disks reading and writing correctly as well. One more format, I'm running out of formats to implement... :)

@Spirantho

heheh post a list of the currently supported formats, and i'll get you something to chew on.. :P