Show HN: Online SID-Player with spectrum viewer

http://simulationcorner.net/Sidplayer/index.html

by s-macke • 13 years ago

21 17 13 years ago

Sounds like childhood :-)

mfincham2• 13 years ago

This is lovely. It seems to bug out in Firefox 25 when I switch away from the tab it's on - any debugging info that would be useful?

chengsun3• 13 years ago

This is probably because Firefox (and Chrome) clamps the setTimeout interval of background tabs to 1 second to improve performance.

mfincham2• 13 years ago

Huh? Is that new? Can I turn it off?

s-macke5• 13 years ago

Sorry, but this is an issue of the browsers.

chengsun3• 13 years ago

Also check out this JavaScript Amiga MOD player by gasman:

http://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/jsmodplayer/

s-macke5• 13 years ago

He should update it to work with Firefox. Since Firefox 25 they have changed to Web Audio.

egypturnash• 13 years ago

This is awesome.

Ring modulation and samples seem to be missing? I've been humming Hubbard's theme to "Nemesis the Warlock" this past week so I pulled that up and its ominous drones were just... off.

I also decided to try Crowther's theme to "Zig Zag" to see how it would cope with the torture test of a play routine running more than once a frame; that got pretty mutilated too.

But when it works, it's pretty damn awesome!

s-macke5• 13 years ago

Thanks. Yes, some features are indeed missing. But most of the tunes are working fine. I am thinking to emscript reSID or something.

tech-no-logical2• 13 years ago

would probably be awesome (love SID tunes), but I get noting in latest firefox beta, nothing in latest chrome, nothing in latest opera, and nothing in internet explorer 11.

my guess there's something wrong.

s-macke5• 13 years ago

It works under Firefox 25 and Chrome. Should also work with Firefox 23 and 24. The others I have not tested. But some of them lack audio support. And I would not try Firefox beta. They have changed the audio API and probably fixing bugs right now. I had problems to get it running under Firefox 25 after they implemented the web audio API.

s-macke5• 13 years ago

A lot of songs are not working. Try only the button "Slightly Random Choice.sid" They all work.

tech-no-logical2• 13 years ago

that was it. the rest of the menu gives me nothing, the random button works fine :) great stuff.

bane• 13 years ago

Works fin-ish in Chrome Version 31.0.1650.48 m. but if I put it into background tab it sounds like a broken record.

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