#music · 3 posts

Getting SID music to play cleanly inside a demo.

11 October 2026 Engineering hard

Seamless Loading in No Bounds

How No Bounds hides loading on the C64: background loading with Sparkle, transitions that cover the disk, clean IRQ handovers and music sync.

Series: No Bounds

06 May 2025 Tools intermediate

SIDBlaster, a tool that emulates C64 SID tunes to trace every memory access, so it can relocate, disassemble, optimise and link them to players.

01 June 2023 Engineering intermediate

Finding and fixing uneven music play calls in C64 demos, using VICE monitor traces to spot missed, doubled and drifting calls.

Series: No Bounds