SID-Device is a cross-platform Network SID Device that emulates the Commodore 64 sound chip, a.k.a. SID chip (6581/8580). It runs in a local network or on your own machine.
SID-Device can be used by SID-players like ACID 64 Player Pro, ACID 64 console player, JSidplay2 and USBSID-Player.
SID-Device uses the emulation engine reSID 1.0 that is included in the Commodore 64 emulator Vice.
This project started with the goal to turn a Raspberry Pi into a SID device. You can connect your Raspberry Pi, with Raspberry Pi Desktop installed, to your local network via cable or Wi-Fi and install SID-Device on it. Any SID player that supports the Network SID Interface can then connect to the SID-Device and play SID tunes on it.
To build the source code you need to have the following tools installed: Rust, Node.js and LLVM. For the full prerequisites, follow the guideline of Tauri.
For the first time you need to install all dependencies with:
npm install
Now you can build the project with:
npm run tauri build
The macOS build is ad-hoc signed but not signed with an Apple Developer ID
or notarized, so Gatekeeper will show an "unidentified developer" warning
the first time you open the app after downloading the .dmg. To run it:
- Open the
.dmgand dragsid-device.appto Applications (or wherever you prefer). - Right-click (or Control-click)
sid-device.appand choose Open, then confirm Open in the dialog that appears, or - Remove the quarantine attribute from a terminal:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/sid-device.app
You only need to do this once per downloaded copy.
For documentation about the network SID interface, see the Network SID Device V5.
Thanks to Dag Lem and all the team members and ex team members of Vice who helped with the SID chip emulation.
Thanks to Nuke.YKT for the Yamaha FM OPL3 chip emulation.
Thanks to Ken Händel and Antti S. Lankila for their contributions to developing the network SID interface.
SID Device – Copyright © 2021 - 2026 by Wilfred Bos
Network SID Interface – Copyright © 2007 - 2026 by Wilfred Bos, Ken Händel and Antti S. Lankila
reSID v1.0 – Copyright © 1999 - 2010 by Dag Lem
Nuked-OPL3 – Copyright © 2013 - 2020 by Nuke.YKT
The source code is licensed under the GPL v3 license. License is available here.