cRSID-1.56

I broke up with github long ago to have more control over my stuff, and its interface is not my cup of tea anyway, it behaves as an uninformative waster with a slow/limited internet connection. CSDb file-storage is much better in this regard (except for upload nowadays). But feel free to commit the source-code to github if you want to use, collaborate on, or contribute to the code, and if you prefer the github way. (There are some examples to this already at github with older cRSID versions.) I don't plan to release a new version anytime soon (except maybe for possible fixes).

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Submitted by Gazza on 27 December 2025

I've noticed that your Github repo is gone..... What's up with that?

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Submitted by Hermit on 26 December 2025

Thanks, good to know it works for you too.
I just uploaded the promised 32bit ARM package which I just tested on my Raspberry Pi Zero's armel Debian. It built without a hiss on the Raspberry (albeit with the full -O3 optimization the compilations took many minutes), and the different generated cRSID executables ran fine too except the one with my stripped internal SDL.

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Submitted by apprentix on 23 December 2025

Fantastic! Thank you for Linux support!

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Submitted by Puma on 22 December 2025

Works fine on Linux Mint, thx

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Submitted by Hermit on 22 December 2025

While integrating the new cRSID into my SID-Wizard development codebase I noticed that OSC3/ENV3 readout became non-operational as a side-effect of the latest big 1.55 code-overhaul. I kinda noticed the lack of Echo in Echoes.sid of Geir Tjelta but I thought that might be due to other reasons. So I fixed it in this release, and at the same time I made a lot of improvements, additions in a single day today. Most noticeable are the addition of direct ALSA library selectable to libcRSID instead the SDL-based audio (which uses ALSA too behind the scenes). It makes most sense in the new 'crsid_cli' commandline-only version which therefore only depends on ALSA which is readily available in most Linux systems, unlike SDL. Also, I integrated a very stripped-down version of SDL1.2 (even more so due to the release-uploading problems I just faced again), which can be built into the app increasing its size from 300..400kB to 600..800kB but at the same time eliminating SDL dependency, but still providing GUI experience... This way even the libsdl1.2-dev compile-time package-dependency is eliminated. I think the GPL licenses in SDL (including Hermes MMX/X86 assembly routines) allow for this kind of usage, as I understood from the licence docs that remained inside with my short notes added about the modifications (stripping down, and a workaround in SDL's ALSA driver against tight loops while waiting for the soundcard.)
Roundabout these are the news summarized in the fresh README.txt, including the reworked CLI keyboard-handling, which allows holding down keys for fast-forward and doesn't echo the pressed keys, has a bit more pleasant usage...
From now on I decided not to build and support for other operating systems, just for Linux... which is what I have, and which I have control over.

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