I love my IDE64 cartridge. One of its most underrated features, however, is the ability to play audio CDs. Yes, play CDs with your Commodore 64! How cool is that?
The IDE64 comes with a very basic BASIC program to demonstrate the API, but it's not very user-friendly. Since the CDROM on my C64 is the only CD player in my recroom, I wanted to make it really easy for anyone in my family to be able to switch the C64 on and play CDs if they want. So I wrote this program. The mouse/joystick control is provided by the excellent DuoDriver.
Notes on this version (v2):
Hardcoded to Drive #13 for the CDROM, but you can change it in the BASIC portion (line 3)
New Features: Time and Track# work, plays whole CD in continuous mode, shuffle and repeat work, minor bugfixes.
Requires IDEDOS 0.9, version 20050917 or later.
To install, download ide64cdplay2.sfx, copy it to your IDE64 drive, load and run. The files will be extracted to the hard drive. Press F1 to load !CDPLAYER and run it.
The included README program shows the keys as in the screenshot below.
Coming eventually:
Position bar.
Custom skins, just like that other program.
