I grew up with the Commodore 64. The SID chip was the first time I heard music from a computer and actually felt
something. Rob Hubbard’s Commando loading screen, the Monty on the Run theme, Last Ninja’s atmosphere. These weren’t
just game sounds, they were proper compositions squeezed out of three voices and a handful of waveforms.

I wanted to hear them again without firing up an emulator or digging through browser players. So I built SID Jukebox,
a native macOS app that plays SID files directly. It uses the cSID engine by Hermit to emulate the MOS 6581/8580
chip, the same chip that powered all that music back in the 80s.

The app comes with 100 tracks, ranked roughly by community consensus from places like HVSC and Lemon64. The top of
the list is what you’d expect: Commando, Monty on the Run, Last Ninja 2, International Karate, Wizball, Great Giana
Sisters, Turrican. Further down you’ll find deeper cuts like Rasputin, Chimera, Hades Nebula. Composers include Rob
Hubbard, Martin Galway, Ben Daglish, Jeroen Tel, Tim Follin, Chris Huelsbeck, Matt Gray and others.

It supports shuffle, sequential and repeat playback, custom playlists, and sits in your menu bar so it keeps playing
while you work. Universal binary, runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel. No frameworks, no dependencies. The whole
thing is 4MB.

macOS 10.13+