Hello everyone, HVSC Update #38 is now available for you to download at www.hvsc.c64.org After this update, the collection should contain 25,149 SID files! This update features (all approximates): 1695 new SIDs 126 fixed/better rips (129 SIDs) 2 fix of PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs 9 repeats/bad rips eliminated 106 SID credit fixes 280 SID model infos 18 tunes moved out of /DEMOS to their composers' directories 7 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN identified :-) 19 tunes moved out of /GAMES to their composers' directories (and 3 go back into /GAMES due to a wrongly credited tune) This time we bring you: o another dose of 1000+ new SIDs, in an effort to finally clean out our Unreleased archive. And it's still not empty yet... [sigh!] o Like always we present all the latest scene releases, such as from demos and musiccollections that were released since christmas. o The music compo tunes from several parties: Xmas Compo 2003, Deadline 2003, TUM 2003 and Out Of Orderia 2003 (hope I didn't forget anything important). o You probably already noticed it, but it's worth stating again: The High Voltage SID Collection has reached the magical 25,000 mark! Who would have thought we would ever come this far? Only a couple of years ago we were thinking about if we would ever reach the 15,000 limit. How naive! :-) Let's start the race towards the 30,000, the support of you, the SID music lovers, shall be the wind in our back. Please keep up sending tunes, notify us of missing ones, let us know about bugged rips, submit your STIL entries. And I can promise you that the SIDoine will continue flowing through your blood vessels! :-) Main composers featured in this update: M E R M A N Stefan Hartwig Kochan_Maciej Jörg Rosenstiel Scroll Agemixer Merman Amadeus/Attic Mr.Bungle Amadeus/Meka Design Ramos John Ames Replay Compod Signor Arne Tips Richard Bayliss Tjagvad Klax Warnock Stefan Weinert Welle: Erdball Wodnik Peace The Gee ----------------------------------- New version of Sidplay2/w released! ----------------------------------- Get the new version here: NEW URL: http://www.gsldata.se/c64/spw/ ------------------------ New PPOT album released! ------------------------ The great Press Play On Tape have released their second album RUNSTOP/RESTORE! It features a great set of C64 tunes in a new rocky outfit, such as Arkanoid, Hypaball vs. 2000 AD, Bionic Commando, Comic Bakery, Wizball. They even have small previews of some of the tracks on their website, surf over to http://www.pressplayontape.com/ ----------------------------------------------------- Volker Meitz (PRI) releases his first album Vertikal! ----------------------------------------------------- Tasty tunes, wonderful vocals and all styles under the Jazz banner. Head over to http://www.infracom-records.de/ and click on the "Meitz" drop down menu on the left. You can even preview the whole CD there! ------------------------------- Remix64: Into Eternity out now! ------------------------------- Remix64: Into Eternity hit the stores recently. The CD which has taken 1.5 years to make features Markus Schneider and Thomas Detert (among others), and is one of the most ambitious c64 remix CD's to date. With over 20 persons working on the project and introducing many real instruments such as flutes, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Violins and five different vocalists the CD was an epic to produce. Get it here: http://www.mbdrecords.com/ ----------------------- JC64Dis beta 1 released ----------------------- JC64Dis is a java application of the project JC64 java C64 emulator that disassembles a prg/sid/mus file, giving comments to memory locations. In this version, it uses a patched sidld (sid Length Detector) for managing its memory state. This means that it can tell you which part of a tune is the player and which is the note data. http://www.sf.net/projects/jc64/ --------------------------- GoatTracker updated to V1.5 --------------------------- GoatTracker has rewritten playroutine, which uses testbit hardrestart exclusively (better soundquality), and takes a bit less rastertime. http://www.covertbitops.c64.org/ ----------------------------- HardSID PCI has been released ----------------------------- The successor of our popular HardSID ISA is ready to ship now. HardSID PCI has the best sound quality and software support on the market. It is the best solution for listening C64 SID music, playing games and demos with the original sound and it is the most serious SID based MIDI synthesizer after the HardSID Quattro PCI. Supported in SIDPlay1-2, CCS64, VICE, Minus/4, GoatTracker, etc... http://www.hardsid.com/ ------------------------- Asterion Sid-Tracker v1.0 ------------------------- A new sid music editor has been released by Samar and the new c64 music group Tinnitus. Download it from http://tinnitus.prv.pl ---------------- VICE 1.14 is out ---------------- The VICE Team strikes again with another release of the popular VICE emulator. It features some bugfixes over the last version, such as improved sprite collision detection and more accurate 1581 emulation. But also some new features were added, like support for 1570 and 1571 drives or the ability to record the emulator output to video or audio streams. NEW URL: http://www.viceteam.org --------- HVMEC 0.2 --------- For the aspiring composers Stefano Tognon, the author of the SIDin magazine, has now updated his C64 music program database to version 0.2. The High Voltage Music Engine Collection (short: HVMEC) now contains 98(!!!) different music editors or trackers to make music on your C64. http://digilander.libero.it/ice00/tsid/hvmec.html ------------ SIDedit 4.01 ------------ Lala has released a new version of his popular ripping tool. It features a lot of improvements over the last version, so be sure to check it out at http://lala.c64.org or directly here: http://www.transbyte.org/SID/SIDedit_download.html