High Voltage SID Collection: Update #57
Date: June 24, 2012

Resulting Version: 57
 Previous Version: 56

Hello fellow lover of SID music!
Nice you found some time to read through this script, to see what has been
changed in the HVSC and for what reason.

After this update, the collection should contain 42,212 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
     975 new SIDs
     239 fixed/better rips
      13 repeats/bad rips eliminated
    3136 SID credit fixes
     396 SID model/clock infos
      38 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
      18 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
      72 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
      24 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers' directories

We are always looking for others to help make HVSC a better collection.
If you find any errors or have new rips to add, please email:

 iAN CooG  <hvsc@c64.org>


Thanks to all the people who have helped to make HVSC the
collection that it is today, without your help it would be
a much tougher task.


SID RELATED NEWS:


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# Home Computer by Press Play on Tape #
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PPOT released their third album 'Home Computer' with a brilliant mix of new
remixes, some original tracks, and remakes of their older tracks.

They have launched the CD on May 12th at their live concert.

Check out:

http://www.pressplayontape.com/


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# CCS64 V3.9 #
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CCS64 V3.9 has been released. The following has been fixed/changed:

- FIX: The TAP of the game 'Bombuzal' now loads properly.
- FIX: A random slow-down problem has been fixed.
- FIX: The 'Sync To Screen' option has been fixed.

http://www.ccs64.com/


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# C64 Bass Keytar #
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Jeri Ellsworth showed a Commodore 64 based bass guitar at the
"Bay Area Maker Fair". She combined a bass guitar with a C64 and a FPGA system.
The FPGA system reads the signals from the guitar strings and the C64 keyboard.
The input is processed by the FPGA and send to a real SID chip to produce the
sound.

Check it out here:

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2012/05/20/jeri-ellsworth-her-commodore-64-bass-guitar-thing/


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# SIDboard #
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Stefan Noack developed a hardware SID device using an Atmel Atmega162 micro
processor. ACID 64 Player is used to play the SID tunes on the SIDboard. The
project is open source and the schematics and firmware is available to build
your own SIDboard.

See the demonstration and details here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnngOMU8Wp0


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# JSidplay2 2.5 #
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JSidplay2 version 2.5 has been released. JSidplay2 is a Commodore 64 emulator
specialized for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music
collections like HVSC and CGSC.

Get it from: http://jsidplay2.sourceforge.net/


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# SID CHIP SOUNDS – THE MUSIC OF THE COMMODORE 64 #
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"SID Chip Sounds – The Music Of The Commodore 64" is a compilation of music
from classic Commodore 64 computer games. The 18 original pieces of music have
been remastered for this release on gatefold double vinyl, CD and download.

Check out:

http://www.robotelephant.co.uk/post/14167812637/new-release-sid-chip-sounds-the-music-of-the

The Vinyl and CD are also available on several shops like:

http://c64audio.com/
http://www.amazon.com/
http://www.bol.com/


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# PSID64 0.9 #
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PSID64 version 0.9 has been released by Roland Hermans. PSID64 is a tool for
converting SID tunes into PRG files.

New features:

- Added support for PSID/RSID v3 formats.
- When applicable display info for second SID.
- Prebuilt binary for OS X (Lion) available.

Get it from: http://psid64.sourceforge.net/news.php

A WIN32 build can be found here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=104424


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# CheeseCutter 2.3.2 #
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CheeseCutter 2.3.2 has been released. CheeseCutter is an open source
cross-platform music editor build around the JCH-editor. CheeseCutter is made
by Abaddon of Fairlight.

Check out: http://theyamo.kapsi.fi/ccutter/


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# JSidDevice v1.4 #
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A new version of JSidDevice has been released. JSidDevice is a network SID
device which can be controlled by SID players like ACID64 Player. With version
1.4 you're now able to select the sound card which should be used.

Check out: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsidplay2/files/jsiddevice/


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# TriBorg-SID-Player #
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TriBorg released a SID player for the HIVE computer system. The SIDs can be
stored on the SD card in DMP format which can be created with the SIDDumper
tool.

See the demonstration and details here: http://hive-project.de/content/2403


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# CGSC v1.22 #
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The Compute Sidplayer Collection has been updated and contains now:

12228 MUS files, 3597 STR files and 4360 WDS files.

For more info: http://www.c64music.co.uk/


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# FPGA SID emulation on AlienCortex AV #
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syso4 has created SID emulation on a AlienCortex AV board. ACID 64 Player
is used to play the SID tunes.

See the two demos here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgX873AzbT8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twzoIpvYIT4


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# Hoxs64 v1.0.7.4 #
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Hoxs64 v1.0.7.4 has been released. Hoxs64 is a C64 emulator for Windows XP/7.

Changes:

- The application is marked as "DPI Aware" now.
- Added a work in progress breakpoint listview with context menu options.
- Illegal opcode tweak for demo 'Errata' by Emulamer.
- Fixed stack corruption crash when reading G64 files with custom speed zones.
- Fixed application lock up bug while drag scrolling the disassembly window.

More info: http://www.hoxs64.net/


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# C64 Music Player for Bada 2.0+ #
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C64 Music Player is a SID player for Samsung Bada 2.0 platform. With this
application you can browse through HVSC and check top rated songs and featured
songs for each day. It supports extended stereo separaton as well.

Get it from here:

http://www.samsungapps.com/topApps/topAppsDetail.as?productId=G00003522662


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# SID Player for Nokia N9 #
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SID Player is a music player application for the Nokia N9 smartphone that can
play music made for the Commodore 64 computer.

Check it out here: https://sites.google.com/site/pmlswd/sid-player


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# MIDIbox ASIDITY #
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Sauraen and Oikanys are working on a new project called: MIDIbox ASIDITY. The
synthesizer is built with the NXP LPC1769 processors and MIDIbox SID software.
The system will control up to 8 Commodore 64 SID sound chips (4 x 6581 and
4 x 8580) and it will have the following features: 160 modulators, 256 SID
controls, 44 knobs, 240 buttons, 760 LEDs and a built-in 32-track step
sequencer.

See the demonstration here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEBtCp4_rTg

More info on the project:

http://midibox.org/forums/topic/16471-midibox-asidity/


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# Sidreloc 1.0 #
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Linus Akesson has released Sidreloc. Sidreloc is a tool for relocating SID
tunes using a novel but remarkably simple algorithm. It can also relocate all
zero-page variables used by the tune.

Sidreloc is capable of relocating 91% of HVSC out of the box. Many of the
remaining tunes can be relocated by tweaking the settings to fit them.

More info: http://www.linusakesson.net/software/sidreloc/index.php

A WIN32 build can be found here: http://csdb.dk//release/?id=109000


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# Xsidplay 2.1.2 #
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XSidplay2 version 2.1.2 for Linix has been released.

XSIDPLAY2 is a QT based SID music player for Linux. It is based onto Michael
Schwendt's XSIDPLAY. The latest version now uses libsidplayfp with resid 1.0 by
default.

Check out: http://xsidplay2.sourceforge.net/


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# MICRO64 1.00.2012.06.16 Build 691 #
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MICRO64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Windows and Linux aimed to become the
most accurate C64 emulator. Currently MICRO64 has two different VIC II
emulation modes (both are half-cycle exact).

The following has been changed/added:

- Updated PSID driver
- Added fast cold reset at switching between SID sub songs
- Fixed bugs and implemented new features in the SID player mode
- 1541 emulation optimizations and bug fixes
- Enabled EasyFlash write back support
- Added cartridge write back option setting
- Added optional filter for too NRZI transition pulses (a ka fluxes), whose
  time distance is smaller than or equal 2.5 microseconds.
- Fixed a possible deadlock bug in 1541 emulation routines.
- Fixed some bugs in the G64 loader and writer
- Added enhanced settings for VIC-II sound audio leak stuff (DC offset
  removal filter, additional 15 kHz noise, etc.)
- Fixed some small beauty-bugs in both VIC-II emulations
- Added on/off setting for OpenGL canvas texture interpolation as wished by
  some people
- Added "HLT is jam" on/off setting
- Fixed swapped-little-endian/big-endian-bug in the CRT cartridge loader
- The Mac OS X build is a 32-bit & 64-bit Intel x86 Universal Binary now.
- Added 64-bit Windows build
- Fixed corrupted side border graphics bug in the second fast dynamic pixel
  block-wise VIC-II emulation.

MICRO64 is under heavy development and is updated regularly.

Check out: http://micro64.de/


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# Vicious SID Converter v0.3 #
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Vicious SID Converter converts SID files from the C-64 to SID-emulating programs
for the VIC-20.

New features:
- more usable zero-page locations
- song is selectable for analysis & conversion
- improved analyser

Get it from here:

http://code.google.com/p/vic20emu/downloads/detail?name=VicSidCon-0.3.zip&can=2&q=


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# SID-Blaster/ZX #
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SID-Blaster/ZX is a new soundcard for the ZX-Spectrum compatible computers made
by Sergey Bagan (Prusak) and Alexander Alexandrow (Byteman).

It features the following:

- MOS 6510 CPU
- 64KB RAM
- Direct playing of PSID and RSID tunes
- PAL/NTSC compatible
- Support 6581 and 8580 SID chip

Details can be found here: http://zxbyte.ru/sid_blaster_en.htm


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# VirtualC64 0.9.6.1 #
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VirtualC64 0.9.6.1 has been released. VirtualC64 is a C64 emulator for Mac OS X.

Changes:

- Lions native fullscreen mode now works as expected (no more ugly borders) 
- Removed old fullscreen mode which frequently crashed on lion machines 

More info: http://www.dirkwhoffmann.de/virtualc64/


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# SID Known v1.04 #
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Wilfred Bos has released SID Known v1.04. This version supports now HVSC #57.
SID Known is a command line tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from
SID and PRG files.

This tool can be used if e.g. you want to know which SID tune is used in a
specific C64 demo or C64 game, or you have a SID tune found or ripped and you
want to know if it is already in your SID collection.

SID Known can be used to identify music but it also helps to find out which
tunes are not in the High Voltage SID Collection. If you find music not found
by SID Known, it would be appreciated if you report this to the HVSC crew
(http://hvsc.de) or post it in one of the CSDb forums (http://csdb.dk) like
"SIDs that aren't in HVSC yet".

Get the tool here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=109492
