High Voltage SID Collection: Update #58
Date: December 21, 2012

Resulting Version: 58
 Previous Version: 57

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 43,116 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
     906 new SIDs
     185 fixed/better rips
       2 repeats/bad rips eliminated
     971 SID credit fixes
     111 SID model/clock infos
      13 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
      14 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
      33 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
      14 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 (sid) 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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# SID-Wizard #
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Mihaly Horvath (Hermit) created an open-source C64 music tracker. This tracker
runs on the C64 itself and has the following features:

- 50 instruments
- Optimized rastertime and small code size
- No zeropage usage
- 3x25 rows pattern-editing perspective
- Goattrackker-like pattern-editing concept and keyboard control
- Everything on one screen (except menu)
- Polyphonic jamming mode with dovetailing
- Realtime compression of pattern-data
- Per-row based detuning and keyboard-tracking in arpeggio, pulsewidth, filter
  instrument-tables, easier to do flexibel, lively sounds
- Up to 8x (400Hz) multi-framespeed
- Independent track-tempos / funktempos / tempo-programs and scrolling
- 4 vibrato types
- 3..4 simultaneous pattern effects are possible
- Calculated vibrato and slide-portamento speed
- Oscilloscope and pulsewidth/cutoff-frequency displayer bars
- Save/export tune in SID format, runnable PRG format
- Export/import to/from XM/MID format
- and many more features...

The tracker can be downloaded from:

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=112716

The source code can be found here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sid-wizard/files/


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# Tiny'R'Sid #
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Jürgen Wothke created a Flash port of Tiny SID which can be used to play SID
music online. The emulation core has been extended so that RSID tunes can be
played as well. 

Check it out: http://www.wothke.ch/tinyrsid/


##########################
# Player Identifier v1.0 #
##########################

Wilfred Bos has released Player Identifier (PI). PI is a command line tool
which you can use to identify Commodore 64 music players in SID files.

Player Identifier is inspired by the SIDId tool written by Cadaver of Covert
Bitops. PI makes use of all available cores of the CPU and uses the BNDM search
algorithm to search through SID files very quickly.

For more info: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=112812


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# SIDId v1.09 #
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A new version of SIDId has been released. SIDId is a HVSC playroutine identity
scanner made by Cadaver. The project is open-source and is written in C.

The following changes have been made:

- List full filenames when scanning for one player only
- Fixed not recognizing the last byte of a file as part of a sequence

Get the tool here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=112201


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# JSidDevice v1.4.2 #
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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
1.4.2 support for Digi Boost has been added for 8580 devices.

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


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# Hoxs64 v1.0.7.5 #
###################

Hoxs64 v1.0.7.5 has been released. Hoxs64 is a C64 emulator for Windows XP/7.

Changes:

- Added point and click raster position breakpoints. Breakpoints can be disabled
  with out being deleted.
- Added command window with assemble, disassemble and C64 memory map selection.
- Added disassemble window address finder.
- Added disassemble window mouse wheel scrolling (WinXP+).
- Randomisation of drive weak bits. Minor drive timing improvement.

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


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# VICE 2.4 #
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VICE 2.4 has been released. VICE is an open source cross-platform emulator of
several Commodore machines.

This version has a lot of fixes and improvements. Audio related changes:

- Rewrite of the sound system, output is now mono/stereo selectable.
- Split off sid player from c64, new program is called vsid.
- New 1541 drive sounds emulation.
- SFX sound sampler, SFX sound expander and digimax extended to output in
  stereo.
- Added video to audio leak sound support.
- Added Triple SID support.
- Magic Voice cartridge emulation improvements.
- Added PCI Catweasel support (DOS version).
- Added PCI HardSID support (DOS version).

http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/


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# CGSC v1.23 #
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The Compute Sidplayer Collection has been updated and contains now:

12483 MUS files, 3705 STR files and 4461 WDS files.

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


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# UltimateAudio module for 1541 Ultimate-II #
#############################################

A new firmware for the 1541 Ultimate-II has been released (version 2.5+) which
has an Ultimate Audio module included. The audio module has a special 7-voice
audio engine which can be used by C64 software.

Features:

- 7 independent channels
- 8 or 16 bit audio sample playback
- sample rate up to 48 kHz
- volume control per channel
- panning control per channel
- "a-b" looping
- interrupt generation

The new firmware can be downloaded from:

http://www.1541ultimate.net/

The Register API for the Ultimate Audio module can be found here:

http://www.1541ultimate.net/content/download/1541u2_2.5_uaud.zip


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# Ultimate Audio MOD Player #
#############################

Ultimate Audio MOD Player is a MOD player which can only be used on 1541U2 v2.5X
(Audio Module version).

Features:

- Supports only uncompressed 4 channel MODs
- Supports 15/31 samples
- Uses amiga periods and supports finetunes
- Supports every effect (except glissando... yet)

Get it from: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=113522


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# MIDIbox ASIDITY #
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Sauraen and Oikanys are working on a new SID-based synthesizer called MIDIbox
ASIDITY. This synthesizer will support up to 8 SID chips (4 x 6581 and 4 x 8580).

For more info:

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

Here you can find a video about the MIDIbox ASIDITY:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6kdKlcrVUQ


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# Prg2Sid 0.65 #
################

Prg2Sid is a command line tool written by iAN CooG. With Prg2Sid you can convert
PRG files to SID files. The tool automatically attaches a PSID header to a
ripped (prg) tune.

It can also identify some players and sets init/play accordingly. It also
patches the header/code if needed.

Get it from here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=113557


##########################################
# Build your own Pocket SID Audio Player #
##########################################

Jeff Ledger created a Pocket SID Audio player. The SID player uses the Parallax
Propeller micro controller and a SD card where the SID files are stored on.

A manual is available to create your own Pocket SID Audio Player.

The manual and software can be found here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-your-own-Pocket-SID-Audio-Player/?ALLSTEPS


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# MICRO64 1.00.2012.07.19 Build 713 #
#####################################

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 SID related changes have been made since build 670:

- Adjusted SID bus read behavior for "Last Ninja 3" for the case if no 1351
  mouse is enabled.
- Fixed SID digi boost
- Fixed SID SINC resampling
- "SSEized" SID SINC resampling and prepared these code parts for
  "AVXiziation"
- Updated PSID driver
- Fixed bugs and implemented new features in the SID player mode
- Fixed a small bug in the song switching routine in the SID player mode,
  which was happened only at PSIDv2 SID files with C64 compatible mode flags
  state
  
You can get the emulator here: http://www.micro64.de/


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# SID Known v1.05 #
###################

Wilfred Bos has released SID Known v1.05. This version supports now HVSC #58.
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=113862
