High Voltage SID Collection: Update #83
Date: June 28, 2025

Resulting Version: 83
 Previous Version: 82

After this update, the collection should contain 59,886 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
     623 new SIDs
      72 fixed/better rips
       8 repeats/bad rips eliminated
     280 SID credit fixes
      10 SID model/clock infos
      11 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
       1 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
      25 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
       4 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.crew (sid) gmail.com>

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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# DMC 4 Editor 1.1 #
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DMC 4 Editor is a compact yet powerful tool for Windows, designed for editing
and playing Commodore 64 music created with the classic DMC4 Player by
Brian/Graffity (1991). This release adds many new features aimed at improving
usability, music editing precision and workflow for retro music enthusiasts.

Check it out: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=251057


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# USBSID-Pico #
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A new hardware project by LouDnl has hit the scene: USBSID-Pico, a compact
board built around the Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040/RP2350). Designed to
interface one or two genuine (or clone) MOS SID chips. It plugs into any modern
device via USB to deliver authentic SID audio.

Some highlights:

- Dual-chip support: supports 2 6581/8580 SIDs for stereo or quadraphonic output
- Supports real SIDs and replacements like SIDKick-Pico, SwinSID and ARMSID
- Sidplayer/Emulator support:
  - DeepSID
  - SidBerry
  - SidplayFp
  - JSidplay2 / C64Jukebox
  - USB Midi
  - ASID SID Play
  - Vice
  - RetroDebugger
- SID Tracker support via ASID protocol or when running in Vice or RetroDebugger

Recently version 1.3 of the board has been released.

Check out the site for more info:

https://github.com/LouDnl/USBSID-Pico

To see the board in action:

https://youtu.be/nh0SxO1y6I0


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# Sidplay/MAC 5.1.0_111 #
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Sidplay/MAC 5.x is a fork of Sidplay/MAC 4.2 done by Alexander Coers.

It has the following improvements since 5.0.1_95:

- added the Check for Updates feature
- Bugfixes

Check it out:

https://github.com/Alexco500/sidplay5


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# rePlayer 0.19.3 #
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rePlayer is a new multi-format music player for Windows that brings old-school
music to life, offering seamless support for classic formats like SID and MUS
files. It even enhances the experience by playing SID tunes in immersive
surround sound.

Changes since 0.16.9:

- Updated libsidplay to 2.14.0
- Associate extension with replay in settings
- Added Psycle
- Added SunVox
- Added GoatTracker
- Added XMP
- Dx11 fallback when Dx12 is failing
- Display loop points in song end editor
- Rework artist ui
- Rework song filtering with refined filters and more options
- Bug fixes

For more info:

https://github.com/arnaud-neny/rePlayer


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# JSidDevice v4.12 #
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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. JSidDevice
requires Java 8 or higher.

Check out: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=253837


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# JSIDPlay2 v4.12 #
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A new version of JSidplay2 has been released. JSidplay2 is an open-source C64
emulator specialized for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music
collections like HVSC and CGSC. It is a full C64 emulator and can play games of
the GameBase64 project as well. The emulator is written in Java and runs on any
environment that runs Java 8 or higher and it can run in a browser with
JavaScript or Web Assembly support.

Changelog:

- C64Jukebox based on TeaVM:
  https://haendel.ddns.net:8443/static/teavm/c64jukebox.vue
- New WASM_GC version: ~10% faster, half the size
- Runs well even on older hardware (e.g. MacBook Air 2.2GHz)
- Full API docs and UML included
- NTSC bug fixes, better error handling
- Easy switching between WASM/JS versions via About panel
- Experimental C source (CMake-based) added

Get it from: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=253836


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# SidTool 2.3.5 #
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SidTool is a C64 Music Player Emulator Frontend for Windows, build to explore
large chiptune collections. It needs .NET framework 4.8 or higher.

The following has been changes since 2.3.4:

- removed anonymous usage statistics

Get it from here: https://sidtool.de/


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# Prg2Sid 1.25 #
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Prg2Sid is a tool that attaches a PSID header to a ripped (prg) tune. It
identifies some players and sets init/play accordingly. It also patches
the header and code if needed.

Since 1.20 the following has been changed:

- new players identified:
  - Frank Hammer
  - DoubleTracker (2x MusicAssembler)
  - Quantum SoundTracker 1.0 (& demo version)
  - SidFactory II (v4)

Check out: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=253578


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# Sidplayfp 2.14.0 #
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Libsidplayfp (and its console frontend sidplayfp) is a fork of sidplay2 born
with the aim to improve the quality of emulating the 6581, 8580 chips and the
surrounding C64 system in order to play SID music better.

Changes since 2.12.0 release:

- Fix crash when using -b
- Ported to new play API
- Removed support for old library version
- Minor fixes and optimizations
- Force precision to 16 in audio drivers
- Avoid 100% CPU usage when paused
- Display audio driver in use in verbose mode
- Rough approximation of MDAC saturation for the 6581
- New play API for client side mixing
- Minor fixes and optimizations
- Update exsid driver
- resid/residfp: Use more bits for the 8580 filter cutoff
- resid: reduce aliasing noise

Get the new version here: https://github.com/libsidplayfp/sidplayfp


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# VICE 3.9 #
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VICE 3.9 has been released. VICE is an open source cross-platform emulator of
several Commodore machines.

VICE also includes VSID which can be used to play SID files.

SID/Audio related changes:

- added an option that allows to skip soundchip emulation in warpmode
  (to increase performance, at the cost of some accuracy).
- reSID: scale down filtered voices on 6581
- reSID: scale and clip volume by an arbitrary factor, makes 6581/8580 nearly
  the same volume.
- reSID: implement DAC leakage.
- reSID: fix uninitialized var in old filter
- reSID: fixed the 8580 filter voltages, now the values really make sense

You can get VICE from here:

https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/


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# DeepSID #
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DeepSID is an online SID player made by JCH of Vibrants. It emulates music
created for the Commodore 64 home computer. It supports nice features like:

- Toggling between JSidplay2/WebSID/Hermit's jsSID/ASID(MIDI) for SID playback
- SID player and year display for each song
- Create and play playlists
- Rating folders and SID files
- Comment / Discuss SID files
- Profile / CSDb / GB64 / Player / STIL / Piano / Graph view
- Search through HVSC / STIL
- and much more

DeepSID now supports the JSIDPlay2 emulator for playing SID tunes in the
browser.

DeepSID is continuously updated. See the Changes tab for the full change log.

Check it out: https://deepsid.chordian.net/


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# SID Known v1.29 #
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Wilfred Bos has released a new version of SID Known. This version supports now
HVSC #83. 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
(https://hvsc.de) or post it in one of the CSDb forums (https://csdb.dk) like
"SIDs that aren't in HVSC yet".

Get the tool here: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=254223
