High Voltage SID Collection Update 50
Date: May 01, 2009

Resulting Version: 50
 Previous Version: 49

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 36,000 SID files!

 This update features (all approximates):
      678 new SIDs
       59 fixed/better rips
      573 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated
      189 repeats/bad rips eliminated
      482 SID credit fixes
      135 SID model/clock infos
       15 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
       10 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
       36 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
       11 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers' directories


As you can see, a great amount of files were eliminated in this update.
We decided to remove all the old _PSID files that have a RSID equivalent.
Those _PSID files were only hacks meant for digitized sounds to be played in
Sidplay1, but not on real C64. The _PSID files will be eliminated in every
future releases as soon as new RSID versions of the same .sid files are added.
For those still needing the _PSID files we have put them in a separate archive:

http://hvsc.c64.org/Downloads/C64MUSIC_PlaySID.rar


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:

 Jan Harries, 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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# VICE 2.1 has been released #
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A new version of VICE has been released.

To name a few changes: a more accurate ReSID engine using floating point math
(ReSID-FP) has been added, vsid GUI has been reworked and it also has now
support for the USB HardSID (HardSID 4U).

Check out all the new features at:

http://www.viceteam.org/


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# CCS64 V3.7 has been released #
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A new version of CCS64 has been released.

Check out all the new features at:

http://www.ccs64.com/


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# SIDPLAY/W 2.5 has been released #
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Inge Pedersen has released SIDPLAY/W 2.5. It is based on Antti Lankila's ReSID
filter distortion simulation.

Download the new version at:

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=76056


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# HardSID 4U Winamp plug-in has been released #
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HardSID 4U Winamp plug-in v1.0 has been released. The Winamp plug-in is based on
the latest emulation core of ACID 64 and developed by Hard Software.

Features:

- Seek in .sid files on cycle-accurate SID hardware!
- Remote-control your SID files using an IR remote controller!
- Enjoy the benefits of Winamp playlists! (+song-length support)
- Put sub-songs on your playlists!
- Build interesting community SID listening stats published at:
  http://www.hardsid.com/stats.php

Download the plugin from:

http://www.hardsid.com/files/other/HardSID%204U%20Winamp%20Plugin.rar

Check out the HD Video ScreenCast (Watch in HD and full-screen):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTnSEUxYkm0


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# HVSC Search Engine by Jools Smyth has been updated #
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The HVSC search engine maintained by Jools Smyth has been updated:

http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Special:HVSC

It now defaults to a new more powerful boolean search. Also, there is now
an option to display remixes from remix.kwed.org.


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# Rambones demonstrates the phenomenon known as multispeed SID sounds #
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Rambones demonstrates the phenomenon known as multispeed SID sounds.
Sound making on a Commodore 64 computer. Recorded on an emulator.
Remember!: it sounds better on a real C64! SID 6581 used, it can do distortion.

http://vimeo.com/4024322


