High Voltage SID Collection Update 52
Date: December 24, 2009

Resulting Version: 52
 Previous Version: 51

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 37,801 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
     874 new SIDs
      65 fixed/better rips
       0 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated
      12 repeats/bad rips eliminated
     470 SID credit fixes
     174 SID model/clock infos
      17 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
       2 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:

 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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# GoatTracker 2.69 #
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V2.69 adds Antti Lankila's newest reSID distortion code, and makes the
filter/distortion configurable. See /I command line option.

http://cadaver.homeftp.net/ (Tools section)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/goattracker2


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# VICE 2.2 #
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VICE is the Versatile Commodore Emulator, it emulates the Commodore C64,
C128, VIC20, PET, PLUS4 and the CBM-II, as well as the C64 DTV, and it
runs on Win32, Unix, DOS, RiscOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, SkyOS, AmigaOS and
GP2X systems.

VICE is *free* software released under the GNU General Public License,
and as such it comes with full source code.

Get it from here:
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/

Changelog here:
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/plain/NEWS

Most important (sound/sid emulation) changes since the last version include:

- Sound core has been reworked to enable lower latency of operation.
  Approximately 50 ms latency values are now routinely reached, and some
  people have reported that as low as 30 ms still works for them.

- ReSID's resampler has been optimized with MMX assembly. Some long-standing
  bugs in resample-interpolate mode were also fixed.

- ReSID-FP has been optimized, too. It clocks the analog parts at half the
  rate now, which saves CPU during filter emulation especially for 6581 modes.

- Added SFX Sound Sampler and SFX Sound Expander emulation.

- Stereo SID $D7xx range support. (x128)

- Replaced old DTVSID emulation with ReSID-DTV. (x64dtv)

- Rudimentary PulseAudio sound driver has been added.

- Added experimental PCI HardSID and Catweasel support. (Amiga port)

- Used AROS (x86, ppc, amd64) new lowlevel libraries which should make USB
  joysticks and joypads usable.

- The CoreAudio sound driver was completely rewritten to support the updated
  sound APIs found in the new Mac OS X versions. (MacOSX port)


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# 1541 Ultimate Sid Player #
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A new firmware (v1.7) is available for the 1541 Ultimate cartridge which
includes a sidplayer. SID tunes can be selected by the file browser of the
cartridge and also sub tunes can be selected.

The new firmware can be downloaded at:

http://www.1541ultimate.net/


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# Sidplay64 V0.5 #
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Sidplay64 v0.5 
A program to play back *.sid files on a real C64. Also displays the
information located in the sid header. It also relocates itself according
to the free relocation pages found inside the header.

This version is just a long due update that makes it IDE64 friendly.

Get it here:

http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=84609