High Voltage SID Collection: Update #59
Date: June 28, 2013

Resulting Version: 59
 Previous Version: 58

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 43,856 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
     747 new SIDs
     315 fixed/better rips
       7 repeats/bad rips eliminated
     629 SID credit fixes
     750 SID model/clock infos
       9 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
       5 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
      27 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
      15 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 v1.4 #
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Mihaly Horvath (Hermit) released a new version of SID-Wizard. SID Wizard is an
open-source C64 music tracker. This tracker runs on the C64 itself.

The following has been changed since version 1.2:

- sng2swm converter added
- more examples added
- more pattern-effects added
- F2 playback processes preceding effects
- player-info (size, raster time) and author-info shown

The tracker can be downloaded from:

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=115599

The source code can be found here:

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


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# SID Duzz' It v2.1.6 #
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SID Duzz' It v2.1.6 has been released. SID Duzz' It is a Commodore 64 music
editor made by Geir Tjelta and Glenn Rune Gallefoss.
In this release several bugs has been fixed. Music player
sources has been rewritten to take less raster time. New functions and routines
has been added to the editor and player.

Get it from here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=114693


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# ACID64 v3.40 #
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A new version of ACID64 has been released. ACID64 is a cycle based player for
Windows that can play SID tunes on sound devices with a real SID chip and via
network devices that emulate the SID chip, like JSidDevice that is part of
JSidplay2.

Changes in version 3.4:

- Emulation improvements
- COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer (MUS file) support with support of stereo files. Visit
  Compute's Gazette Sid Collection for Sidplayer tunes
- Improved speed of identifying players
- STIL window state is now preserved (configurable in preferences)
- Second SID device settings for HardSID devices are now stored correctly
- Property dialog to show info about the loaded SID file can now stay open
- Pressing F5 will now refresh folder tree and corresponding files
- CTRL-A can now be used to select all text in search boxes
- CTRL-H is now used for Author search
- UNC paths are now handled correctly
- Rare access denied error fixed when traversing files
- SID Search improvements for searching certain words and characters
- Added "search by this author/publisher/group" feature in search grid
- Added triple click support on the search box to select all text
- ACID64 works on Windows 98 again for HardSID PCI and ISA cards
- Small improvements

The new version can be found at: http://www.acid64.com


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# MICRO64 1.00.2013.05.11 Build 714 #
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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 changes have been made since build 713:

- Various VIA6522 emulation tweaks
- Fixed dead lock bug in the high-tap-count SINC resampler SSE consolve
  inline assembler routine in the SID emulation.
- Added black frame insertion feature for >=100Hz monitors.
- Added BMP screenshot function that can be accessed via Alt+S.
- Added AVI video capturing function with own Open-DML AVI writer and I420
  encoder routines.
- Various another small fixes.

You can get the emulator here: http://www.micro64.de/


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# CheeseCutter 2.5.0 #
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CheeseCutter 2.5.0 has been released. CheeseCutter is an open source
cross-platform music editor. It uses the reSID engine for SID emulation.
CheeseCutter is made by Abaddon of Fairlight.

In this release a lot of changes have been made to the editor and player.
A Mac port is also available now.

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


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# Hoxs64 v1.0.8.0 #
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Hoxs64 v1.0.8.0 has been released. Hoxs64 is a C64 emulator for Windows XP/7/8.

Changes:

- Bug fix to opcodes AXH/SHY/AHX/TAS broken in v1.0.8.3.
- Bug fix to VIC. Removed faulty VIC ClockNextWakeUpClock optimiser code.
- EasyFlash v2 title screen glitch now fixed by correcting the "hard reset"
  code to set the sprite Y expansion flip-flops.
- Added the EasyFlash 1MB cartridge.
- Fixed freeze and soft reset.
- New cartridge emulation with freeze function.
- Fixed misreported raster position in the debugger when starting a new frame.

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


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# 1raster-tracker 1.0 #
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1raster-tracker 1.0 is a new music editor and player made by Mihaly Horvath
(Hermit). As the title already mentions, the tracker only uses 1 raster time
to play the music.

Check it out here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=117935


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# XSidplay2 - v2.1.4 #
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Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux.
XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael
Schwendt. Changes in this version: Libsidplayfp 1.0.2 with resid 1.0
emulation. Fix for the mileage and usage timing calculation and
preliminary resid-fp emulation added.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xsidplay2/


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# Infernal Cycle - C64 #
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Infernal Cycle is a new music program for the Commodore C64. The program
is made by LDX#40. This program is a synthesizer noise generator and can
be controlled with a joystick. LDX#40 used this program at Bended
Realities Festival in Offenbach.

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=119145


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# DefleMask #
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DefleMask is a Multi-System music tracker for producing music for many
sound chips and old school systems. The system uses real-time emulation,
it has an FM instruments editor, Envelopes editor and a Wavetable
instruments editor. DefleMask can produce files for SEGA, Nintendo, NEC
PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16 and the Commodore 64.

http://delek.com.ar/deflemask


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# SID Known v1.06 #
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Wilfred Bos has released SID Known v1.06. This version supports now HVSC #59.
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".

Two new features has been added in this release. For binary searches, you will
now be notified when there are multiple matches found for the same hit
percentage. Also you will now be notified when the match that is found might
not be reliable.

Get the tool here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=119923

