Hvsc Update #46 Out

[iAN CooG]

 Finalmente dopo una lunga attesa e continui rimandi e' disponibile il nuovo aggiornamento.

High Voltage SID Collection Update #46
Date:  January 21, 2007

   Resulting Version: 46
    Previous Version: 45

After this update, the collection should contain 33,000 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
     1014 new SIDs
       71 fixed/better rips
        2 fixes of PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs
       13 repeats/bad rips eliminated
      664 SID credit fixes
      160 tunes assigned a sidmodel flag
       24 UNKNOWN demo tunes identified

As usual, the update and the all-in-one packages are available from
http://www.hvsc.c64.org


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# ATTENTION, READ THIS:                                                #
# Due to the massive directory structure changes that are made in this #
# update, the update tool takes very long to complete! It reaches 60%  #
# pretty quickly, but then it may seem as it may have crashed. Have    #
# patience please, we've had reports that the update takes between     #
# 10 to 45 minutes, mainly depending on how fast and/or fragmented     #
# your harddisk is.                                                    #
# Read more about the structural changes below.                        #
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This update features the tunes from the following parties:
X'06, c64.sk Sidcompo 6, Big Floppy People 2006, Breakpoint 2006,
North Party 10, Primary Star 2006 and of course all the tunes from the
10 Years HVSC music collection.


Main Composers featured in this update:
(Artists marked with NEW are either completely new to the HVSC
  or they get their own directory in this update)

Alien/WoW
A-Man
  -> with previously unreleased stuff exclusively available in HVSC
Art of Noise
Richard Bayliss
  -> we've dug up 67 new tunes from him, with his kind help
Arman Behdad
  -> the Trance master is active again, check out Electric_Jesus.sid
Glenn Rune Gallefoss
  -> he kindly packed up some unreleased previews for us
Chapelier
  -> one of the guys behind www.c64.com, he sent us his complete works
CRD
  -> NEW! A promising new sid musician enters the scene!
Dalezy
  -> still going strong with mellow minimalistic melodi
DRAX / Maniacs of Noise
  -> that old melody master just won't stop composing candy for our ears!
Ed/Wrath Designs
  -> the Aphex Twin of the sid scene is back with an activity peak
Fanta
  -> some fantastic goodies in there again by Onkel Fanta!
Ghormak   -> NEW!
Hein Holt
  -> One of the multitalents of the 64 scene: He pixels, he codes and he
     composes brilliant music
Jac
  -> old Riffs hero from the 80s, good oldschool stuff
Jammer
  -> always pushing the sid to new limits. This time with special focus on
     analog speech synthesis (no sampled digis, everything made "by hand"!)
     His HVSC.sid is probably the best tune _ever_ in that department
Josstintimberlake
  -> another avantgardistic sid musician brings us more data vibes
Laxity
  -> yeah, you read correctly, the old famed composer is churning out
     blips and blops again, as if it was 1989!
Linus
  -> bringing us more follin'ish gangsta tunes!  :-)
Maktone
  -> with some good mood party tunes again, hooray!
Adam Morton  -> NEW!
Markus Müller
  -> Superbrain sent us some old GCF tunes, cheers mate!
Ne7
  -> composer of the DTV Hummer game soundtrack, and generally a
     very sophisticated musician (Electronat will blow you away!)
Psycho
  -> ventures into the deep trancey department
Radiantx
  -> A comparably new sid composer brings us some complex and dense
     oldschoolish tunes
Randall
  -> As usual MC Randall can't miss to place at least one or two smash
     hits in every HVSC update. Very Polished stuff, in every meaning
     of the word.
Rio
  -> NEW! Another youngster in the club of C64 composers.
Rupert Dissident
  -> NEW! Another one of those home composers who just pop up now and then
     and ask us if we have use for some twenty+ unreleased tunes.
     Pretty good stuff he did, placative and complex.
Rusty46
  -> We bring you 52 tunes from this swedish guy, all done in 2005-06.
     Innovative elements coupled with catchy hooklines!
Sidder
  -> Smart arrangements, unusual instruments - Sidder is always exploring
     different paths, from conventional to experimental.
Stainless Steel
  -> Joe cooked up some brilliantly arranged remixes of recent pop hits
     for us.
Jeroen Tel
  -> Jeroen once again opened his treasure chest of unreleased tunes and
     gave the scene three "new" songs. But we also found a bit of old and
     forgotten stuff from him.
Xiny6581
  -> Another one of those rather new sid musicians, but a valuable
     enforcement. Give these tunes some time, they don't release their
     message in the first 3 chords.
Zabutom
  -> Ha, only about a year ago he entered the stage and now he's working
     the sid like an orchestra that was made just for him! Wow!



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SID/HVSC RELATED NEWS BULLETIN
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# Fundamental directory structure change #
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   In this update the HVSC Crew decided to fundamentally overhaul the HVSC
   directory structure and re-sort it.
   There are a few disturbing things in the current HVSC directory structure:
   1. Inconsistencies to our own rule as to what is root and what is VARIOUS.
      There are composers in VARIOUS that, according to our rules should be in
      the root and vice versa.
   2. With more and more composers surfacing and others getting their own
      directories by gathering their 3 tunes, the directory trees grew to huge
      sizes (several screens high), which made navigating and maintaining a bit
      cumbersome.
   3. The term VARIOUS and the fact that the tunes inside that directory were 3
      directory levels further down than the glorious root composers was
      considered unfair by a lot of people. Discussions went in circles
      thinking about a better name (SCENE? POST_1993?) or to organize the root
      dir similiarly (CLASSICS? PRE_1993?), so we finally decided to go for a
      completely new sorting structure:

/DEMOS
  /0-9
  /A-F
  /G-L
  /M-R
  /S-Z
  /UNKNOWN
-> Sorting structure is now similiar to the /GAMES directory.
    No changes to the rules were made as to what goes into DEMOS.
    It's still the same, it contains tunes from demos made by composers
    that are either unknown or that have composed less than 3 tunes overall.

/DOCUMENTS
-> No changes here

/GAMES
  /0-9
  /A-F
  /G-L
  /M-R
  /S-Z
-> Again, nothing changed apart from the added /0-9 subdirectory.
    The GAMES directory still contains tunes from games made by composers
    that are either unknown or that have composed less than 3 tunes overall.

/MUSICIANS
  /0-9
  /A
  /B
  /C
...
-> Basically we've merged the root directory and the old VARIOUS directory,
    giving up the A-F/G-L/M-R/S-Z sorting and going for a plain alphabetic
    flat sorting structure. A composer still needs 3 or more tunes to get into
    the MUSICIANS directory, in order to avoid cluttering up HVSC with
    hundreds of directories that only contain one or two tunes.

We think we found an unbiassed and futureproof solution with that new sorting
structure: It's easier to maintain. It's easier to navigate. It's more fair:
No more discussions about "why is composer x in the root, shouldn't he be in
VARIOUS?" or "composer y made 3 gametunes before '93, shouldn't he be in the
root?".
In addition, an almost flat structure like that hopefully encourages one or
the other guy out there to program a proper frontend for HVSC one day.
Be it in form of a tool or a website interface, so people can conveniently
switch between several HVSC "views", assign "favourites" flags to tunes and
composers etc. If you've got the skills and the time/motivation to help us
in making this vision reality, drop us a mail at hvsc@c64.org.
Especially a motivated webdesigner with PHP/MySQL knowledge would be a
welcome addition to the team.

HVSC has grown almost too big to jump around in Windows Explorer without
getting lost, so we hope you get used to the new structure and like it
just as we do.

There were concerns that people new to HVSC would get lost in the new
structure as they are usually searching for their favourite game tunes from
back then, which basically boils down to: Hubbard, Galway, Follin and Tel.
We think that people will still find what they're looking for, only it takes
them a little longer than before. And who knows how many gems they may find
on their hunt for that old tune by randomly clicking into other composers
directories, which were previously buried in VARIOUS.


######################################
# 10 Years HVSC - a music collection #
######################################

HVSC was founded by The Shark in May 1996. To celebrate the 10th anniversary
of the collection we released a music collection which runs on a real C64
or emulator of choice. It's included in this update in various diskimage
formats, so you can check it out right now. It features 40 exclusive musics
by
6R6 of Nostalgia, Onslaught
_V_ of 64ever, Padua, Raiders Of the Lost Empire, Viruz, Warriors of the Wasteland
A-Man of Xenon
Adam Gilmore
Adam Morton
AleksiE of Carillon
Asterion of Tinnitus
BlackBeltJones
Cadaver of Covert Bitops
celticdesign
Chris Huelsbeck
dalezy of Triad
Deetsay of Panic
DRAX of Crest, Maniacs of Noise, Vibrants
Factor6 of Anubis, Phantasy, Raiders Of the Lost Empire, Rock'n Role Staff
Fanta of Chorus, Oxyron, Plush, Viruz
Goto80 of Hack n' Trade, Oxsid Planetary, Up Rough
Hein of Focus, Onslaught, Vision
Inge of HVSC Crew
Jammer of EXclusive ON, MultiStyle Labs, Samar Productions
Jan Krolzig of HVSC Crew
Jenny16
Jeroen Tel of Focus
Joachim Wijnhoven
Laxity of Starion, Wizax
Maktone of Fairlight
Markus Schneider
Psycho
Randall of MultiStyle Labs, Red Brand
Richard of The New Dimension
Rio of Rattenrudel
Sidder of MultiStyle Labs, Samar Productions
SounDemoN of Church 64, Dekadence, Onslaught
Surgeon of Vulture Design
T.C.
UL-Tomten
Xiny6581 of Dees Productions, Skalaria
Yodelking of HVSC Crew

It's kind of a diskmag with articles about the history of HVSC and other
sid related topics. Features a jukebox mode, so the next tune automatically
loads when the current one has reached the end or the loop point.

You can also get it from the C64 scene database, where you're able to
place a vote or comment on it. Enjoy!

-> http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=44014

[Luca/FIRE]

 Tsè! Ed io che per fare il furbo ho cancellato interamente la versione precedente, ed ho riscaricato lo zip totale globale! "Così ci vorrà un attimo" mi sono detto; invece: un'ora di spacchettamento, zio marzullo!

Oh comunque, mi chiedevo: ancora nessuno ha hackato i veri Juke Bok o Compilation 64 o Music System per poi inviare tutto ai signori HVSC?

[iAN CooG]

 

Tsè! Ed io che per fare il furbo ho cancellato interamente la versione precedente, ed ho riscaricato lo zip totale globale! "Così ci vorrà un attimo" mi sono detto; invece: un'ora di spacchettamento, zio marzullo!

Eh la miseria, cosi' tanto?
Io ho scaricato il paccone rarrato da 42mb stamani in ufficio perche' non avevo la precedente e ci avra' impiegato 2 minuti a decomprimerlo. Ci ha impiegato di piu' a fare l'update dalla #45 qua a casa. Avevi l'antivirus attivo per caso?

Oh comunque, mi chiedevo: ancora nessuno ha hackato i veri Juke Bok o Compilation 64 o Music System per poi inviare tutto ai signori HVSC?

Spiega meglio: cosa sono sti "veri jukebox" e il resto

Edit: chattando con rob mi ha fatto capire che intendevi le compilation della Systems. Ho controllato Disk'o'Teca (jukebox)
http://ready64.altervista.org/download/sch...?id_download=39
il lato A contiene musiche fatte in Master Composer, 10 su 16 sono gia' presenti in
DEMOS\UNKNOWN\Master_Composer
le altre 6 sembrano mancanti e le ho gia convertite:

Time_Out.sid
Light_Years.sid
Metal_Disco.sid
My_House.sid
Yoho.sid
Alien_Souls.sid

ora provvedo alla ricerca dei brani sul lato b, fatte in MusicMaster/Huelsbeck.
...anche questi tutti presenti
GAMES\A-F\Dylan_Dog-Notti_Luna_Piena.sid
MUSICIANS\0-9\4wd-soft\Pull.sid
MUSICIANS\0-9\4wd-soft\Bass_Rumble.sid
MUSICIANS\0-9\4wd-soft\True_Faith_Renegade.sid  

[Luca/FIRE]

 

Io ho scaricato il paccone rarrato da 42mb stamani in ufficio perche' non avevo la precedente e ci avra' impiegato 2 minuti a decomprimerlo. Ci ha impiegato di piu' a fare l'update dalla #45 qua a casa. Avevi l'antivirus attivo per caso?

Sì, ma questo non giustifica un'ora di spacchettamieeend. Vabè, ora siamo a posto comunque...

Bel lavoro, vai di conversione Ian!
Spero si possa fare qualcosa anche dagli imbarazzanti Compilation64 e soprattutto l'improponibile Computer Music, che adoro già.

[iAN CooG]

 Fatta anche la computer music, lato 1, separando le varie entries, 30 sid in tutto.
Li mando ora all'HVSC, se li vuoi fammi un fischio.

[iAN CooG]

 LOL!  Compilation64 altro non e' che un rip di Synth Sample, usato anche in Swinth, un demo grafico proveniente da Compuserve, molto ma molto famoso.
DEMOS\S-Z\Synth_Sample.sid

[Roberto]

 

LOL!  Compilation64 altro non e' che un rip di Synth Sample

Pensavo che la rivista Com64 (di Load'n RUN) presentasse insieme ai tragici rip di giochi stranieri, anche qualche sporadico programma originale. Come nel caso di questo "Compilation 64". Ma mi sbagliavo
Vedro' se e' il caso di rimuovere la scheda download... per ora rimane (aggiornata con le ultime info) in attesa di una decisione, unicamente a fini nostalgici.

[iAN CooG]

 Novita', i sid inviati hanno permesso di identificare 4WD_Soft come l'autore di questi e altri sid

all compositions then repetition /MUSICIANS/0-9/4wd-soft/
except: Time_Out.sid
If all compositions are musican 4wd-soft this this also

Time_Out.sid
4wd-soft

and

/GAMES/A-F/Dylan_Dog-Notti_Luna_Piena.sid
4wd-soft

/GAMES/A-F/Dylan_Dog-Notti_Luna_PSID.sid
4wd-soft

MOVE
/GAMES/A-F/Dylan_Dog-Notti_Luna_Piena.sid
/GAMES/A-F/Dylan_Dog-Notti_Luna_PSID.sid
/new/Time_Out.sid
/MUSICIANS/0-9/4wd-soft/