High Voltage Sid Collection Update 50

[iAN CooG]

 Finalmente siamo stati in grado di aggiornare HVSC, e' stata dura ma anche questa volta ce l'abbiamo fatta.

http://hvsc.c64.org

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

Resulting Version: 50
 Previous Version: 49

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 


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...mp%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

[Freshness79]

 Onore al merito, per fortuna c'é chi salva dal tempo queste piccole-grandi opere d'arte di chip music.
Ottimo lavoro iAN, congratulazioni a tutto il team di HSVC!