High Voltage SID Collection: Update #61
Date: June 28, 2014

Resulting Version: 61
 Previous Version: 60

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 45,418 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
     749 new SIDs
    1479 fixed/better rips
       1 repeats/bad rips eliminated
     727 SID credit fixes
     323 SID model/clock infos
      19 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
       4 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
      45 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
       5 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers' directories

Yet another milestone reached: 45,000+ sids, and that happened just 2 months
after the previous update! Looks like the C64 musicians have infinite lives!

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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# Vicious: Sound card for the Apple-1 computer #
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Vicious is an expansion sound card for the Apple-1 computer. The card has a SID
and CIA chip on board and ROM with firmware (open-source) that includes the
Vicious SID Player. The card supports both the 6581 and 8580 SID models. The
Vicious Sid Player is able play many of the tunes created for Commodore 64
environment, but not all.

See: http://sampopeltonen.github.io/Vicious/


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# CGSC v1.28 #
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The Compute Sidplayer Collection has been updated and contains an extra 94 MUS,
6 STR & 37 WDS files.
The totals are now 13644 MUS files, 4043 STR files and 4737 WDS files.

Get the collection here: http://www.c64music.co.uk/


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# FRODIGI #
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Naveed Khugiani (aka Algorithm) released FRODIGI (Free Running Oscillator Digi)
for the C64. FRODIGI is a new method of playing back digitized samples. It uses
all the 3 oscillators of the SID chip and a master volume to recreate the audio.
It can store 4 minutes of audio in less than 41 KByte.

More info: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=131019


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# Kerberos - C64 MIDI Interface #
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Kerberos is a C64 cartridge with a MIDI interface.

Features:

- Supports MIDI devices such as keyboard and synthesizers.
- MIDI-in, MIDI-out and MIDI-thru ports.
- File transfers PC / Mac.
- Internal flash memory chip with a menu system, for saving your own programs
  and games.

Check out: http://www.startnext.de/en/kerberos


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# Hoxs64 v1.0.8.7 #
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Hoxs64 v1.0.8.7 has been released. Hoxs64 is a C64 emulator for Windows XP/7/8.

Changes:

- Resizable main window for windowed mode.
- Fix Ultimax VIC fetch.
- Fixed an EasyFlash cartridge fault when loading a 4KB banked CRT/state file.
- Added emulation state file save, load and restore facility.
- Added Epyx Fastload cartridge.
- Added screen border hide options.
- Fixed Retro Reply cartridge banking fault.
- Reworked the CPU code to accommodate XAA/ANE for a MOS8500.
- Bug fix to opcodes AXH/SHY/AHX/TAS broken in v1.0.8.3.
- Bug fix to VIC. Removed faulty VIC ClockNextWakeUpClock.
- EasyFlash v2 title screen glitch fixed.
- Added the EasyFlash 1MB cartridge.
- Fixed freeze and soft reset.
- New cartridge emulation with freeze function. CRT format is supported.
- Fixed misreported raster position in the debugger when starting a new frame.

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


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# PlayEm64 V1.0 - C64 #
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PlayEm64 is a tool made by TheRyk to play .SID files on your C=64.

More info: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=130072


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# WebSID #
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Igorski created an online synthesizer using the WebAudio API which
pays homage to the Commodore 64's SID chip.

Check out: http://www.igorski.nl/experiment/websid


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# Emu64 V5.0.9 #
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Thorsten Kattanek released a new version of his C64 emulator. This version
includes emulation improvements and it has now REU emulation support. The new
version is also available for Android devices.

More info: https://bitbucket.org/tkattanek/emu64/wiki/Home


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# HerMIDI / SID-Wizard #
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HerMIDI is a MIDI interface for the C64 made by Hermit. The schematics,
firmware and PCB are available so you can built one yourself. This device
is supported by the SID-Wizard music editor.

Get it here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=126812


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# CCS64 v3.9.1 #
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CCS64 V3.9.1 has been released. The following has been fixed/changed:

- Fix: Multi-threading issues that could cause CCS64 to crash on Windows 8.x.
- Fix: Several analogue anomalies have been fixed, e.g. Crest's EmuSuxx0r.
- Several PAL artifacts, blurring, etc. have been implemented.

Check out: http://www.ccs64.com


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# SIDSpectro #
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Sebastian Macke made an online SID player with a spectrum analyzer made in
Javascript. It supports only PSID files.

Check out: http://simulationcorner.net/Sidplayer/


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# SD2IEC SID Player #
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Epy released a utility called SD2IEC SID Player for the Plus/4 machine.
Together with the BSZ SID-card you can play Commodore 64 SID tunes on your
Plus/4 machine.

More info: http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/SD2IEC_SID_Player


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# Online SID Player by Sasq #
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Sasq released an online SID player. The player is based on the SID VicePlugin
made by Antti Lankila. The player has a SID search feature to easily search
through SID files in HVSC.

Check out: http://swimsuitboys.com/hvsc/


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# SID Known v1.08 #
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Wilfred Bos has released SID Known v1.08. This version supports now HVSC #61.
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".

Get the tool here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=131617

