High Voltage SID Collection: Update #67
Date: June 24, 2017

Resulting Version: 67
 Previous Version: 66

After this update, the collection should contain 49,542 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
     600 new SIDs
     139 fixed/better rips
       1 repeats/bad rips eliminated
     313 SID credit fixes
     299 SID model/clock infos
       4 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
      21 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
      16 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
      16 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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# New SOASC recordings #
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The Stone Oakvalley's Authentic SID Collection has now recorded all HVSC
updates from #50 to #66 on 4 different SID chips in MP3 and FLAC format.
At the moment, they are recording all the music from the CGSC collection.

More info:

http://www.6581-8580.com/


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# Music Studio 2.2.0.3 #
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Music Studio is an open-source Windows-based SID music creator software. It uses
RESID-FP for SID emulation, both old (6581) and new (8580) SID chips. Music
Studio is capable of creating 1x speed tunes and alternate many SID chip
parameters directly with various commands. Classic and new C64 sounds can be
created with envelope parameters that can be set up in a few simple steps.

Changes in this release:

- Fixed a small output bug that would generate a lone "!by" for any
  EnvelopesAttackDecay etc table.
- When choosing "play envelope" the song index should be forced to 0.
- Ticks value was not correctly set for Note Table command 1.
- Dynamic track/table/block quick help reference in the lower right-hand corner.

Check it out: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=156437


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# Virtuoso 1.01 #
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Hein Holt released a new version of his C64 music editor. Virtuoso is an
open-source music editor that runs on the C64. It has a nice interface and the
player supports 8 commands per tick. The editor comes with some example tunes
as well.

Changes:

- Source code included
- Fixed copy/paste instrument routine that destroyed the project header.
- Fixed broken project headers of included demo-projects.
- Added jump to loop position when pressing return on the loop value in
  instrument tables.
- Added hack to circumvent the grey dots where possible.
- Added demo project Hodgepodge.

Get the new version from: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=156325


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# Hoxs64 v1.0.9.2 #
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Hoxs64 v1.0.9.2 has been released. Hoxs64 is a C64 emulator for Windows.

Changes:

- Fixed memory leak when changing the floppy disk image.
- The joystick game controller will now respond to all POV/hat switches.
- Fixed CPU opcodes SHS SHA SHY SHX ARR (decimal mode) to pass the VICE tests.
- Added SID noise write back behaviour.
- Corrected the SID master volume position to be after the SID filters.
- SID ring modulation fix.
- Corrected sector gaps when reading a D64.
- Adjusted 1541 drive motor spin down timing.
- Fixed fault with save state / load state.
- Fixed fault with FDI save.
- Fixed Ultimax open address fetch.
- Added P64 1541 file format.
- Fixed numerous bugs with the CIA Time Of Day clocks.
- Improved CIA emulation to handle multiple accesses to address $DD0D.

Get the new version from: http://www.hoxs64.net/


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# VICE 3.1 #
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VICE 3.1 has been released. VICE is an open source cross-platform emulator of
several Commodore machines.

VICE also includes VSID which can be used to play SID files.

SID related changes:

- SID filter improvements.

You can get VICE from here:

http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/


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# BLACKBIRD 1.0 & 1.1 #
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BLACKBIRD belongs to a family of C64 music editors known as trackers, where
musical data is organised into tracks. The editor is made by Linus Ĺkesson and
it runs on the C64 itself.

Features:

- Guaranteed maximum of 18 raster lines (often less).
- Support for streaming playback (with small resident player of 9-12 pages).
- Syncpoints.

BLACKBIRD 1.1 is released as well and it has the following changes:

- Unpack buffers can be relocated also for sid format.
- Realtime clock was running at wrong speed after invoking cartridge routines.
- Duration of track 00 was sometimes computed incorrectly by birdcruncher.
- Default output name in birdcruncher was a.sid regardless of format.

Get the editor from here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=156809


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# Polyanna V1.00 #
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Polyanna is a 8-channel music editor for the Commodore 64 written by Aleksi
Eeben. It plays 3 regular SID channels together with 5 emulated SID channels on
a stock machine. Old SID chip (6581) is required.
The mixer is based on Sid Vicious, a SID emulator that Aleksi Eeben wrote for
VIC 20 in 2006. For optimal performance the emulated channels in Polyanna are
optimized for pulse waveform only. Pulse width modulation and envelopes are of
course supported, although they're rough.

More info: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=153091


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# Threesome V1.0 #
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Threesome is an alternate version of the Polyanna music editor written by
Aleksi Eeben. This editor has no emulated PWM voices and it uses 1 or 2
additional SID chips at addresses $DE00 and $DF00 instead.

Check out the release at: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=156147


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# JSIDPlay2 V3.8 #
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JSidplay2 version 3.8 has been released. JSidplay2 is an open-source C64
emulator specialized for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music
collections like HVSC and CGSC. It is a full C64 emulator and can play games of
the GameBase64 project as well. The emulator is written in Java and runs on any
environment that runs Java 8.

Changes in version 3.8:

- A network SID client has been added.
- Bug fixes have been made.

Get it from: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=153293


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# JSidDevice v3.8 #
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A new version of JSidDevice has been released. JSidDevice is a network SID
device which can be controlled by SID players like ACID64 Player. This version
requires Java 8 and it has support for both ReSID-fp and ReSID 1.0 emulation
implementations. ReSID 1.0 devices are named: Light*, Average*, Dark*.

Check out: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=153294


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# cSID #
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Last year Hermit (Mihály Horváth) released jsSID which is written in
JavaScript. Now Hermit made cSID which is a SID player written in C. cSID is
more enhanced than the JavaScript version. The sound engine runs at 1Mhz and
it has 22x oversampling.

cSID can be downloaded here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=153597


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# cSID-light #
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Hermit (Mihály Horváth) released cSID-light. This cSID version is pretty much
enhanced with better 6581 filter emulation (with filter-distortion) and
playlist capabilities. Still operates in commandline (linux by default), and
eats much less CPU resource than the original cSID which clocks sound emulation
at 1MHz.
Most SIDs can be played with csidl fine though due to the non-cyclebased
operation ADSR can behave differently than on real machine.

The source code has a lot of comments in it which explains the internal workings
of the SID chip.

Get cSID-light from here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=156587


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# Reformation 2 C64 Soundtrack Remakes by Matt Gray  #
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Matt Gray started another Kickstarter project with the goal to make an album of
20+ remakes of C64 soundtracks. The project was successful funded and is
estimated to be released in May 2018.

More info:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1289191009/reformation-2-c64-soundtrack-remakes-by-matt-gray


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# NinjaTracker MOD V2.04 #
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Spider Jerusalem released a version of NinjaTracker with some small
modifications. NinjaTracker is a music editor with a quite minimal feature set
that runs on the Commodore 64/128.

The changes are:

- Removed dmc style keyboard layout
- Added pause for long directories
- Changed f-keys to goattracker/sidwizard style:
  F2/F5 play from mark
  F3/F4 stop playing
- Changed some of the colorscheme behaviour

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=152640


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# SID-2-LMMS #
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Eli Innis created a tool in Scratch for importing SID files into the LMMS
audio workstation (https://lmms.io/) by using the siddump tool. This year he
rewrote the tool in Python that he wants to release soon.

Check out: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/46518132/
Example tracks made with LMMS: https://soundcloud.com/doyousketch2/tracks


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# Interview with Gaetano Chiummo #
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GeoAnas interviewed Gaetano Chiummo. You can read the interview here:

http://www.iamretro.gr/a-sid-adventure-introducing-gaetano-chiummo-hokuto-force-samar-productions/


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# Turrican Orchestral Selections #
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Chris Huelsbeck started a Kickstarter campaign for a limited collector's edition
box-set featuring new live orchestra recordings of music from Turrican 1, 2 & 3
plus a bonus CD of the Amiga soundtrack album.

More info:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chris-huelsbeck/turrican-orchestral-selections-new-amiga-album


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# SID Known v1.13 #
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Wilfred Bos has released SID Known v1.13. This version supports now HVSC #67.
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".

The following has been improved in this version:

- New DLL interface
- Increased performance
- Fixes thread locking issue for some CPUs

Get the tool here: http://csdb.dk/release/?id=156859
