High Voltage SID Collection Update 54
Date: December 24, 2010

Resulting Version: 54
 Previous Version: 53

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 39,626 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
     933 new SIDs
     217 fixed/better rips
       5 PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs eliminated
      21 repeats/bad rips eliminated
     561 SID credit fixes
     258 SID model/clock infos
      28 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
       6 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
      41 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
       9 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@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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# Droidsound v1.1 has been released #
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Droidsound is a multi-format music player for Android devices. It can play
several old and new formats, including MOD, SID, XM, S3M, IT, NSF and VGM.

Some features:

- Uses sidplay2 (and modplug + GME)
- Indexes zip-files (like C64Music.zip)
- Title search
- CSDB metadata browsing


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# JSidplay2 v2.0 has been released #
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JSidplay2 is very well featured SID player that is implemented in Java. It is
based on the source code of Sidplay2 and resid-fp. It has the latest filter
patches from Antti Lankila included. It runs on all platforms that can run Java
programs.

Since version 1.4 a lot have been changed and improved. It has now a video
screen and you can use JSIDPlay2 as a Network SID Device.

For more info check out:

http://jsidplay2.sourceforge.net/


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# Hoxs64 v1.0.6.2 has been released #
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Hoxs64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Windows.

Changes since v1.0.6.0:

- Fixes to the key matrix
- Fixed Time Of Day alarm fail to trigger bug that was introduced in v1.0.5.27
  that may cause the game Hypersports to get stuck on the clay shooting part
- Audio resample mode is now on when restoring default settings
- Adjusted all VIC $D011 and $D016 mode change transitions to give pixel exact
  output
- Improved keyboard matrix emulation. Space bar now works correctly in the
  Nitro 16 demo
- Adjusted VIC light-pen timing
- Adjusted CIA6526A IRQ timing
- Common code base now supports both x86 and x64 compiles.
  (x64 bit version is tested on Windows 7 with full DirectX install)
- Added WinXP styles that use common control library 6
- Adjusted audio sync

http://www.hoxs64.net/


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# ACID64 player v3.0.4 has been released #
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ACID 64 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. It has nice features such as seeking
through SIDs immediately, song length database (SLDB) support and incremental
search features.

Changes in version 3.0.4:

New
- Added native support for JSidplay2 and JSidDevice
- No more real SID chip device needed. Just start the jsiddevice.exe and
  Acid64 will play sids! Hardsid4U is still highly recommended if you want
  best sound quality, though.

Improvements
- Faster startup time
- Emulation improvements
- Copy file/directory added to context menu
- Many small improvements

Fixes
- ACID64 couldn't start on some Windows 7 64 bit machines
- Turning filter off and seek back turned filter on
- Switching device and then seeking could silent the tune
- Fast forward could freeze GUI in some cases

http://www.acid64.com


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# GoatTracker v2.71 #
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GoatTracker is a cross-platform C64 music editor. Supports output via Dag Lem's
reSID engine, the HardSID USB device & HardSID soundcards or CatWeasel MK3.

V2.71 adds possibility to adjust base pitch from the default 440 Hz.

http://cadaver.homeftp.net/ (Tools section)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/goattracker2


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# Dual SID #
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Tomi Malinen has made a dual SID system for the Commodore C64. You can buy the
printed circuit board and assemble it yourself.

Features:

- Small board (40mm x 50mm)
- 6581 or 8580
- Selectable address (D400, D420, D500, DE00, DF00)
- Game compatibility

For more info check out:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/malinto/dualsid/
http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35311