HVSC Update #37 released

[Yodelking]

Hello everyone,

HVSC Update #37 is now available for you to download
at http://www.hvsc.c64.org

After this update, the collection should contain 23,453 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
1977 new SIDs
97 fixed/better rips
219 fixes of PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs
7 repeats/bad rips eliminated
197 SID credit fixes
86 tunes moved out of /DEMOS to their composers' directories
4 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN identified
15 tunes moved out of /GAMES to their composers' directories

It's Christmas time again, and like every year we have prepared something
very special for you all:
Not only do we bring you 2 2 8 0 SID tunes (of which almost 2 0 0 0 are
new ones), but we also decided that it's not much use having hundreds of
digi rips lying around in our Unreleased archive. So for all the people who
are listening to SID music on a real C64 this might be good news:
We added all 219 RSID fixes of PSID specific rips in HVSC!
Most, if not all of them are digi tunes, keep in mind that they can only
be listened to on a real C64 or Sidplay2.

Also be sure to check out Martin Galway's directory after the update:
Thanks to Chris Abbott's great connection to Martin Galway and
Alistair "Boz" Bowness ripping skills we can finally present you the
probably most sought after SID tune on this planet:
The long lost Street Hawk is here in two fantastic versions, one prototype
with less effects and the final version with bells and whistles that ought
to be used in the game.
And of course: Kudos to Martin Galway, who kindly provided his disks!

What more is there to discover in this update?

o A lot of new tunes from classic composers, such as 20CC, Neil Baldwin,
Wally Beben, Matthew Cannon, Mark Cooksey, Ian Crabtree, Deek, Danko, Geoff
Follin, Matt Gray, Stefan Hartwig, Ryo Kawasaki, Marcel Donné, Prosonix,
Sonic Graffiti, Jeroen Tel, Michael Winterberg and many more.

o But also some of the current scene composers have unveiled their old tunes
to us. Just to mention a few: Check out 4-Mat, Agemixer, Abaddon, Amorphis,
Arman Behdad, Blues Muz', Britelite, Cyberbrain, Daf, Decoy, Ed, Factor6,
Fanta, Goto80, Jammer, Klax, maktone, Megastyle, Merman, Mitch&Dane, Moog,
Pater Pi, Rambones, Replay, Sad, Shapie, Skysurfer, SoNiC, Taxim,
Welle:Erdball, Wizard and the fabulous Nylon.

o This update contains the compotunes from SID Compo 3, bcnparty 2003,
Breakpoint 2003, Bronx $7d3, Primary Star 2003, Assembly 2003,
Scenecon '03 and TUM'02
(and a couple more compotunes we found along the way).

o Furthermore, we've now added the remainder of the tunes that have appeared
in the issues of the C64 disk magazine "Domination".

o To make HVSC friendlier to browse we added the following subdirectories:

/20CC:
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/Paul_Falco
/van_Santen_Edwin

/FAME:
======
/Hendriks_Michael
/Knipping_Holger

/Rockin_Limited:
================
/Schaefers_Joerg

/SoedeSoft:
===========
/Soede_Jeroen
/Soede_Michiel

/VARIOUS/M-R/Mitch_and_Dane:
============================
/Dane
/Mitch

It looks nice and clean now and allows everybody to keep track of their
favourite composers easier.

/VARIOUS/M-R/Megastyle/
=======================
The Megastyle musicians Rage, Crockett, Scroll, Lizard and Drumtex wished to
be hosted under one roof, so we moved /VARIOUS/G-L/Lizard/ and
/VARIOUS/M-R/Rage/ to the Megastyle directory.



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New HVSC administrator
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>From this update on Stephan 'Steppe' Schmid has taken over the HVSC
administrator position from Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries. Jan stepped back from
it due to a shift in real life priorities, which is perfectly
understandable.
The whole team would like to express their thanks for the great work he did
in the last two update periods.
Jan will stay in the team and continue to do his quality rips and fixes, if
time allows.


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New HVSC e-mail adress
----------------------

Slaygon kindly established an e-mail forwarder for us. It's easy to remember
and it will reach two people at the same time: Stephan Schmid & Peter
Sandén.
Please update your adress books to

HVSC Administration <hvsc@c64.org>

[ifadeo]

hey, thanks peter.... what a great x-mas gift for us sid-lovers....
esp. thanks for 'Streethawk'....


btw. what's 'bout your next radio-show ??

cheers ifadeo

[Vosla]

Thanks and keep up the good work !

[Waz]

Well it was very hard for me to pick 10 great tunes from this update, but I finally managed to do it. Needless to say, some of them are ripe for remixing so I recommend them highly:

Apart from Galway's Street Hawk (erm, obviously) ten would be like this:

/Gray_Matt/Houndwog.sid (reminds me of Quedex)
/Mad/Hollander.sid (nice work, Marcel Donné!)
/Perdita/I_Just_Go_To_Pieces.sid (Perdita rocks, the first ever proper female C64 composer, so very historically important)
/VARIOUS/A-F/Blues_Muz/Gallefoss_Glenn/Castles.sid
/VARIOUS/A-F/Ed/Aqua.sid
/VARIOUS/A-F/Factor6/Vibrations.sid
/VARIOUS/G-L/Jeff/Space_Journey.sid
/VARIOUS/G-L/Kleinert_Tim/Graphixmania_part_2.sid
/VARIOUS/M-R/No-XS/Nekkid_on_all_fours.sid
/VARIOUS/S-Z/Vip/iSol.sid

Do listen to them all, I'm sure there's something you'd like. If not, there's plenty of others to pick from. Enjoy the update and appreciate the hard work the team put into it, I know I am doing!

[Yodelking]

hey, thanks peter.... what a great x-mas gift for us sid-lovers....
esp. thanks for 'Streethawk'....


btw. what's 'bout your next radio-show ??

cheers ifadeo

Radio show is coming... It was just a lot of work with HVSC lately. After christmas I'll have a go at updating the c-64 composers page, then I'll continue on the radio show... Oh, Merry Christmas everybody!

[Chappers]

Did the 'Ducks' tune that was part of the Air Dance IV demo make it into the latest HVSC update?

I remember there was talk of possibly including it.

Paul

[Waz]

Did the 'Ducks' tune that was part of the Air Dance IV demo make it into the latest HVSC update?

No, but I'll drop some hints.

Part of the reason it was held back was that the tune takes up a lot of memory (understatement) and part of the memory area of the start of the tune used to clash with what was then the RSID specification. That's changed now, so the Ducks tune can now be played in the newest version of Sidplay2/w.

[carlsson]

Perdita rocks, the first ever proper female C64 composer, so very historically important

What does "proper female" mean in this context? Was there any known male composers pretending to be women (Roberta, Martina, Paula, Anthonia and Benita? ;-) before this?

[Chappers]

Did the 'Ducks' tune that was part of the Air Dance IV demo make it into the latest HVSC update?

No, but I'll drop some hints.

Part of the reason it was held back was that the tune takes up a lot of memory (understatement) and part of the memory area of the start of the tune used to clash with what was then the RSID specification. That's changed now, so the Ducks tune can now be played in the newest version of Sidplay2/w.

Just an update on the whereabouts of the 'Ducks' SID I asked about at Christmas.

Very happy to find that the latest HVSC update (no.39 released 27th May) now has this excellent tune.

What's even better is the tune doesn't corrupt after its first play like it did in the 'Ducks' demo. Cheers to Peter and all the HVSC crew for bringing this gem into the collection. Also, Waz deserves a mention for obviously dropping that hint he mentioned.

The location for this SID is at:-

\VARIOUS\S-Z\The_Ancient_Temple\Airdance_4_Chicken_MC.sid

Paul