High Voltage SID Collection: Update #49
Date:  November 09, 2008

Resulting Version: 49
 Previous Version: 48

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 36,081 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):
    1059 new SIDs
      54 fixed/better rips
       2 fixes of PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs
      10 repeats/bad rips eliminated
     431 SID credit fixes
     232 SID model/clock infos
       9 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
      40 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers' directories
      14 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers' directories


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# HardSID 4U has been released #
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The HardSID 4U is the most powerful SID synthesizer since the legendary C64!

Features:

- Two CPUs and main memory 
- USB connection (compatible with both 2.0 & 1.1) 
- Isochronous USB endpoint for low-latency audio 
- VSTi interface with 8000Hz update rate on all SID registers (free) 
- Wave-in VSTi pin for routing 8000Hz signals to any registers (example: playing
  other VSTi's sound on the volume register) 
- Full automation of all VSTi parameters 
- Superior sound quality (..it is a HardSID!) 
- Support for up to four SID chips (6581/8580/6582 in any combination) 
- Updateable firmware over USB 
- Microsoft Vista compatible (drivers for Win2000/XP/Vista) 

..and if you're a C64 fan:

- Cycle-accurate playback of your favorite SID tunes
- Digitized sound + high-speed playback with low CPU utilization
- Seamless playback of .sid tunes while you work on your PC by providing a huge
  playback buffer for non-VSTi applications

The HardSID 4U Studio Edition:

- Full physical separation of the SIDs from the USB driven circuits
- 100% elimination of EMI (Electromagnetic interference) noise that may come
  from your PC via USB
  
http://www.hardsid.com/

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# SIDPLAY 4.0 has been released #
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SIDPLAY 4.0 is a Commodore 64 music player for Mac OS. It emulates the sound
chip and other internals of the Commodore 64 home computer to play back music
that was originally written on it. 

This is the biggest version of SIDPLAY yet. Completely rewritten from scratch,
designed as the ultimate SID music player for the best operating system.

SIDPLAY 4 boldly goes where no other SID music player has gone before.

Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher, runs on PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.
Support for HardSID and Catweasel cards is not included in this version.

Check for the list of new features at:

http://www.sidmusic.org/sidplay/mac/

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# ACID 64 Player 2.4.0 has been released #
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ACID 64 player is a cycle based Commodore 64 music player designed for playing
SID tunes on sound cards/devices that have a real SID chip on board.

A new version of ACID 64 Player has been released with the following
improvements:

- Emulation improvements 
- STIL info can now be retrieved for a SID file if it is not played from the
  default HVSC location 
- When HardSID 4U device is turned off while ACID 64 Player is running and
  turned on again, playback can continue after song restart
- Opening SID files via Internet Explorer is now possible. This makes it
  possible to play SID tunes via the online SID search of www.hardsid.com.

http://www.acid64.com/