Information About the Creators of High Voltage SID Collection ============================================================= The HVSC Crew is composed of some of the biggest SID fans in the world. Below is some information about the people who helped make HVSC possible. Note: ----- The file is split into Current and Retired members, in order of them joining the HVSC team. Favourite Top 100 SIDs -------------------------------- Below is the current Top 100 favourite SIDs in HVSC according to the HVSC Crew past and present, along with SID fans that voted, so you can see at a glance which C64 tunes people like: 1. /Daglish_Ben/Last_Ninja.sid 2. /Galway_Martin/Wizball.sid 3. /Hubbard_Rob/Sanxion.sid 4. /Hubbard_Rob/International_Karate.sid 5. /Hubbard_Rob/Commando.sid 6. /Tel_Jeroen/Cybernoid_II.sid 7. /Hubbard_Rob/Delta.sid 8. /Galway_Martin/Rambo_First_Blood_Part_II.sid 9. /Hubbard_Rob/Monty_on_the_Run.sid 10. /Galway_Martin/Arkanoid.sid 11. /Hubbard_Rob/Crazy_Comets.sid 12. /Tel_Jeroen/Cybernoid.sid 13. /Ouwehand_Reyn/Last_Ninja_3.sid 14. /Gray_Matt/Last_Ninja_2.sid 15. /Gray_Fred/Mutants.sid 16. /Hubbard_Rob/Knucklebusters.sid 17. /Hubbard_Rob/Auf_Wiedersehen_Monty.sid 18. /Cooksey_Mark/Ghosts_n_Goblins.sid 19. /Hubbard_Rob/Nemesis_the_Warlock.sid 20. /Galway_Martin/Green_Beret.sid 21. /Brennan_Neil/Way_of_the_Exploding_Fist.sid 22. /Dunn_Jonathan/Platoon.sid 23. /Huelsbeck_Chris/R-type.sid 24. /Daglish_Ben/Cobra.sid 25. /Huelsbeck_Chris/Great_Giana_Sisters.sid 26. /Tel_Jeroen/Myth.sid 27. /Follin_Brothers/Ghouls_n_Ghosts.sid 28. /Bjerregaard_Johannes/Stormlord.sid 29. /Galway_Martin/Parallax.sid 30. /Hubbard_Rob/Lightforce.sid 31. /Deenen_Charles/Zamzara.sid 32. /Galway_Martin/Comic_Bakery.sid 33. /Tel_Jeroen/Robocop_3.sid 34. /Galway_Martin/Yie_Ar_Kung_Fu.sid 35. /Joseph_Richard/Defender_of_the_Crown.sid 36. /Tel_Jeroen/Turbo_Outrun.sid 37. /Hubbard_Rob/Master_of_Magic.sid 38. /Clarke_Peter/Ocean_Loader_v3_0.sid 39. /Hubbard_Rob/Spellbound.sid 40. /Daglish_Ben/Trap.sid 41. /Bjerregaard_Johannes/Sweet.sid 42. /Huelsbeck_Chris/Dulcedo_Cogitationis.sid 43. /Hubbard_Rob/IK_plus.sid 44. /Daglish_Ben/Thing_Bounces_Back.sid 45. /Dunn_Jonathan/Robocop.sid 46. /Future_Freak/Cooperation_Demo.sid 47. /Hubbard_Rob/Zoids.sid 48. /Tel_Jeroen/Supremacy.sid 49. /Gray_Matt/Driller.sid 50. /Hubbard_Rob/One_Man_and_His_Droid.sid 51. /Tel_Jeroen/Savage.sid 52. /Hubbard_Rob/ACE_II.sid 53. /Hubbard_Rob/Thrust.sid 54. /Gray_Fred/Hysteria.sid 55. /Hubbard_Rob/BMX_Kidz.sid 56. /Yip/Scroll_Machine.sid 57. /Huelsbeck_Chris/Baby_Of_Can_Guru.sid 58. /Huelsbeck_Chris/To_Be_on_Top.sid 59. /GAMES/S-Z/Wizardry.sid 60. /Walker_Martin/Armalyte.sid 61. /Follin_Brothers/Gauntlet_III.sid 62. /Hatlelid_Kris/Grand_Prix_Circuit.sid 63. /Bjerregaard_Johannes/Nightdawn.sid 64. /Follin_Brothers/Scumball.sid 65. /Beben_Wally/R_I_S_K.sid 66. /Future_Freak/Rocky_Star.sid 67. /Hubbard_Rob/Mega_Apocalypse.sid 68. /Huelsbeck_Chris/Katakis.sid 69. /Hubbard_Rob/Gerry_the_Germ.sid 70. /VARIOUS/A-F/ATOO/Compleeto.sid 71. /Tel_Jeroen/Eliminator.sid 72. /Daglish_Ben/Bulldog.sid 73. /Cooksey_Mark/Ramparts.sid 74. /Daglish_Ben/Ark_Pandora.sid 75. /Hubbard_Rob/Warhawk.sid 76. /Daglish_Ben/Vikings.sid 77. /FAME/FAME_1.sid 78. /Galway_Martin/Times_of_Lore.sid 79. /JCH/Batman_long.sid 80. /Galway_Martin/Mikie.sid 81. /Crowther_Antony/Zig_Zag.sid 82. /Tel_Jeroen/Battle_Valley.sid 83. /JCH/Chordian.sid 84. /Tel_Jeroen/Combat_Crazy.sid 85. /Tel_Jeroen/Hawkeye.sid 86. /Galway_Martin/Short_Circuit.sid 87. /Laxity/DNA_Warrior.sid 88. /Whittaker_David/Glider_Rider.sid 89. /Tel_Jeroen/Kinetix.sid 90. /Turner_Steve/Uridium.sid 91. /Bjerregaard_Johannes/Thunderforce.sid 92. /Hubbard_Rob/Kentilla.sid 93. /Bjerregaard_Johannes/Crazy_Comets_remix.sid 94. /Clarke_Peter/Mission_of_Mercy.sid 95. /Tel_Jeroen/Afterburner.sid 96. /Baldwin_Neil/Aural_Manouvers_II.sid 97. /Galway_Martin/Never_Ending_Story.sid 98. /Galway_Martin/Ocean_Loader_v2.sid 99. /Walker_Martin/Snare.sid 100. /Brennan_Neil/Fist_II-Legend_Continues.sid ############### Current Members ############### *********************************************** * The Shark of International Network of Chaos * * - USA * *********************************************** Contributions ------------- The grunt work! Sorted and searched and sorted and searched. :) Eliminated a billion repeats by hand (or ear?). Dug up a few C64 titles for friends to rip. Contacted several composers asking (begging) for help. Corrected thousands of credits. Made the original release of the UPDATE tool and other SID tools such as SID2LFN. Now attempting to become a novice ripper. Comments -------- Looking back to the old days on the C64, I can't remember when I first started to really listen to the music, but I distinctively remember being blown away by Commando (Hubbard) and its very famous high-score music. After that, it was all of the tunes jammed into Lettermaker/Futurewriter that really got me hooked. No other system since has been able to compare. Also, thanks to Strider of FairLight for introducing me to SIDPlay! C64 History ----------- Upgraded from a Vic20 to a C64 in 1983. Started INC in 1987 which specialized in importing/exporting software from/to Europe, and we also managed a few USA cracks. Kept C64 to this day in order to still hear the music (and perhaps play an old game or two). *************************************** * Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries * * Rambones/The Supply Team, 1985-1989 * * - DENMARK * *************************************** Contributions ------------- Added several hundred new tunes from his collection and others. Helped verified SID musician list. Ripped even more tunes (has this guy ripped the most of anyone?). Helped with giving several tunes the proper credits. Added a few ideas that helped make the collection better. And even now he still tirelessly rips SIDs :) Comments -------- I'd just like to get in contact with 2 of my old friends in the SID business: Jipe/The Supply Team, and Banana/The Electronic Knights. Write to me! C64 History ----------- My interview at In Medias Res.: http://imr.c64.org/ go into 'C64 persons' and click my name. **************************************************** * Adam Lorentzon - SWEDEN * **************************************************** Contributions ------------- Added new conversion options to SIDPlay (Win) that helped out this collection tremendously. Provided a ton of credit fixes. Helped identify tunes in the collection. Relayed several new SIDs and now has become a proficent ripper himself. Also maintains the up to date Windows version of Sidplay. Comments -------- Check out the C64 Games WWW Page at http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d93-alo/c64/ It has the SIDPLAY/Windows homepage amongst other bits of C64 nostalgia, and a massive list of links. ************************************************** * Kristoffer Johansson - SWEDEN * ************************************************** Contributions ------------- Ripped a ton a highly requested tunes as well as making better rips of tunes already in HVSC. Also provided credit fixes and some other great information. Comments -------- SID music simply makes me feel good. The songs from the good old 64 have a musical honesty, brought by the crude environment in which they were created. And every now and then, the quality of the these compositions really astonish me. True art, of our time. **************************************************** * LaLa (Imre Olajos, Jr.) - HUNGARY * **************************************************** (note: LaLa's favourite SIDs are also in SIDPlay Lists - get them from the URL below) Contributions ------------- Indirectly was responsible for forwarding many tunes. Maintained the SID Tune Information List (STIL) until Update #16. Also runs the SID Hunt Web page, which is where to go to request a tune to be ripped for HVSC. Rumoured to be writing his first book, "The Power of Perl" at the same time ;) Comments -------- C64 music is the alpha and the omega in my life. I knew there was something special going on when I heard LOCO from Ben. Then I learned it was really Jarre - so I got into Jarre. I remember when I first heard Commando by Rob - I was just totally blown away, but the funny thing is that nobody in my neighborhood really understood why I was so crazy about such blip-blop computer muzak... The rest is history, and music in general became an essential part of my life. C64 History ----------- The first computer I have ever touched: a ZX-81 at age 6. Then came Spectrum, something I really wanted but never got 'cause my Dad bought me a C-64 instead. I don't think I will ever regret his decision. :) Have never been into the scene, but I had good contact with swappers, so I was always flooded with games and demos (who wasn't? ;). Unfortunately, I had to sell my C64 before we moved to the US from Hungary. I still remember that sad date: on October 6, 1991 I waved goodbye to my beloved machine... HVSC and Michael's SIDPLAY has truly saved my sanity!!! LaLa's SID pages (SIDPlayLists, STIL stuff, and other SID-related things) -> http://lala.c64.org **************************************************************** * Andreas Varga (mr.sid) * * (as an alternative) - AUSTRIA * **************************************************************** Contributions ------------- Has provided several rips and is known for his mega-fast transfering of party competition SIDs to PSID format. Provided some credit fixes and other useful information. The lone MacOS representative. :) Comments -------- SID music is an integral part of my life. Not a single day passes without me spending at least an hour listening to my favourite tunes. I remember the early spring of 1987. I was 11 years old, sitting in school, with my walkman, playing a tape of Commando by Rob Hubbard. My teacher took it away... Man, I was pissed ! :) Gosh, this was FOURTEEN years ago !! C64 History ----------- Laming around in the non-existent Austrian scene. mr.sid's web site -> http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426444/ ******************************** * Gabriele Priarone (G-Knight) * * - ITALY * ******************************** Contributions ------------- Provided several credit fixes. Sent in some SIDs after learning how to rip. Ran the old HVSC News web page which keeps track of the latest rips submitted to the HVSC crew. He is now working on a collection of Amiga game music tunes. Contact him if you are willing to help. Comments -------- I still remember the days passed listening to C64 music. I often loaded some games only to hear their awesome music. I then recorded many tapes with hours of C64 musics on them to hear them whenever I was willing to. Most people don't understand the real meaning of music. It doesn't matter the sounds, doesn't matter the quality, the only thing that should be considered are the melodies. Most people think C64 music is crap only because it doesn't feature real drums or famous musicians' speech.. well, they'll never know what they're missing. C64 History ----------- The first computer I've ever seen was a ZX-Spectrum at the age of 7 ...damn, I can't really remember what I saw, but I was amazed by the things it could do. I and my brother decided to buy it, but my father thought that would have been better to buy a C64. It was 1987. I've never regretted his decision. I still remember my first original game I've ever played: DeathWish 3 with awesome music by Ben Daglish. This was the first happy moment of my life. The second happy moment of my life was 8 years later, when i found SidPlay V1.23b in a BBS with a little collection of music included... Until then I thought I was the only fool who listened daily to C64 music, but I was not alone! :) ******************************************* * Warren Pilkington (Waz/Padua) * * - ENGLAND * ******************************************* Contributions ------------- Warren is quite an authority on British software houses. This has lead him to send us quite a number of credit fixes in addition to providing some interesting C64 music/game history. Warren has also provided tons of tunes, added several STIL entries, fixed bad rips, and has contacted many composers for some proper information as well as filtering out many a repeat. Took over from The Shark as main admin after Update #11 (sheesh, that was four years ago now!). Comments -------- For me, the SID chip was ahead of its time when launched into the C64 many years ago. The original 6581 was simply a design for life, and soon realised many great themes from the likes of Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway. What was more, most tunes didn't sound like 'chip' music at all, they were soundtracks for a generation of gaming. If you look at most modern game developments, the backbone of C64 musicians are still influencing computer gaming soundtracks today. In years to come may people listen to this collection and realise how memorable C64 music really is. C64 History (now condensed :) ----------------------------- I first got a Commodore Plus/4 in 1985 and spent many a day using one. However I really wanted a C64 and realised my dream in 1987. Imagine my shock when I heard Rob Hubbard's 'Thalamusik' (the Sanxion Loading theme) for the first time. It blew me away, and is still my favourite C64 tune ever written. In September 1988, my first C64 game tips (for Stormbringer) were published in Zzap! 64. From then until late 1991 I contributed a stack of tips, listings and POKEs to Zzap! 64, sometimes under my nickname of "Waz". Whilst contributing, Robin Hogg who worked there also got me into writing music hacks for games. Later, I started to contribute numerous tips and listings to Commodore Format (1991-1996). In 1991, I also formed my 'group' Zaw Productions (even though it's mostly me) for mainly writing C64 music. I also helped Peter de Bie a fair bit with his ambitious 'Screens' collection, and in many ways this was a precursor to what HVSC is now. I've also had some music of mine in games, and I still am writing C64 music as well as writing two regular articles for 'Commodore Zone' magazine and tracking down ex-Zzap! 64 reviewers for old times. I'm also contributing to the last ever issue of Zzap! 64 along with being a member of the C64 demo group Padua. Zaw Towers on the WWW: http://home.freeuk.net/wazzaw/ Padua (style is innate): http://www.padua.org/ ******************************* * Inge H.P. ("448" 1985-1991) * * - NORWAY * ******************************* Contributions ------------- Inge has ripped several SIDs and represents the Amiga community quite well. As he notes below he plans to fixe a few SIDs so that they work on _both_ PlaySID and SIDPlay (actually, he has already fixed a few). Inge also holds the 'coveted' SID Hunt MVP award which was awarded to the ripper who ripped the most SIDs from Lala's SID Hunt list. I should note that Inge almost wasn't accepted into the HVSC team due to his Hubbard comment below... ;) Comments -------- I was feeling most honoured when asked to be a part of this team. Since I got my C64 back in 1984, I have always felt a certain dragging towards the wonderful music of the SID. As I use both Amiga and PC nowadays, I feel there is next to none of the modern tracker-tunes that have that little extra like SIDmusic has. C64 History ----------- When some friends of mine got their C64's in 1983, I didn't stop bugging my parents until I got one myself. That was in spring 1984. As so many others, I started my C64-life by playing games. My first game was Terminal Software's "Super Skramble", which also my parents enjoyed. Some times later, Turbo Tape appeared at some friends, and soon we had loads of tapes with games. Later I had to buy a disk drive. I tried to learn basic during my first years, and in the end, I had made several Font-editors and the likes. In 1986, I started to learn assembly, and in 1987 I made lots of scrollers and crappy demos (You know, "demos" which consisted of a picture and a scrolltext, and some music). In August 1990 I bought an Amiga 500. Strangely enough, the years 1990-91 was my most productive years on the C64. ...until my old C64 broke down. I got it fixed late in 1992, but soon it broke down again. In 1994 I bought an A1200 which I am still using. In 1995 I bought another C64, and revived some of my C64 skills. I made a parallel cable, and suddenly I could transfer files back and forth between by C64 and Amiga. ...until I short- circuited the cable (and also my C64) in October 1996. Since then, I have done all my ripping in an emulator on Amiga. I have plans for repairing my C64, so I can convert the music that won't run properly in the emulator. The first real musical experience I had was when I heard the loader tune to Daley Thompson's Decathlon (still one of my favourites). Later, the Rambo Loader tune really made my jaw drop down on my chest. From that moment, I have been devoted to Martin Galway. Rob Hubbard has never really made it past that level in my consciousness. That does not mean that I don't like other composers too ;-) ***************************************************** * Laust Brock-Nannestad - DENMARK * ***************************************************** Contributions ------------- Laust's main contributions has been with the STIL. He created the HTML STIL pages, added many new entries, and then later created a STIL-syntax-checker. In addition to helping with the STIL, Laust has identified many incorrect credits and other problems with in HVSC and as of Update #16, is now the new STIL Administrator. Comments -------- It will come as no surprise when I say that SID music takes up a large amount of my time. In fact, a day rarely goes by without Sidplay playing in the background while I work. Ever since I made my first tape recording of SID tunes, years ago, I've been comforted and amazed by the diversity of the tunes and the SID chip in general. Especially when you consider the SID's complexity compared to the sound capabilities of other 8-bit systems in the eighties. C64 History ----------- After a brief period with access to a ZX81-clone and a CP/M machine, I finally got the thing I wanted: A C64. Some of my first games were Phantoms of the Asteroid and Commando and even back then I knew there was something special about the music in those games - in fact I bought specific games (such as the not too exciting W.A.R) just because it had music by Rob Hubbard. Now how's that for dedication? :-). As the C64 market dwindled, so did my interest in the C64. I kept my C64 on my desk, but used it less and less. Then one day I bought a shareware CD that had Sidplay v1.10 on it. I was ecstatic! - suddenly having the sound of the C64 combined with the convenience (and storage capability) of the PC. I didn't have any tunes but the four built-in ones, but it was enough to keep me going until I found a 500kb pack of assorted tunes on another CD. Soon after that, I got Internet access, which meant the newest Sidplay and the NemeSIDs collection. However, the NemeSIDs collection was soon replaced with the High Voltage Sid Collection, due to its many advantages. Then after HVSC v2.0 was released I got in touch with LaLa and started submitting STIL entries. Following that, the HTML version of the STIL was born. *********************************** * Peter Sandén (Panda/Defiers) * * - SWEDEN * *********************************** Contributions ------------- Peter's long been a regular contributor to HVSC, whether it be rips, STIL info or just general feedback to make the collection better. In addition, he has reported many a bug (and fixed them at the same time) along with quality credit fixes. His work was rewarded with HVSC Team membership as of Update #20. Now maintains the C64 composers gallery page at http://composers.c64.org/ Comments -------- I'd just want to thank all the great C-64 composers for all the lovely songs they made... I've spend countless hours listening to SIDs. C64 History ----------- I got my first C-64 in 1983. I was a member of several unknown groups before I became a member of The Defiers in 1988. Between 1987 and 1991 I was mostly interested in the music, so I ripped all songs that crossed my computer. I had around 10 disks with ripped music at that time. I sold the C-64 (A sad day. I finished my last C-64 demo 2 minutes before they took my computer.) When I got my first C-64 emulator on the Amiga, I started to rip again, and I was one of the contributors for the NemeSIDs Collection. Now I use my PC for ripping using CCS64. Recently I bought a HardSID, which gives me the real C-64 sound again! If you want to see my old crappy demos, take a look at: http://hem1.passagen.se/tralala/index.htm *************************************************** * Michal Hoffmann (Smalltown Boy/MultiStyle Labs) * * - POLAND * *************************************************** Contributions ------------- Michal contributed to the HVSC effort for some time, whether it be rips from various C64 demos, many correct STIL entries and indeed other useful information along the way. He also is in touch with the current Polish C64 scene providing an important link between the composers and HVSC, and his hard work was rewarded with membership of the HVSC Team in September 2002. He is still an active C64 composer as well. Comments -------- Just thanks to all those freaks writing emulators of old 8- and 16-bit systems for PC. Without them, my life would most probably be a little blank and boring. Go back to the 80's y'all!... C64 History ----------- I got my C64 in 1988, sold it in 1992. What interested me the most in it was games and music, but I had been too young and unexperienced to compose my own songs. However, after I had sold my breadbox, I decided to become a musician - note that the C64 music was the main inspiration for that - and I did so. I discovered the C64 again thanks to emulators in 1999. Since then, I've been fulfiilling my childhood dreams by making sidmusic and taking part in C64 scene life. ********************************************** * Simon White - ENGLAND * ********************************************** Contributions ------------- Back in 2000, Simon first started realising his dream of making a more cycle accurate SID emulator that could facilitiate more accurate and more C64 friendly playback of SID tunes. Through development of the libsidplay2 library used in most new SID emulators, he also fixed many a bad rip for HVSC as well as helped invent the PSIDv2NG and RSID file formats in use by HVSC today. He shadowed the HVSC Team for some time and helped them immensely with PSIDv2NG conversion, and his hard work was rewarded with full membership of the Team in September 2002. ************************************************* * Stephan Schmid - GERMANY * ************************************************* Contributions ------------- Stephan had ripped many tunes and contributed information to the HVSC effort for the last two years plus. His hard work and dedication in ensuring that demo tunes were ripped correctly along with providing quality STIL entries not only helped his efforts with his Demodungeon website, but improved HVSC's quality also, and was rewarded with membership of the HVSC Team in September 2002. He still maintains the Demodungeon site which is a useful place to go if you wish to find which SID tunes appeared in which demo. Comments -------- I'm actually one of the few HVSC members that spends more time in the /VARIOUS directory than with the major composers - and I mean *much* more! Not that I dislike the classic game-tunes, not at all. My favourite game- composer is Jeroen Tel - but for the same reason why I listen to so much of the /VARIOUS composers: They managed to push the soundcapabilities of the SID to - and sometimes seemingly over its limits while still main- taining a high level of musical quality paired with skillful compositions. C64 History ----------- My first real memories to SID music are the MASH demo with Hubbard's Sanxion and the Wanderer crackintro with Fred Gray's Hysteria, #3 playing. I remember I could listen to these tunes virtually for hours. Then I got into demos, fascinated by how they expanded the limits of the C64. At about the same time I discovered the HVSC and found fun in locating all the demotunes in the collection, however quite a few of them I couldn’t find. So I requested *tons* of tunes at LaLa's Big SID Hunt before Warren Pilkington and Peter Sandén taught me how to rip. The Demodungeon (over 200 demos with lots of screenshots, ratings, comments and all the sidtunes that appeared in the demos): -> www.demodungeon.com - for your daily dose of demos! ############### Retired Members ############### ************************************************************ * Darren, Bod/Talent - ENGLAND * ************************************************************ Contributions ------------- Providing several C64 demos/games on his C64 CD which allowed us to fill in the proper credits for several tunes. Renaming the NemeSIDs collection by hand so that it could be used with SIDPlay (shortly after, a tool emerged that could do this automatically :). Provided around 50-100 SIDs for the collection. Comments -------- Being involved in some way with this SID collection means a lot to me. The 64 was part of me for a long time and listening to some of these tunes bring back so many happy and fond memories of good times and friendship that I have known through the C64 Scene since I started. C64 History ----------- I got my c64 back in 1986 and joined Hotline in 1987. Supplying, trading and cracking. In 1990 me and XXX left Hotline and started our own group Talent, later the same year we joined up with our Danish Friends in Ikari to form the best co-op that ever lived. :) Ikari & Talent. ****************************************************** * Michael Schwendt - GERMANY * ****************************************************** Contributions ------------- The author of Sidplay and the libsidplay Library, without which the collection wouldn't probably be here. As well as that, he: Added a bunch of great tune fixes. Helped find repeats in the collection. Helped with the proper identification of SID tunes. Added to and helped correct the musician list. Added several ideas to help with the collection. Answered several questions about SIDPlay and SIDs in general. Added several new tunes to the collection, and indeed wrote the current source to the update tool. Comments -------- I simply adore the SID (the MOS-6581), its sound capabilities and especially the quality of the SID tunes. Imagine, those SIDs consist only out of three voices (neglecting the virtual fourth channel for samples). In comparison, most of the existing MODules from Amiga and PC, which use several hundred kilobytes of high-quality samples, sound like crap ! Disgusting, isn't ? Btw, I think the High Voltage SIDtune Collection will be the new standard on the Net. *************************************************** * Wilfred Bos - NETHERLANDS * *************************************************** Contributions ------------- Has ripped several tunes and found SIDs from other collections that weren't part of HVSC. Provided a few corrected rips. Helped find some SID tune credits. Found several errors in HVSC. Comments -------- What an incredible sound chip! If you hear all the music in this collection, then you know that most music composers are real artists. They got the best out of the SID chip. They made special effects that even today's normal synthesizers can't make. There were a lot of moments that I turned on my C64 only for having some nice background music. Happily there is now Sidplay... C64 History ----------- I got my first C64 in 1985. In 1987 I started with 3 other friends the group Channel Four. My nickname was Fred. I made a lot of demos for this group. In the beginning of 1989 a started making my own music routine. Unfortunately it wasn't finished and I lost it. I sold my C64 with my whole demo collection. A few years later I had many regrets that I sold all the software with it. I bought a C64 again when I heard Sidplay 1.04 for DOS. When I play the old C64 music on my PC, a lot of memories come back... Check out my homepage at: http://www.worldonline.nl/~wbos ************************************************** * Jan Krolzig - GERMANY * ************************************************** Contributions ------------- Jan provides HVSC with many a quality rip including many a requested tune from the SID Hunt. He also unearthed the whole truth about many of the Magic Disk and Game On tunes by Thomas Detert as well as providing useful credit and STIL information, and also has fixed many tunes to be PlaySID compatible . Comments -------- After seeing a C64 first time, I fell in love with it. "Katakis" was running and it was not only the perfect program or the astonishing graphics, which made me shout for joy. No, it was the great tunes, including nice sound and great compositions, which impressed me. A new period of time started for me and during the following years SID music became an important part of my life. There is no doubt that that will never change.