There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 46.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 639 new SIDs, 168 fixed/better rips, 181 SID credit fixes, 7 SID model/clock infos, 12 tunes identified and 26 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

This episode of Commoflage is all about game music. You can listen to: Frank Endler - Task III, Rune-Bertil’s - Delta, Robert Mansfield - Mission AD, Hazel - Nemesis The Warlock, LMan & Sunflower - Follow Me, Reyn Ouwehand - Thanatos, Fby - The Last Ninja, Martin Galway - Wizball subtune 7, Rob Hubbard - Auf Wiedersehen, Monty, Ron & His 1541 - Push My Button, daXX - Commando, Mitch van Hayden - Blue Violins and Jamie Maxwell – The Last Ninja.

In this BitJam the music from X-2014: Alpha Bitch, Andropolis, Archangel, Arctic Circles, Bitter Swede, Break the Cycle, Channels, Chronicles, Edge of Disgrace, Eskimonika, Flowerguy's Pool Party, Gaijin, Gloria, Goldie, Good Enough, Hexadecimal, Legoman, Listen and Learn, Live Forever, Lois Lane, Mekanix, Melonade, Metamorphosis, Moroder, Revolved, Scarlet, Shorty, Smashing, Valentine and Videogamer. Total playing time: 1:11:05.

Mr. Pacman is a 8-bit hero gangsta rock band from Denver, USA. Mr. Pacman performance with retro-futuristic outfits, and their Commodore 64 inspired electronic music with a rock attitude. Mr. Pacman uses a SidStation, controlled by his keytar, and Silver Ghost uses a Commodore SX-64 as a bass synthesizer.

GeekTunes is a music player for Andriod. You can use the player to play the following music files: Amiga MOD files included .IT .XM and .S3M, C64 SID files and MP3 files. The recent changes are: Support for Internet radio streaming. A new tool to mark tunes that you like so that you can email yourself a list of favourite tunes from the radio stream.

Doomed Planet is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by Richard.

A new karaoke game made by Björn Odendahl, Thomas Koncina, Ass it, Brian, dalezy, Harmony Productions, Hein, Hithouse, Lyon, ne7, Static and Cadaver is now available. The SIDs are: Adeste Fideles, Alle Jahre Wieder, Greensleeves, Helle Lieder, Ihr Kinderlein, IK+, Jingle Bells, Kling Glöckchen, Laßt Uns Froh, Leise rieselt, O christmas tree, The Jesus Band, Twinkle Twinkle and X-MAS Music.

Beep is a documentary film and book of video game music and sound. This project is a kickstarter project and it will start on October 1st. The finished documentary is planned for March 2016. A few examples of people in the documentary are: Allister Brimble, Chris Huelsbeck, Anders Carlsson, Mike Clarke, Tim Wright, Martin Galway and many more.

In this BitJam the Wackee SID Selekta. You can listen to the following music: Jammer - Spirals, _V_ - Phat Beats, celticdesign - SID Nation, Flex - Luminator, Linus - Grandma was a Druglord, Drax - Delusional, Conrad - Intrinsic V2, Wiklund - Euro Trash, MCH - Attitude #14, Wackee - For Those About To Acid (edit), _V_ - Red Sector Inc Circa 1994, Wackee - Oh My God What Have I Done, Zabutom - Storm, Linde - Dbwud, Xiny6581 - Substral Hyperwaves III (original mix), Devilock - Scale of Recreation, Flex - Vandalized Paradize, Scarzix - Starhiker (Director's cut), Hein Holt - Game Player, _V_ - Win a Cookie, Psycho8580 - Little Trip to Nowhere and Jammer - Spirals (reprise). Total playing time: 45:16.

You can now compete in the Tape loader tune competition 2014. The aim of the music competition is simply to compose a tune which would be suitable to listen to when loading a game from tape or disk. The rules fort his competition: No covers or remixes, maximum playing time is 2 minutes and you can send in a maximum of three tunes. Visit the TND web page for all the details.

Galaxy is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by Fredrik.

Hermit and Yogibear released a new SID for the Commodore C64. Yogibear made the music on his PC and Hermit converted the music to the Commodore C64. Graphical artist JSL made the picture.

The YouTube video of The Tree Angel 3SID.

In this BitJam the collection of the Amiga emo group Desire. You can listen to the following music: Estupendo, Soda Club, tu$$u10.special, Count Floyd!, Of digital gardens, Ka ga goo, Hurry upper, Carbodynamix!, Pom-pom-pom, Space.2k2, White line fever, Susified, Fanfare for the common, Pandamonium, No sense of time, Out of space, Slide aside, Dadoob, Funky fresh and Rust and stardust. Total playing time: 55:14.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 45.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 749 new SIDs, 1479 fixed/better rips, 727 SID credit fixes, 323 SID model/clock infos, 19 tunes identified and 73 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Richard Atkinson has made a video about the Commodore SID chip. In the video he explains all the features from the SID chip. He uses a PC with an HardSID, a Behringer BCR2000 controller and a Yamaha V50 keyboard. The system is Richard Atkinson hat ein Video über den Commodore SID Chip gemacht. Im Video erklärt er alle Eigenschaften von der SID Chip. Er verwendet einen PC mit einem HardSID, einen Behringer BCR2000 Controller und einen Yamaha V50 Tastatur. Das System wird mit Speziale Software kontrolliert.controlled with custom software.

Exploring the SID 6581

Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#61). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

The French and British music combo Paula Powered is making music with the help of a Amiga 1200. They make Low-Fi digital punk with the help of the Octamed Soundstudio tracker. You can listen to the song Vivienne Westwood from the album Live at home on YouTube.

Cockman4 is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by Robric.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13644 MUS, 4043 STR and 4737 WDS files.

The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. At the moment there are 391 files available in the database.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13552 MUS, 4038 STR and 4702 WDS files.

Yerzmyey released a new album called Rave is illegal! All the music has been made on an AMIGA 500 (4 channels) with the use of OctaMED 4.0. Track list: Give it, Goddamn business, Have you ever loved?, I have come and It’s gonna take all night. Vocals: MusicRadar and Mandy Edge.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Shadow of the Beast - Underwater Level, Battle Squadron (Peace For My 64), Apidya (High speed mix), Infestation (Kal Solar Remix), Nuke's Groovy, Xenon - The Real ExaBlast (Remastered), Giana Sisters Intro Remix, Crystal Hammer (Mulperi Remix), Yo! Joe! (Level One), Audiophobe, Arcane, A Prehistoric Tale, Elvira Frozen Earth (melancholy "cold" tribute), Pump That Pussy Remix, Desert Dreams (Hidden part), Jim Power Level 1 and Projectyle - Vectors.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13532 MUS, 4026 STR and 4689 WDS files.

The French and British music combo Paula Powered is making music with the Amiga 1200. They make Low-Fi digital punk with the help of the Octamed Soundstudio tracker. You can listen to the music on YouTube.

Lunchbeat is a simple groove-machine with 8 step sequencer and four 1bit sounds. With this device with an Atmel Atmega328p microprocessor (16 MHz) you can make your own Commodore SID or Atari retro music. The functions are: Start/Stop, Setup, Edit, Sound Buttons and Mod Pots to tweak sound parameters in real time.

In this BitJam the collection of Machinae Spupremacy. You can listen to the following music: Arcade, Bouff, Cryosleep, Fanvacoolt, Gianna Sisters, Hero, Killer Instict, Kings of the Scene, Koala Squadron, March of the Undead 2, Multiball, Ninja, Player One, Retrospection, SIDology 1 - SID Evolution, Super Mission and Winterstorm. Total playing time: 1:10:22.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13481 MUS, 4019 STR and 4658 WDS files.

Igorski started a new project that is called WebSID. With a modern browser you can now play the SID on-line. This virtual Commodore 64 is equipped with twin double octave keyboards, but note that the upper one plays arpeggiated chords. This are the limitations of the original C64, which gave it that characteristic sound.

The latest music collection of World Music is now available. The SID's in this edition are: Alderaan's Atmosphere, Anesthesia, Autumn, Black & White 2, Butt Jumper 2 Intro, Hyper Viper Menu, Inna Amazing, Intro Song, Leviathan Remix, Mix POL, Molina, Ode to TLF, Pipe Pressure, Rise and Sine, Roughnight, Smashed Beats, SWO #18 (intro), SWO #21 (intro), Tranced Out and Under Arrest.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 44.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 825 new SIDs, 233 fixed/better rips, 910 SID credit fixes, 120 SID model/clock infos, 8 tunes identified and 67 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Seeing is Believing, Baal Title (Solar Mass Mix), Cannon Fodder (Amiga game intro) Reloaded, ball Illusions Remix 2012 remastered, Apidya, Scream Of The Earth, Amazing Fireworks and bris (Childhood memories).

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Jesus On E's - The Audio Remake, Battle Squadron (Syntax Error Stockholm Tribute), Harlequin - Coming To Chimerica, The Pawn (Twilight Remix), Turrican 2 - Freedom, Turrican 2 (Remix D3M0), Pat Strikes Back, Unit A F18 Interceptor Crack Tune, Shadow of the Beast III - On the run, Cybrenoid II - Epic RMX, Another World - Tribute Remix, Xenon 2 Megablast - Vintage Remix and The First Samurai - Echoes RMX.

C64TV made a SID quiz. He made a video with 236 audio samples from various Commodore 64 games. Your task is to try and guess all of the tunes. A few examples of the tunes are: Uridium, Skate or Die, Donald Duck's Playground, Paradroid, Kung Fu Master, Fighter Pilot and many more.

The music band Bedford Level Experiment made a song about retro computers. In the video you can see the classic computers such as the C64 (with Cynthcart) and the Commodore PET. The lyrics, music, guitars, bass and vocals: Robin. Drums and the Commodore 64: Rianna.

Debs & Errol released a new song about the Commodore C64. The song Commodore C64 is from the album CTRL + ALT + DUET. You can buy the song for 1 CAD or the whole album for 6 CAD. Debs & Errol is musical comedy duo from a Toronto, Canada and are preforming together since 2011.

In this BitJam podcast music from Jeroen Tel. You can listen to the following music: Cybernoid, A as Addiction, International Karate, Fanta in Space, Cybernoid II, Turrican II, Sanxion, Lazy Jones, ACE II, Turbo Outrun, Delta, Monty on the run, Arkanoid, Last Ninja, Plastic Pop, Unreal Superhero 3, Last Ninja 2, Commando, R-Type and Synth Sample. Total playing time: 1:30:19.

Boray made a music player for the Commodore VIC-20. If you have an SD2IEC card reader you can listen to about 60 minutes of digitized music. The audio is 4 bit 4kHz mono, so don't expect great sound quality. (~ old AM radio). You can read more about this player on Boray's web page.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Turrican II - Desert Rocks (metal version 1.1), Beyond The Ice Palace (metal version), Goldrunner (Maccie Pimp Me Up Remix), Aeromute (multi-platform-remix, Turrican II - Traps, Stardust Memories, Pirates - Retromix, Turrican - Freedom Titanic Remix, Logical Green, Apprentice Title Remix (Short Edit), Echoing remix, Turrican 2 - Level 1 remix, Turrican 2 - Traps (Turricano Dos - El Trapo), Elvira (The Frozen Earth), Bubble Bobble Title and Agony Medley.

Jürgen Wothke released the TinyJSid. This is an experimental JavaScript / HTML5 version of Tiny'R'Sid. You need a modern browser such as Chrome or Firefox to use this player. With the help of JavaScript and HTML5 the Commodore C64 is emulated , and plays an original *.sid file.

If you like Amiga tunes and Plus/4 demos, then you must listen to the Amiga Music Box. The demo contains two tunes by Spektro, that are converted from the Amiga to the Plus/4. Csabo made the software to play the tunes via the TED chip.

Jürgen Wothke release an update of the Tiny'R'Sid music player. With this player you can listen online to your favourite SID music. The SID emulation logic is based on the TinySid code by T. Hinrichs and R. Sinsch. The most recent version now has a Play list function.

Sauraen and Oikanys are working on the MIDIbox aSIDity project. This project will be the most powerful SID-based synthesizer in the world. At the moment the SIDFB boards are ready and work is started on the case. The number of control switches, LEDs and displays is enormous. You can follow the progress on the midi box forum.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Pushover (Main Titlescreen Loop), Stardust Memories Dancemix, Elysium, De Die Hards, Golden Axe (Remix), Sidepanther (Childhood memories remix), Doodlebug Remix 2010 v3.0 and Cannon Fodder.

sID JAm is a "Battle of the Bands" style Commodore 64 music player. You can listen to two randomly chosen SID's and decide which tune is the winner. The current High Voltage Sid Collection has 43116 song so you can listen to the music and judge for a long time.

In this BitJam podcast music from Jeroen Tel. You can listen to the following music: Dr. Future feat. Aki Jaervinen - Cybernoid, Xenox - Closing In, Eiz - Hawkeye, Awesome-A - Battle Valley Dark Rises, CZ-Tunes - Intro, Amok - Alternative Fuel, Mitch Van Hayden - Rubicon (Elemental Mix), SunSpire - Agony Medley (Level 3 - Loading Sea - Level 2), Xenox - Invest Intro and Eiz - Supremacy. Total playing time: 44:56.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 12511 MUS, 3707 STR and 4480 WDS files.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 43. 856 SIDs in the collection. In this update 747 new SIDs, 315 fixed/better rips, 629 SID credit fixes, 750 SID model/clock infos, 14 tunes identified and 42 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#59). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files. Changes in this version: For binary searches, you will now be notified when there are multiple matches found for the same hit percentage. Also you will now be notified when the match that is found might not be reliable.

Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux. XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael Schwendt. Changes in this version: Libsidplayfp 1.0.2 with resid 1.0 emulation. Fix for the mileage and usage timing calculation and preliminary resid-fp emulation added.