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Mix Box #1 - C64 | Richard/T.N.D released Mix Box #1. An old-school music selector demo, inspired by the Music Pot Pourri demos and the Apex Music demos.

Commodore Plus/4 Game Music Collection 1984-2016 | Skoro made a music collection of Commodore Plus/4 music. A few examples are: Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Daley Thompson's Star Events, Hollywood Poker, Icicle Works, Kazik And The Ghosts, Leaper, Skyhawk, Terra Nova, Treasure Island, Winter Events, Adventures In Time, Get It, Majesty Of Sprites, Pac-Pac, Sgt. Helmet Zero and Xplode Man.

TND Goat Tracker v2 music | The Richard Bayliss archive of TND Goat Tracker v2 music is now available. If you want to start making music on the Commodore C64 you can use this archive to experiment with.

DUBCRT | DUBCRT is a music album, an interactive light synthesizer and a remix gadget released as a Commodore 64 cartridge. DUBCRT features: Eight songs, visualisation and a secret remix module. The cartridge is made by: Goto80 (audio), 4-mat (code), iLKke (graphics) and Ray Manta (concept).

FLOD | FLOD is a JavaScript/AS3 module written by Christian Corti. With this module it is possible to play back music from the Amiga in a modern browser. FLOD is also used in all the Flashtro intros. Version 6.0 is now available.

20 Years HVSC | The High Voltage SID Collection is now 20 years! For this occasion a special music collection has been compiled.

There is also an update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more than 48,500 SIDs in the collection. In this update 1022 new SIDs, 811 fixed/better rips, 791 SID credit fixes, 143 SID model/clock info's, 60 tunes identified and 74 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Assassin Special Edition - Title, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 - Title, Agony - Loading Mountain (Breathless RMX), Turrican 2 - The Greath Bath, Pinball Dreams - Beatbox Theme (daXX Remix), Human Target (daXX Remix), Monday (Maf remake) and Another World Ending (Another Rebelcitizen Ending Remix).

CGSC v1.33 | 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 15311 MUS, 4208 STR and 5224 WDS files.

AmiModRadio | AmiModRadio is a system that makes it possible to play all 20,000+ mods on Aminet. AmiModRadio is composed essentially of four parts: A small FTP client (download), a XAD client (unarchive), a ARexx program and a MUI interface to control the various parts of AmiModRadio. In this version a new ratings system is added.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Lotus III Intro, Lemmings 1, Vivamin-E, 3D Demo (1 & 2), Super Stardust, Alien Breed, Hero Quest - Gloom, D-Mob Music Disc 3, Over The Net, WorldCup 90, Hero Quest, Turrican 2, Wrath Of The Demon, Turrican, Lupo Alberto, Enigma, Ultima VI, Fantasy World Dizzy, Risky Woods and Lotus 3.

CGSC v1.32 | 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 15130 MUS, 4211 STR and 5303 WDS files.

Tron Digidrum | Bart van den Akker made a YouTube video about the Tron Digidrum. The Tron Digidrum is a sound sampler and drum machine module from 1985. The Digidrum audio is completely unedited.

HVTC | 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 491 files available in the database.

Club Revision - SID | Winks of Fairlight made the C64 SID Club Revision. This SID reached the first place at the Revision 2016 music competition. The audio is recorded with the VICE Emulator with a 8580R5 reSID-fp.

TAB64 | Commodore1971 is working on a C64 guitar tablature book. He has been busy translating the SID's from Last Ninja and Flimbos Quest to guitar. The features are: Printed paperback or digital Download. 50 pages in full colour. 10 well known SIDs including info and pictures.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Captain Planet Ma Ti (Synthwave Mix), Great Courts 2 (You Can Win), Mantronix & Tip's Jazzy Nork - Live Jazz Club Cover, Strider Vs Thunderblade, Pinball Prelude Medley, Stardust Warp Sequence 2, Hybris [2016 Remix], Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 Intro, Fire & Ice Temple Theme (daXX Remix), Wrath Of The Demon Title (2016 Wremix), Arabian Nights (daXX Remix) and Return of the Jedi - Hard Wars.

SID Adventures | GeoAnas started a series about the famous SID chip in the Commodore C64. The most recent articles are interviews with: Markus (c0zmo), Jason Page, Cris Ekstrand (Xiny6581), Sascha Zeidler (Linus) and Kamil Wolnikowski (Jammer).

On the High Seas - C64 | On the High Seas is new SID-music for the Commodore C64 computer. The music is made by Saul Cross.

jsSID v0.9.1 | Hermit has developed an JavaScript emulator and player. The features are: Small size (14kbyte), 6581 and 8580 models are supported, CPU emulation is cycle-based, Vsync- and CIA-timed single- and multispeed tunes are supported and Illegal opcodes are supported by the CPU emulation.

CGSC v1.31 | 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 14522 MUS, 4139 STR and 5066 WDS files.

8 Bit Weapon: Disassembly Language | The music duo 8 Bit Weapon released a new album with SID music. The theme of the album is ambient music for de-programming. Tracks: Phase I Lexical Analysis (13:37), Phase II Debugger (13:08), Phase III Refactoring (20:16) and Phase IV Release (22:44).

Commodore Plus/4 music | Skoro of the Assassin Crew converted Music (45 songs) from the Commodore 64 to the Commodore Plus/4. He used the normal and the wave converter developed by TLC of Coroners. The SID card is from The Solder of Synergy.

HVSC #64 | There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 47,500 SIDs in the collection. In this update 672 new SIDs, 132 fixed/better rips, 812 SID credit fixes, 133 SID model/clock info's, 14 tunes identified and 34 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

SID Known v1.11 | Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#64). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files.

Back in Time Symphonic Collection | Chris Abbott and Kenneth Mutka started an crowd funding project to make an Symphonic Collection of Commodore C64 music with a real symphonic orchestra. On the first CD you will find: Forbidden Forest, Grouting, Kentilla, Black Lamp, Times of Lore, Master of Magic, Barbarian II, Nemesis the Warlock, Ghouls and Ghosts, Dragon's Lair II, Spellbound, Firelord and Beyond the Forbidden Forest.

PlayEm64 V1.2 - C64 | PlayEm64 is a tool that makes it possible to play .SID files on your Commodore C64. Changes in this version: Optimisation of the RAM usage. Speed-control for multi-speed music. Improvement for Shuffle, Directory handling and many other small improvements.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. The following Amiga music is added to the web page: Dune 2 (Ingame ambient mix), Stardust Memories - daXX Remix, Apidya - The Pond (Save The Last Dance), Turrican 2 - The Wall, Captain Planet Ma Ti, Super Stardust - Special Mission 1, Apprentice (Inside Domus), Necronom (500mm Remix), Premiere - Fantasy, R-Type title, Shadow of the Beast 1 (NRJ Mix), Iron Lord - DUBSTEP MIX, Outrun - Magical Soundshower (Hip Hop Piano mix) and Xeqtion.

BitJam #202 - Insert Disk 2 Special | In this episode of BitJam the Swedish remix legend Martin Noriander Instant Remedy: You can listen to the following music: Woody's Wor.d, Penguin Palooza 3, Flimbo's quest, Battle Squadron, Bomb Mania, Lotus turbo challenge 2, RR2 ingame 2, Project-X, The Last Ninja, IK+, Magic Disk 64 (90's euromix), RR2 ingame 3 and Pinball Dreams Nightmare.

TED tunes | You can now listen to TED tunes right in your browser, with the help of a JavaScript emulator. This system is still in development, so things may break or be rough around the edges, but it's definitely a very promising start.

XSidplay2 - v2.1.7 | 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: Support for 3SID (libsidplayfp 1.8.1), better QT5 porting, improvements for initialization and a compilation for win32.

SID Anthology Vol. 1 | Chris Huelsbeck released the first volume of SID Anthology. On this album: Planet Of War, Shades, Holiday Morning, Holiday Night, One More Night, Dance At Night, Soldier (1 & 2), Madness, Madness High Score Screen and The Baby Of Can Guru (1, 2 & 3).

SidTracker64 - iPad | SidTracker64 is a chip tune tool for the iPad that emulates the SID from the Commodore 64. The features are: Midi keyboard. Export your music to .sid or .prg files (Dropbox / e-mail). Fully emulated SID 8580 R5 chip. 3 Voices, 8 waveforms, 3 volume envelopes, 32 instruments and vibrato controls. Wavetable & Filter editing and much more.

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