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Tiny'R'Sid | 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.

MIDIbox aSIDity | 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.

AmigaRemix | 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 | 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.

BitJam #174 - Jeroen Tel | 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.

CGSC v1.24 | 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.

HVSC #59 | 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.

SID Known v1.06 | 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.

XSidplay2 - v2.1.4 | 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.

Flummi's World Music | Flummi's World Music is a music demo from Matthias and Sebastian from the group The Impirium Arts. In the menu you can choose the music from the game Fliummi's World: Intro, Title, End, Loading, Hi-Score, Get Ready, Game over and Ingame + Effects.

Infernal Cycle - C64 | Infernal Cycle is a new music program for the Commodore C64. The program is made by LDX#40. This program is a synthesizer noise generator and can be controlled with a joystick. LDX#40 used this program at Bended Realities Festival in Offenbach.

SID Duzz' It v2.1.6 | SDI is a music tracker system for the Commodore 64 and is written by Geir Tjelta and Glenn Rune Gallefoss. The system has the following features: Sequencer, tracker and a sound editor. Load, save and dump menu. DOS commands. Vibrato, pulse, filter, arpeggio and tempo. A very comprehensive (English) manual is available.

Paula Agnus Denise | Paula Agnus Denise is a compilation of the best music from Amiga and CD32 video games. The album contains 19 re-mastered tracks, a few examples are: Hired Guns, Turrican 3, Alien Breed, Pinball Dreams, Battle Squadron, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Project-X and Brutal Deluxe. The album is available as download or CD.

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 330 files available in the database.

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.4 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: The property dialog (SID info) can now stay open. Folder / file refresh with F5. CTRL-A for all text search boxes. CTRL-H is now used for Author search. UNC paths are now handled correctly and other small improvements.

DefleMask | DefleMask is a Multi-System music tracker for producing music for many sound chips and old school systems. The system uses real-time emulation, it has an FM instruments editor, Envelopes editor and a Wavetable instruments editor. DefleMask can produce files for SEGA, Nintendo, NEC PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16 and the Commodore 64.

AmigaAMP 3.5 - AmigaOS 4 | Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: TuneNet Plugin support. AmigaAmp now uses faad.library instead of the built in AAC decoder. And the problem with automatic opening of the playlist is now solved.

C64.sk Cover Compo #2 | You can now see the names of the authors of the SID's from the C64.sk Cover Compo #2. For all the SID's you can now download the original files and complete credits.

Retro Asylum Podcast: Amiga games | The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about games for the Amiga. Swanny tells about music from Amiga games, including music from Dave Lowe, Jason Page, Barry Leitch, Jolyon Myers and others.

Retro Asylum Podcast: Oi Ay, SID Want's a Word! | The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about the Commodore C64 SID chip. Matt digs deeper into the sounds of the SID chip to give you tunes you might not have heard before along with some chat about the chip itself including some technical details.

Samar Music Disc | This year Samar celebrates its 20th anniversary and they want to issue a music disc. And everybody can contribute to the music disc. The rules: No limitation in number of musics per musician. Music at: $1000 - $3000, 4x play tunes also accepted. No digi tunes.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: FlashBack (Options Remix, Monday (G3D Extended Remix), Onslaught (daXX Remix), GODS (ChillStep), Big Run (daXX Remix), Zillion-2 (Mankind's hope will rise again), Monday (Vroom crack intro), Ghouls'n'Ghosts (Your Hometown Burns In Hell), Test Drive II Remix, Odyssey Part I and Echoing (Steissbein Mix).

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.3 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Emulation improvements. COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer support (MUS file, including stereo files). Improved speed of identifying players. STIL window state is now preserved. Added search by this author/publisher/group feature. Added triple click support on the search box to select all text. Second SID device settings for HardSID 4U and HardSID Quattro devices are now stored correctly.

Retro Asylum Podcast: Top ten Commodore 64 games | The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about games for the Commodore C64. Foggy tells about his personal top 10 of C64 games from the year 1983.

welle: erdball - Computerklang | You can now watch the official video of welle: erdball - Computerklang. In the video you will see lots of Commodore equipment: the Commodore CBM 8032, a C128 motherboard with a very special text, the C2N Datassette, the 1541 and 8250 disk drive and the Commodore 64.

Top 50 - Crack Intro Music Competition 2013 | You can listen to the top 50 songs from the Crack Intro Music Competition 2013. The rules of this competition were: Maximum playtime 1:00 min and a maximum size: $1000 bytes. The Top 5: Retrospectful (DRAX), Introduction to Crack (DRAX), 3 Y-Lax-It (celticdesign), Don't Fuck With Stevie Wonder (Jammer) and Delusional (DRAX).

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: 3D Galax 2013, Turrican Traps, Platoon (E/Rock 2013), Jumping Jackson, Hulk Hogan Hymne - Real American, Turrican 2 Title, RSI Megademo - Loader, Turrican title, Stormlord ingame, RSI Megademo, GODS Into the wonderfull, Stormlord (intro) and Battle Squadron ingame.

BitJam #166 | In this BitJam podcast music from the HVSC. You can listen to the following music: Ghosts ’n Goblins, The Great Giana Sisters, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Crazy Comets, Arkanoid, Knucklebusters, Mutants, Last Ninja 2, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Last Ninja 3, Cybernoid, Monty On The Run, Delta, Cybernoid II, International Karate, Commando, Sanxion, The Last Ninja and Wizball. Total playing time: 1:45:37.

Retro Asylum Podcast: Early Video Game Advertising | The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about the advertising of the game computers in de eighties. Foggy takes us back to the age of the Atari VCS, Mattel Intelvision Commodore VIC-20 etc.

C64.sk Cover Compo #2 | The web page C64.sk organises another SID cover competition. Your SID must be based on exciting music you can hear on the radio, or can buy in a shop. The SID will be available on the web page, but it will be anonymous. Later the voting will start.

HVSC #58 | There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 43.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 906 new SIDs, 185 fixed/better rips, 971 SID credit fixes, 111 SID model/clock infos, 27 tunes identified and 47 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

AmigaRemix | You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Hero Quest, Turrican I Intro 2nd Try, RSI Megademo - Ba1, Boot Up, Pinball Dreams, B.A.T II - The Koshan Conspiracy, Turrican II - The Final Challenge, Turrican II Freedom, The Four Seasons Remix, Moby's Sea of Love remix, The Lost Patrol and Turrican II Intro 2nd Try.

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