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Panic Analogue Music | You can now listen to the Music from the game Panic Analogue. Panic Analogue is fast game for the Commodore C64, for one or two players, and it uses paddles. The music from the game is made by Redcrab, and the titles are: Panic Analogue main theme, Cave Music, Tomb Music, Happy Times, Pepwalk, Tribute and Game over.

BitJam #144 | The title of the BitJam podcats number 144 is Mitch and Dane. In this BitJam the following music: Dazzler, Listen And Learn, Archangel, Escape From Reality, Smashing, Morphing, Break The Cycle, Melissa D, Mashiare, Bondage II Intro, Dirty Pair, Lois Lane, The End, Crush, Live Forever, Bus, In Your Bed, Vertigo and Orbital. Playtime: 45:18min.

BitJam #142 | The title of the BitJam podcats number 142 is Womanizer. In this BitJam the following Amiga music: Mitch and Dane - Gloria, Fanta - Madalena, Gasman - Losing Victoria, 4-mat - Rose, Beek - Oh Delia, Vinnie - Bangin' Cindy, Maestro - Black Carol, Ciccilleju - Martina, Brainbug - Vanja, Nightbeat - Miriel, Drax - Caroline, Christian Stenzel - Joanna's Flashback, Carebear - Louis Lane, Rymdlego - Yuki Satellites, Cdnalsi - Song for Tina and Machinae Supremacy - The Great Gianna Sisters. Playtime: 47:28 minutes.

SID Happens | Hawkeye/Maelstroem made a music video. He uses 8 Commodore C64 8580 SID chips. With this 8 SID's and a MIDIbox he constructed a DIY SID synthesizer. The sound in the video is made with the 8 SID chips, a machine-drum and a virtual piano. Everything is sequenced and mixed live.

Amiga Music Preservation | Last month there was a big update of the Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) web page. AMP wants to be the most comprehensive, complete and precise database about Amiga music. At the moment there are 81462 MODs, 14768 XMs, 4760 S3Ms, 3447 Its and 3634 MEDs.

C64 Take-away podcast #049 | Episode 049 is now available for download. In this podcast you can hear the following music: Rob Rubbard - The Last V8, David Filskov - Firelord, Ziphoid: Back in the saddle, Chris Abbott and Rob Hubbard - Comets 97, Necropolo - Zak, Necropolo - BC Bill, Peter Clarke - Monty on the Run, LMan and Sunflower - Follow me and DJ Skitz - MegaSweet. There is also news about: Markus Behlau, The new Commodore 64, Julian Rignall, C64 remixing in 2010 infographic, Chipophone, LCP 2011 party, Back in Time CD, Remix64.com and HybridSID.

CheeseCutter 0.5.0 | CheeseCutter is a Music Tracker program developed by Abbadon of Fairlight. The JCH Tracker was used as an inspiration and it uses the reSID engine by Dag Lem. A few examples of the changes in this version are: Improvements to the Playback tracking system. Scroll Lock can toggle playback tracking on/off. It is now possible to switch between ReSID-FP filter presets using Ctrl-F8 and Shift-Ctrl-F8. Added a spartan mode which disables some editor features for working with highly modified players. It is now possible to swap the places of two instruments, which includes an update of the sequence data.

SID Symphony II | Digital Audio Concepts has released the SID Symphony II cartridge. With this cartridge you can add a second SID to your Commodore C64 without opening the C64. Features: SID register mapping from $DE00 to $DFE0. Access LED. Reset button. 12 V DC-to-DC converter for 6581 SID chip. The price of the SID Symphony II cartridge, without an SID chip, is $39.95.

Radio Paralax | Radio Paralax is an Internet radio station with original or remixed music from computer games. The music is from the demo scene, from the C64, Amiga, NES, SNES, Sega Megadrive, Playstation etc. On the Radio Paralax web page you can also find a forum (German / English), chat, play list, program guide and downloads.

BitJam #141 | The title of the BitJam podcats number 141 is Erection Day. In this BitJam the following Amiga music: Metal - Cock Cut, Reyn Ouwehand - Soft and Wet, Virgill - Sex 'n' Drugs, Moog feat. Makke - Basics of Love, Xerxes - Erotica, Falcon - Underwater Sexual Intercourse, Dominei - Pornographic, Orbiter - Get F*cked, Beezerk feat. Dawni - Feels So Good, JCO - Wir machen Sex und keine Popmusik (Party), Pinza - Varifom (Horn-y House Cut), Glxblt - F*ck on the Floor. Playtime: 51:21 minutes.

hYpnotiZe | Slimex of the group Sidrapers made a new SID for the Commodore C64. You can download the music from the Commodore Scene Database.

BitJam #140 | The title of the BitJam podcats number 140 is ArtCity Unknown Artist Compo. In this competition many tunes were connected to the correct composers. You can now listen to 16 of these tunes. Intensity: Are Am Eye Commodore Mix, Sweet Alien, Fly, Magic and Exemption. Lizardking: Art of Chrome, Compulsion to Obey, Tides of Dosk, World of Mages and Elimination. Moby: Mobyle, Groovy Thing and Livin' Insanity. Virgill: TBB Plasmacrap, High Density and Interference. Playtime: 58:42 minutes.

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.2 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Improvement of the performance of the folder tree view. Support for JSidDevice 1.2. You can download the new ACID 64 Player Pro from Wilfred's web page.

ACID 64 Player Pro v3.1 | Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Stereo SID (2SID) support for: HardSID 4U, HardSID Quattro, multiple HardSID ISA/PCI cards and JSidDevice v1.1. Emulation improvements. Improvements with the calculation of player speed and with SID search. And many more small improvements. You can download the new ACID 64 Player Pro from Wilfred's web page.

Mail Order Monsters | Mail Order Monsters is a three piece music and video performance group, celebrating the sound of the Commodore 64 computer. They use a range of (custom) hardware to produce the SID sound like multiple keyboards and percussion controllers, Midibox, Hardsid, Mssiah, and real Commodore 64 computers. In total they use 23 SID chips (6581) on stage. They will do a live show at the Artprize 2011 in Ah Nab Awen Park, Michigan, United States on 21, 23 and 30 September.

XSidplay2 - v2.1.1 | Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux. XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael Schwendt. This version is made with the QT4 development framework. The next versions will have multiple run-time sid library support and PSID v3 support.

BeebSID | Andy made a demonstration video about the BeebSID. The BeebSID is a project from Martin Barr and Tom Walker. They made a circuit board with a SID chip, that connects to the bus of a BBC Micro computer. With the BeebSID you can play SID music on a BBC Micro computer. You can also see a HcX floppy disk emulator that is used to load the SID data.

Press Play On Tape | Press Play On Tape performed at the Assembly 2011 party. You can watch a video where they do a tribute to TV-series. You can listen to music from Night Rider, Miami Vice, Ghost Busters, The A-Team, Dallas, Dempsey and Makepeace, Mac Gyver, Bravestar, Transformers, V, Dick Turpin and Airwolf.

BitJam #138 | The latest podcast of BitJam has as title 2:18. All tunes in the podcast are 2 minutes and 18 seconds long. Podcast #138 was made by Vincenzo, and a few examples of tunes are: D Fast - Macgyver, Dreamweaver - Shivers, Geir Tjelta - That's the Wave II, Uncle Tom - Stunnflight and Muffler - Free Power.

Also a interesting podcast is number 136. This is a tribute to the Immortal CD’s. A few examples of the tunes are: Barry Leitch - Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Chris Hülsbeck - Turrican 3, Per Almered - Obsession - Desert Run, Jon Hare and Richard Joseph - Cannon Fodder War and Timothy Coldstorage Wright - Agony 2007 (Astronaut mix).

SIDcog v1.0 | SIDcog is a project from Johannes Ahlebrand. He made a hardware simulation of the Commodore SID music chip inside a Propeller micro controller. Some of the features are: 31kHz sample rate. 16 bit resolution. Full filter and envelope support. All 4 waveform types and combined waveform. Ring modulation and oscillator synchronization. On the Youtube channel from Johannes you can see several demonstrations of the SIDcog.

Unreleased Pimps | Unreleased Pimps is a music collection from the Maniacs of Noise. The music is made by DRAX and the graphics and code were made by Clarence. The songs are: Plea Ease, Blue, Dreamy, Handle It, Indifference and Sloppy.

SID 6581 on a Papilio FPGA board | On this YouTube video you can see a Papilio FPGA board with a SID 6581 VHDL core (no filters) acting as a networked SID device. The program ACID 64 is used to send the SID data to a network device. Then a program from Markus Gritsch sends this network data to the FPGA via the serial port. The FPGA has a RS232 UART for receiving and sending the data, a 16KB FIFO buffer for storing the data and a emulated SID chip for playing the audio.

Sounds of the Amiga #3 | The group TRIAD made a new music collection. This time they converted well known Amiga music to the C64. The music collection was made by: iopop, Itch, dalezy, ne7, Spot and Taper.

Mega SwinSID | You can see a demonstration of a prototype of the Mega SwinSID on YouTube. This time the original SID is replaced by a STM32 ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller. The microcontroller works at 80 MHz and it uses the integrated 12 bit DACs for stereo output. Currently it is in early stage of development and only basic SID emulation is working.

Digimancy | People are making music with the Commodore C64 since the year 1982. And most people use the SID chip to produce the music. But Jordan Bartee does it a little bit different. He uses various synthesizers and digital equipment to turn the digital signals of the C64 into music. Jordan welcomes you to the micro-galactic frontier.

HybridSID - Network SID Device | Markus Gritsch wrote an alternative firmware for his HybridSID device. It can now act as a Network SID Device and can be used as the sound output device for ACID 64 and GoatTracker. When the HybridSID works together with ACID 64 you will have support for the RSID format and the music is played cycle exact. The HybridSID is a open source project, the schematics and firmware are available to build your own device.

Chris Hülsbeck interview | Sophia Tong interviewed the musician Chris Hülsbeck. You can watch the video of the interview on the GameSpot web page. Chris started his career many years ago making music for computer games. A few examples of games that Chris made music for are: The Great Giana Sisters, Turrican, R-Type, Apidya and M.U.D.S. His latest project is music for Star Trek: Infinite Space.

SIDPLAY 4.1.4 - Mac OS X | SIDPLAY is a Commodore 64 music player for Mac OS X with support for HVSC. The program emulates the sound chip and other internals of the Commodore 64 home computer to play back music that was originally written for a real C64. Changes in this version: Fixed issues in Lion (Mac OS X 10.7). The SID song lengths are corrected after synchronization with the latest HVSC version. Fixed export issues.

SID Known v1.02 | Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#55). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files. The tool has two methods to identify SID music. The first method is to play the SID and generate a hash to look it up in the database. The second method will try to identify the SID tune by it's memory usage.

HVSC #55 | There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more than 40.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 804 new SIDs, 113 fixed/better rips, 742 SID credit fixes, 176 SID model/clock infos, 20 tunes identified and 38 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

HybridSID | Markus Gritsch has improved the firmware of his HybridSID. In this version he added level bars for the SID voices on the display. HybridSID is a hybrid SID player, built with emulated and real hardware. The CPU and CIA are emulated with a PIC32 and the sound is generated by a real SID chip. You can watch a demonstration on YouTube.

JCH-editor 3.1 + NP22-25 | Dane of Booze Design released a new version of the JCH editor. This software pack consists of several players. You can use the player that will fit your needs. Some players use only little raster-time but are not that flexible. Other player have more options but use more time. A very comprehensive manual (English) is included with the music players.

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