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- Well recently I downloaded the HVSC
- top 100 sids, converted them into PRG
- format in a matter of seconds, and
- played them through my stereo via
- real C64 with 6581 Sid Chip.
-
- Awesome! A tune like "FAME" you
- could not forget from the early days of
- C64, even if I have not heard it in
- such a long time. The "Last Ninja"
- tunes are there, which I love to
- listen to regularly anyway - but I do
- find the first Last Ninja tunes are
- below average when Compared to the 2nd
- and 3rd in the series. "Driller" is a
- killer tune by Matt Gray that takes up
- little space, but goes on forever.
-
- "Batman" from JCH, definitely one of
- the most memorable tunes of all time.
- "Mutants" has the most ethereal
- spooky effect I have ever heard on the
- C64. Then you have all the Rob
- Hubbard and Jeroen Tel classics, and
- much more. Please download it from
- the HVSC site, if you have not done so
- already!
-
- There are so many great tunes in this
- Top 100 collection, I find it as an
- invaluable resource - because you are
- getting the most outstanding tunes
- from the large HVSC collection.
-
- The HVSC do a great work, and on
- that subject - the 10 year Anniversary
- demo from HVSC made my jaw drop!
- What an awesome collection of SID
- music!! This collection would be the
- best Music collection ever released on
- C64, surely! Such variety and
- differences in mood and style from all
- the musicians - it is like taking a
- journey through some wonderful
- soundscapes. As far as the design and
- layout of 10 years HVSC
-
- - it could not possibly be better. Not
- only can you listen to these awesome
- SID's, but you can read the articles
- which are very informative in relation
- to C64 music. You must download this
- from CSDB now! I would never have
- expected such a great music collection
- to pop up, let's hope there are some
- great wares planned for the 25th
- Anniversary of C64 in 2007!
-
- Signing off,
- Luke Lynde (IQ-Dna/People of
- Liberty)
-
- ============================
-
- Commodore Free Interview with
- HVSC team
-
- > Who are you and what do you do for
- a job?
-
- My name is Peter Sandn (aka
- Yodelking) and I'm from Sweden.I got
- my first Commodore 64 in 1983.I
- work as a technican for a family
- company called Formec.
-
- > I notice this is a collaboration who
- else is involved?
-
- The HVSC-crew is well described in
- Creators.txt in the documents folder
- of the HVSC collection. But we get a
- lot of help from external contributers
- who helps out a lot.
-
- > Where do you live / what are your
- likes dislikes?
-
- I live in Staffanstorp in the southern of Sweden.
-
- > What attracted you to sid music?
-
- It was always amazed by the lovely
- melodies that were created, & for it's
- time it was really cool sounds. Still
- today I favor tunes with good melodies
- over technically advanced tunes. This
- goes for all music, not only SIDs.
-
- > What commodore machines do you own?
-
- In the old days I had c64, c128, Amiga
- 1000, 500, 1200...(not at the same
- time, though...) I sold my last c128 in
- 1989 together with almost all my
- disks. (and YES, I still miss my old
- disks, and I've regret it ever since!)
- Somewhere in 1994 I bought a c64
- again. Currently I have 6 c-64's and 2
- diskdrives.
-
- > What amount of time is spent
- maintaning HVSc?
-
- Impossible to say, as we're a big team.
- But it's quite a lot of hours spent on
- ripping music, verifying credits,
- ensure that it works on a real c64,
- making the update script, and so on...
-
- > How do you get the SID tunes who
- extracts them?
-
- We have several music rippers in the
- team who works on this, newer music
- is often more easy to rip than those
- from old games where the coder made
- the music, spreading the routines all
- over the memory. Also we get some
- great help from some composers who
- send in their own tunes, which saves
- us lots of time.
-
- > Has anyone complained about
- copyright? Have you had to remove songs
- due to copyright issues?
-
- We didn't remove any tunes, but we've
- been asked to do it in the past.
-
- > Do you know of any CHART music
- that has ripped off SID tunes?
-
- Yes, as a matter of fact there is.. :)
-
- > Does the music collection work for
- other platforms?
-
- If you're refering to SID collections,
- HVSC works under several platforms,
- including Windows, Linux, Beos,
- Amiga... (some tunes can't be played
- on the Amiga due to not updated
- players, though.)
-
- > Do you plan a website version for
- the Amiga computers?
-
- The HVSC already works on Amiga.
- And if you refer to collecting MOD's,
- there are already such sites.
-
- > Do you listen to music other than
- SID tunes?
-
- Yes, I like most kinds of music, except
- Jazz. I'm especially fond of Mike
- Oldfield and Enya.
-
- > How many tunes / authors are in the
- current download?
-
- We have currently 33000 sidfiles in
- HVSC (some have several subtunes
- aswell...) I have no idea about how
- many authors, as several are unknown.
-
- > How long has HVSC site been going?
-
- HVSC was started 1996.
-
- > How do you feel about current state
- of music / non Sid Commodore related?
-
- I feel a lot music is being rushed, and
- mass-produced which lowers the quality.
- It's not often I buy a record where I
- like all tunes. (That actually only
- happened once: Merril Bainbridge with
- "The Garden")
-
- > Are there any other projects you are
- working on?
-
- I'm doing the composers page:
- http://composers.c64.org/ and I'm also
- working on a "Sidhunt" page where
- people can request SIDs they miss out
- on in HVSC.
-
- > Where does it go from here,
- obviously the project will never end,
- but do you have a final cutoff date or
- do you plan to maintane the collection
- for as long as possible?
-
- We all grow older and the amount of
- spare time decreases. We haven't set
- any date for when we consider the
- project to be finished. We work on as
- long as we enjoy it, and hopefully
- when people in the crew gets other
- priorities in life, we might get other
- people to join.
-
- > What question would you liked to
- have been asked?
-
- Nothing comes to mind at the moment.
- But feel free to ask more questions if
- you have any.
-
- > Have you read Commodore free
- magazine?
-
- No, personally I never heard of it.
-
- Best regards, Peter
-
-