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High Voltage SID Collection – Commodore 64 music for the masses

18 points by codetrotter 5y ago

mdp2021 5y ago
...like that friend of mine looking for Internet connections in the early years just to download the first HVSC issues! What a guy. I still often see him, in shopping windows.
- codetrotter 5y ago
  I feel like this comment is from a parallel universe, cause I don’t understand what it means lol
  - mdp2021 5y ago
    I will explain then. The first issues of HVSC appeared in a time in which the Internet was not so easy to find around, codetrotter: universities, some offices, a few friends... Some of us had a thirst for the Internet, to put their hands and floppies on the SID tunes. To anyone their own idea of wealth. Surely I know a person who had that harvesting in the agenda, and bothered even unknown people to download and bring home the loads of SIDtunes ("Sorry, I hear you have an Internet connection in this room, do you mind..."). I keep that person in high esteem, as I wrote. He is typing as I type.
    - codetrotter 5y ago
      Ah, I get it now :) I was originally confused especially much by the line where you said you saw him in store windows. But when you now said that he is typing as you type, I understand. Thanks for explaining and expanding on what you were originally saying.
gwittel 5y ago
What a nice surprise. I haven't heard about HVSC in ages. I can't remember when I first heard about it. Perhaps circa 1998-2000 while in college. There was a radio station (KDVS) where one of the DJs would spend his weekly slot playing SID music. Anyway, nice to see its still around.
- mdp2021 5y ago
  > nice to see its still around It must be because people are still making music for the SID (the demoscene itself is still active¹). And jawdroppingly good tunes, with sounds we did not hear made 30 years ago. First example to come to mind: have you listened to Influx Deluxe, by Flotsam? Myself, I always dreamed of a multi-SID system, say 6 or 12 voices, and I would like to find a collection of good producers for that, since the two-SIDs 6-channels way is now established. But I have not seen, say, a GoatTracker with the multi-SID option, nor I have noticed a sub-collection of multi-SID tunes. (In fact, many use multi-SID for the stereo effect in actual recording: say, a 6581 on one ear and a 8580 on the other). And I want Martin Walker to produce something with it (and Tim and Wally and many many more - but MW first). -- ¹ at csdb.dk, I read at "Latest Releases": "2021-08-17; 2021-08-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16 [end of table of eight]". Post written on the 17th.
  - gwittel 5y ago
    Sadly I haven't had the time to keep up with SID music or demoscene in recent years. Just checked out Influx Deluxe -- very impressive. Hard to believe it came from just 2 SID chips.

18 points by codetrotter 5y ago

mdp2021 5y ago

...like that friend of mine looking for Internet connections in the early years just to download the first HVSC issues! What a guy. I still often see him, in shopping windows.

codetrotter 5y ago
I feel like this comment is from a parallel universe, cause I don’t understand what it means lol
- mdp2021 5y ago
  I will explain then. The first issues of HVSC appeared in a time in which the Internet was not so easy to find around, codetrotter: universities, some offices, a few friends... Some of us had a thirst for the Internet, to put their hands and floppies on the SID tunes. To anyone their own idea of wealth. Surely I know a person who had that harvesting in the agenda, and bothered even unknown people to download and bring home the loads of SIDtunes ("Sorry, I hear you have an Internet connection in this room, do you mind..."). I keep that person in high esteem, as I wrote. He is typing as I type.
  - codetrotter 5y ago
    Ah, I get it now :) I was originally confused especially much by the line where you said you saw him in store windows. But when you now said that he is typing as you type, I understand. Thanks for explaining and expanding on what you were originally saying.

gwittel 5y ago

What a nice surprise. I haven't heard about HVSC in ages. I can't remember when I first heard about it. Perhaps circa 1998-2000 while in college. There was a radio station (KDVS) where one of the DJs would spend his weekly slot playing SID music. Anyway, nice to see its still around.

mdp2021 5y ago
> nice to see its still around It must be because people are still making music for the SID (the demoscene itself is still active¹). And jawdroppingly good tunes, with sounds we did not hear made 30 years ago. First example to come to mind: have you listened to Influx Deluxe, by Flotsam? Myself, I always dreamed of a multi-SID system, say 6 or 12 voices, and I would like to find a collection of good producers for that, since the two-SIDs 6-channels way is now established. But I have not seen, say, a GoatTracker with the multi-SID option, nor I have noticed a sub-collection of multi-SID tunes. (In fact, many use multi-SID for the stereo effect in actual recording: say, a 6581 on one ear and a 8580 on the other). And I want Martin Walker to produce something with it (and Tim and Wally and many many more - but MW first). -- ¹ at csdb.dk, I read at "Latest Releases": "2021-08-17; 2021-08-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16; ...-16 [end of table of eight]". Post written on the 17th.
- gwittel 5y ago
  Sadly I haven't had the time to keep up with SID music or demoscene in recent years. Just checked out Influx Deluxe -- very impressive. Hard to believe it came from just 2 SID chips.