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The HVSC Downloads page is split into three sections, the
Complete Collection
, followed by
HVSC Updates
and then appropriate
players and tools (including update tools)
that you will find handy to use. Please note that the latest update is always
linked on the front page as well so that when the Updates are released, SID
fans can snag them the moment they are released. Aren't we nice to you?
If any of these sites are slow, please refer to the Mirrors section for download mirrors. |
| Newcomers to HVSC are recommended to download the complete collection. |
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All-in-One Zip Files
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| File | Release Date | File Size | Site Location | Notes | |
| Complete HVSC v48 (ZIP) | March 09, 2008 | 68 MB | random mirror | All-in-one, doublezipped |
MD5, in case you wish to verify the authenticity:
f5648c82d5c14dfdee0932f840bf275a |
| Complete HVSC v48 (RAR) | March 09, 2008 | 50 MB | random mirror | All-in-one, RAR solid archive |
MD5, in case you wish to verify the authenticity:
e7afbe5e40caec688da4b7e5047cdc40 |
If the downloads are too big for your bandwitdth, why not sample some of HVSC
first by using either of these links:
| HVSC's Top 100 SIDs | The Top 100 C64 tunes of all time, as voted by the SID fans and HVSC Team. What are considered to be the best of the best :) |
| HVSC's Best of VARIOUS | Organised by The Shark, this gives you a guide and playlist to some of the best SID tunes in the former VARIOUS series of directories within HVSC. |
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HVSC Updates transform your HVSC Collection from one version to the next. Only
download the updates you need subject to which version of HVSC you actually
have.
If you're not sure which version you have, read this section.
If you're not sure how to install an update, see the help section which should be of use. Windows users need only download the update as it includes the update executable file with it. Other OS users should consult the players and tools section below. |
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HVSC Updates |
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| File (Site 1) | File (Site 2) | Release Date | File Size | Required Version | Resulting Version |
| HVSC Update 28 | HVSC Update 28 | Oct 10, 2001 | 1.45MB | HVSC 4.2 | HVSC 4.3 |
| HVSC Update 29 | HVSC Update 29 | Dec 15, 2001 | 1.45MB | HVSC 4.3 | HVSC 4.4 |
| HVSC Update 30 | HVSC Update 30 | Mar 02, 2002 | 1.45MB | HVSC 4.4 | HVSC 4.5 |
| HVSC Update 31 | HVSC Update 31 | May 04, 2002 | 1.45MB | HVSC 4.5 |
HVSC 4.6 |
| HVSC Update 32 | HVSC Update 32 | Aug 07, 2002 | 1.61MB | HVSC 4.6 | HVSC 5.0 |
| HVSC Update 33 | HVSC Update 33 | Oct 26, 2002 | 1.87MB | HVSC 5.0 | HVSC 5.1 |
| HVSC Update 34 | HVSC Update 34 | Dec 21, 2002 | 3.00MB | HVSC 5.1 | HVSC 5.2 |
| HVSC Update 35 | HVSC Update 35 | May 10, 2003 | 1.7MB | HVSC 5.2 | HVSC 5.3 |
| HVSC Update 36 | HVSC Update 36 | Oct 09, 2003 | 2.3MB | HVSC 5.3 | HVSC 5.4 |
| HVSC Update 37 | HVSC Update 37 | Dec 19, 2003 | 5.5MB | HVSC 5.4 | HVSC 5.5 |
| HVSC Update 38 | HVSC Update 38 | Feb 21, 2004 | 3.4MB | HVSC 5.5 | HVSC 5.6 |
| HVSC Update 39 | HVSC Update 39 | May 27, 2004 | 3.4MB | HVSC 5.6 | HVSC 5.7 |
| HVSC Update 40 | HVSC Update 40 | Sep 27, 2004 | 2.8MB | HVSC 5.7 | HVSC 5.8 |
| HVSC Update 41 | HVSC Update 41 | Jan 28, 2005 | 3.2MB | HVSC 5.8 | HVSC 5.9 |
| HVSC Update 42 | HVSC Update 42 | Jun 09, 2005 | 3.7MB | HVSC 5.9 | HVSC 42 |
| HVSC Update 43 | HVSC Update 43 | Sep 21, 2005 | 3.0MB | HVSC v42 | HVSC v43 |
| HVSC Update 44 | HVSC Update 44 | Dec 24, 2005 | 3.9MB | HVSC v43 | HVSC v44 |
| HVSC Update 45 | HVSC Update 45 | April 17, 2006 | 4.4MB | HVSC v44 | HVSC v45 |
| HVSC Update 46 | HVSC Update 46 | Jan 21, 2007 | 4.7MB | HVSC v45 | HVSC v46 |
| HVSC Update 47 | HVSC Update 47 | Jun 07, 2007 | 4.1MB | HVSC v46 | HVSC v47 |
| HVSC Update 48 | HVSC Update 48 | Mar 09, 2008 | 3.6MB | HVSC v47 | HVSC v48 |
HVSC Players and Tools
HVSC Update Tools
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The Update Tools are the required update executables that other OS users
apart from Windows
will need to download. The original source code for the updates was initially
programmed by The Shark, with later versions being developed by Michael
Schwendt, LaLa and Simon White. The people below then compiled the update on
various OSes and tested it to make sure that they work for you.
Simply download the update first, then download the update file below. Unzip
the update, and unzip the below choice of file into your update directory that
the update zip created. Then run the executable.
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HVSC Update Tools
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| File | Operating System | File Size | Version | Author |
| HVSC Update Tool | Linux (i386 compatible) | 205K | 2.8.4 | Laust Brock-Nannestad |
| HVSC Update Tool | AmigaOS | 155K | 2.8.3 | Jools Smyth |
| HVSC Update Tool | BeOS | 27K | 2.8.2 | Thomas Neumann |
| HVSC Update Tool | Solaris on SPARC | 66K | 2.8.2 | Simon White |
| HVSC Update Tool |
FreeBSD (any version)
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varying | 2.8.3 | Anders Nordby |
| HVSC Update Tool | Atari ST with MINT External OS loaded - must also have long filename support like MinixFS, Ext2FS or VFAT | 192K | 2.8.3 | Anders Eriksson |
| HVSC Update Tool |
C++ source code
(If you manage to compile the 2.8.4 on any other exotic platform that doesn't have the 2.8.4 yet, please |
109K | 2.8.4 | Simon White |
Links to Players
| To play any of the tunes in HVSC, you will need a player to play them on. Most players were based on the libsidplay emulation developed by Michael Schwendt, but increasingly now there are players based on the cycle-accurate libsidplay2 emulation, developed by Simon White. HVSC in its current form encourages the use of libsidplay2 emulation as it can take advantages of the extra features some of the files in HVSC require. However, for those of you who have PCs not capable enough to run any libsidplay2-based player, feel free to try a libsidplay1-based one instead, which has served many SID fans very well over the years. |
| Link | Description |
| Sidplay2/Windows | Home of the Sidplay1 and Sidplay2 for Windows player with GUI front end and many options that make it the player of choice for Windows users. |
| Sidplay2 homepage | Home of the libsidplay2 emulation engine. The source code is available for developers along with useful documentation and player links. |
| Sidplay1 homepage | Home of the orignal libsidplay emulation engine. The website also serves as a useful guide to players that adapt the emulation engine as well as have documents regarding ripping SID tunes, using SID music in web pages and so on. |
| Sidplay/Mac OS | The MacOS version covers both libsidplay1 and libsidplay2 emulation, along with having the HVSC Update tool built in and many other cool features. |
| Acid 64 |
ACID 64 player is a SID player for Windows that can play SID
tunes on sound cards with a real SID chip
only
, like the
HardSID
card and the
Catweasel MK3/MK4 PCI/Flipper
card.
(No use downloading this if you haven't got a HardSID or a Catweasel!) |
| XMPlay |
XMPlay is a great multiformat player that plays MOD, XM and other PC/Amiga
Tracker formats as well as MP3 and OGG.
With the latest
SID Plugin
it also plays SID tunes at a very good quality.
It's libsidplay2/resid 0.16 based, hence it will play RSID tunes, Basic tunes and it even supports the songlength database. |
| SidTool |
Sidtool is a great frontend for Sidplay2/Tinysid and most importantly the VICE
commandline player that allows usage of its advanced but CPU consuming
resampling modes.
With an advanced database driven search functionality and very intuitive playlist creation feature we recommend this to every Win32 user with enough horsepower to run the VICE resampling modes (around 2 GHz should do, so don't be scared). Requirements: .NET |
| Foobar 2000 (special installer) |
The SID plugin of the
Foobar 2000
audio player will do fine for most purposes.
It's libsidplay2/resid based, hence it will play RSID tunes, Basic tunes and it even supports the songlength database. The SID plugin isn't included in the special installer of Foobar anymore, but you can get it from kode's plugin site . |
| Winamp 5 | There's now a SID plugin for Winamp 5 available. It's libsidplay2/resid 0.16 based and will thus play RSID and Basic tunes at a recommendable quality. It lacks songlength database support, but on the other hand it features a pseudo stereo that sounds quite nice. |
SID Tools
| Below are some useful tools to do with SID music in general. Some are useful for those who rip SID music, some are useful for those who wish to enhance their playing experience, and so on. |
| Name | Author | Description |
| SIDEdit | LaLa |
SIDEdit is an all powerful tool available as a Perl script and Windows
executable that makes a simple task of file conversion to SID format. It also
features support for the PSIDv2NG and RSID file formats used in HVSC along with
the ability to hex edit the SID data, and correct or change any of the SID
fields. It also means that you can simply add all the information in one go
making life simple.
NOTE: SID2LFN is now discontinued in view of SIDEdit. |
| SID Live! Experience | Hans Bergengren | Got a Soundblaster Live! or Audigy sound card? Then this is a must. It's a set of presets to be used with the card's Envionmental Audio settings which add some nice effects to the SID tune playing. Use it with Martin Galway's tunes and they sound awe-inspiring! There are presets for all the speaker set ups, including Live! Surround (which I use) and as a bonus, the package also has a set of EA presets for Marble Madness on MAME. |
| Another SB Live! Preset | Yves Rogne |
As Yves couldn't load the above presets into his SB Live! 5.1 he created his
own preset. "My sound effect uses the 5.1 sound systems to simulate the
environment of a 500 m² big empty room in which a big hifi would be
playing. Don't panic: the sound level is not changed, it's just the reverb,
echo, filters and a bunch of parameters that were used to play the sound
individually between the 5 speakers that makes the effects. Also "bass
redirection" enabled improves the quality of the effect by keeping all the
bass intact to the subwoofer. Because it uses real time sound effects between
the 5 speakers I don't know how it sounds with 2 speakers.
PS: Adjusting the balance (manually, unfortunately) to set the sound to 15% rear will improve the quality of the effect. To do that launch the surround mixer and select balance. You will get a kind of cross with a big dot in the center. Drag the dot a bit to the bottom and retest the sound. All emails to me will get a reply." |
| PSID64 | Roland Hermans | PSID64 takes a SID from HVSC, uses the C64 data and turns the whole thing into a C64 .prg file which you can load and run on a real C64 to hear the SID tune as intended on the real thing. Available currently for Linux and Windows. |
| HVSID Player V3c | Soci/Singular |
The HVSID player was originally intended as a plugin for the IDE64 system, to
conveniently play back SID tunes on a real C64. Now it's also possible to use
it as a standalone application on any real C64 with floppy drive. Just copy
some SIDs to a disk, include the player in the zip archive and start listening
to the unmodified .sid files on your real C64!
According to the author (and tests I made myself) it plays about 99% of the SIDs in HVSC, which presently makes it the ultimate SID player for real C64 users, far better than the outdated realsidplay. |
| Sidplay64 v0.4 | Glenn Rune Gallefoss / SHAPE / Blues Muz' | Does just what Soci's HVSID Player does, plays unmodified .sid files on a real C64. This one has got a somewhat nicer menu system to navigate the tunes on your disk and it takes the FREEPAGE fields into account, so the player always tries to go to a safe memory location without getting overwritten by the tune. Highly recommended tool for the real C64 user! |
| SID PC64 Winamp plugin v2.0 | Jakub Wozniakowski |
Want to play back your SID tunes on a real SID chip, but are too lazy to fiddle
around with all the helper applications mentioned above? Then this is probably
something for you: Control your C64 through your PC running Winamp 2.x! Here's
all you need:
Requirement: Win95/98/ME/2000/XP Yep, it does work like a breeze on XP without any tweak packages or timeconsuming trial-and-error orgies, I do use this regularly! Roughly estimated compatibility: 90-95% (no digi tunes, no RSID tunes, no tunes that have PLAY=0) |
Remember: If any of these sites are slow,
please refer to the Mirrors section
for download mirrors.