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The links are split into four sections for ease of use and reference. Please do
visit some of these sites as you will find them both informative and useful,
particularly if you are new to HVSC and SID music and wish to gain some
knowledge.
If you think there's a link we should include here that would be of use to other SID fans, please do email HVSC Administration , and if we like it enough, we'll add it for you. |
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| SID Related | Relevant links to do with anything related specifically to the SID, such as SID Hardware. |
| SID Musicians | The men (and women) behind the music that you listen to in HVSC. |
| C64 & Amiga | Relevant Commodore 64 and Amiga pages you may find to be useful. |
| Synth, Computer & Game Music | Other music in real life and in computer games that are well worth checking out. |
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SID Info, Musicians and History
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| The SOASC= Project | Stone Oakvalley's Authentic Sid Collection - A guy sets out to record all tunes from the HVSC on both the 6581 and the 8580 with the help of a real C64, PSID64 and a completely automated record booth. Once he's done we'll have the ultimate SID archive preserved in MP3 format available as free download. 400 GB alltoghether. Insane! INSANE! Whaaaaaaaa! |
| The SID 6581/8580 Recordings Archive |
Currently 405 MP3s of the original SID 6581 and 8580 chips available.
All tunes are recorded from HardSID card and encoded at 256kbps in mono. An RSS
feed is also available.
If you've got the bandwidth, check out this site and hear how the tunes in HVSC are meant to sound! |
| The SID Homepage | Includes technical information, interviews with SID composers, pictures etc. Note that this site cannot be viewed with Internet Explorer. (use a proper browser like Mozilla ;) |
| Sidplay1 Homepage | Home of the original libsidplay library and emulator, with detailed technical information. |
| Sidplay2 Homepage | The more cycle accurate Sidplay2 emulator can be found here, again with technical information and also a repository for the latest builds. |
| composers.c64.org | Lots of composer pictures and greetings from some of them in MP3 format, along with favourites from each composer as nominated by the site maintainers. |
| C64.com | Features many audio and written interviews with famous C64 composers as well as games and demos. Probably THE C64 site that suits all your needs! |
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SID Covers and Remixes
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| C64Audio | Home of the Back in Time series of CDs, along with many other C64 remix CDs released by Chris Abbott including Karma 64. Also has a detailed diary which gives information into the making of the CDs. |
| Remix.Kwed.Org | If you're after a C64 remix, this is the place to go. New mixes being added all the time, and plenty for you to download and enjoy. Ullo Kwed, gotta new remix? ;) |
| May Be Bop | SID music, covered acapella style. I kid you not! Songs available in MP3 format. |
| Press Play On Tape | The C64 music cover band. Check out their album, "Loading Ready Run" as well as the boy band video they've done. They're also rather good live. |
| Remix 64 | C64 Remix scene portal, with news, many interviews with remixers and musicians, as well as a lively messageboard. |
| Machinae Supremacy | Another rather rocking band, who also do the odd great C64 cover now and then. |
| 8 Bit Weapon | Another band doing modern music with the C64, VIC20 and Gameboy sounds. |
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Miscellaneous SID Related
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| HardSID |
A hardware PCI or ISA card with one or more SID chips in it, listen to all your
favourite C64 tunes as they were meant to be heard.
Supported in a wide range of softwares, such as Vice, CCS64, Sidplay1+2. |
| Catweasel MK3 PCI | The Catweasel MK3 card is another PCI hardware expansion card for PCs. It has a SID socket built in that is presently supported by Vice and a Linux SID player. On top of it you get two real C64 compatible joystick ports (which aren't supported yet in any emulator), and it allows connecting your old PC 5.25" floppy drive to transfer d64 disk images to real disks at an amazing speed. |
| SIDStation | A synthesizer with a real SID chip on board, just the thing for all you budding composers out there. |
| MIDIbox SID | A synthesizer based on the famous SID chip - now with a complete control surface which supports up to 4 SIDs! The MIDIbox SID now also provides the ASID protocol and therefore can be used as SID player. |
| LaLa's SID Page | Many useful SID related tools and home of the BIG SID Hunt. |
| Compute Gazette SID Collection | Compute Gazette SIDs, aka Sidplayer tunes, were very popular among the public domain users in North America during the 80s. The current collection contains 5799 MUS files, 1235 STR files and 1529 WDS files. Note, you can play Sidplayer tunes with SIDPlay1 and Sidplay2. |
| SID Player Home Page | The home of the Compute Gazette SID Player, with information from the creator himself, Craig Chamberlain. |
| MODs Covered in HVSC | If you have ever wondered how the original MODs covered by C64 musicians in HVSC sounded, then here is the place for you to download them. |
| The Stairway To Hell | This is a site for BBC Model B computer emulation which also carries some MP3s of BBC game soundtracks, including Stryker's Run and Crazee Rider by Martin Galway. Also lots of BBC games and information. |
| Prophet 64 | The Prophet 64 is software for the C64 that turns it into a TB-303 sequencer with Prophet 5 sound editing interface. It synchronizes MIDI clock with a simple SYNC 24 interface connected to the user port. The Prophet 64 also features an advanced random composer. |
SID Musicians
Thanks to the staff at
http://www.composers.c64.org/
for most of the musicians' links.
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C64 Links
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| Commodore Computer Site List (COCOS) | Think of it like Google 64 :) |
| C64.org | Scene directory portal run by Slaygon/Censor, who also gave HVSC its webspace and domain name (cheers!) |
| C64.com | A nice game portal site too, with many games for download. |
| C64.sk | Open news portal run by CreaMD, with lots of scene news and discussion. |
| Commodore Zone | A gaming portal that allows you to search other archives out there. |
| Project 64 | C64 documents in text format, including game instructions and walkthroughs, and even some maps. |
| Gamebase 64 | Popular C64 gaming front end for emulators, and also home of some pretty rare C64 games as well as the forthcoming Gamebase Collection. |
| Lemon 64 | Lots of game information with a few games that are legally allowed to be downloaded. |
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Amiga Links
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| Amiga Web Directory | Just think - Google Amiga. You'd think we'd be a bit more original ;) |
| Amiga Forever | Links to several Amiga emulators that do the job pretty well. |
| Amigascne | Exotic Amiga music, nostalgia and more. They even mirror HVSC too (thanks!) |
Synth, Computer and Game Music Links
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Synth Artists Covered on the C64
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| Jean-Michel Jarre | Jarre is one of the most covered musicians covered by SID musicians (except Rob Hubbard, in fact!) |
| Depeche Mode | They were big in the 1980s, just like the C64 was really. And like the C64, they're still going! |
| Jan Hammer | The Miami Vice soundtrack he did inspired many a SID musician. |
| Vangelis | You must have heard of him. Chariots of Fire, Bladerunner? They were his. |
| Kraftwerk | One of the real early pioneers of all things synth and ambient. |
| Tangerine Dream | For some reason, many SID musicians liked their work and covered it. And what does one of them do now? Film soundtracks and the like.. |
| Mike Oldfield | Famous for Tubular Bells, which of course later was used in the movie The Exorcist. |
| Larry Fast/SYNERGY | Without Synergy, Rob Hubbard wouldn't have been inspired to write certain game soundtracks. |
| New Order | Many of their 80s songs like Blue Monday and True Faith were often the source of a SID musicians' cover. Manchester's finest are still going as well! |
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Computer and Game Music Links
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| Video Game Music Archive | Many MIDI versions of all your favourite game soundtracks. |
| VORC | Lots of chiptune information and links to sites, a good news portal. |
| Game Music Online | Quite a number of rare game soundtracks for sale. |
| The MOD Archive | The PC equivalent of chiptunes, I guess. Plenty of nice modules to snag. |
| Modplug Central | Hosts the rather good Modplug player and technical information about module formats as used on the PC. (please don't use Winamp for playing MODs/XMs, it really does suck at playing them!) |
| Atari SAP Music Archive | The best and most accurate Atari XL/XE music collection - with over 2,000 Atari tunes, including some from Rob Hubbard and David Whittaker. The Atari version of HVSC, if you like :) |
| Atari ST YM2149 Archive | The best and most accurate Atari ST music collection - with over 4,500 Atari tunes. |
| http://tracking.atari.org | Atari tracking site, news and information on the Atari 8 and 16/32-bit musicscene. |
| Amiga Music Preservation | Amiga Music Preservation (AMP), a non profit association, is running the biggest and most comprehensive database ever about Amiga music and Amiga musicians. |