Information About the Creators of High Voltage SID Collection ============================================================= The HVSC crew is composed of some of the biggest SID fans in the world. Below is some information about the people who helped make HVSC possible. This file will also give you an idea as to which tunes on the C64 are considered the best. *********************************************** * The Shark of International Network of Chaos * * * *********************************************** 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- "Ark Pandora" (tunes 1-3) - Ben Daglish "Black Lamp" - Tim Follin "Hysteria" - Fred Gray "Knucklebusters" - Rob Hubbard "The Last Ninja" - Ben Daglish & Anthony Lees "Nemesis the Warlock" - Rob Hubbard "Platoon" - Jonathan Dunn "That's the Way It Is" - Jeroen Tel "Thunderforce" (all tunes) - Johannes Bjerregaard "Wizball" (tune 7) - Martin Galway 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- "ATA" - Antti Hannula "Brutality 6" - Page "Dexion Ranking Demo" - Kim Christensen (Future Freak / Dexion) "Hit Points" - Klaus Grongċrd (Link) "Mixable" - Marcel Donne (MAD / Scoop / MoN) Contributions ------------- The grunt work! Sorted and searched and sorted and searched. :) Eliminated a billion repeats by hand (or ear?). Dug up a few C64 titles for friends to rip. Contacted several composers asking (begging) for help. Corrected thousands of credits. Made the UPDATE tool and other SID tools. Comments -------- Looking back to the old days on the C64, I can't remember when I first started to really listen to the music, but I distinctively remember being blown away by Commando (Hubbard) and its very famous high-score music. After that, it was all of the tunes jammed into Lettermaker/Futurewriter that really got me hooked. No other system since has been able to compare. Also, thanks to Strider of FairLight for introducing me to SIDPlay! C64 History ----------- Upgraded from a Vic20 to a C64 in 1983. Started INC in 1987 which specialized in importing/exporting software from/to Europe, and we also managed a few USA cracks. Kept C64 to this day in order to still hear the music (and perhaps play an old game or two). *************************************** * Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries * * Rambones/The Supply Team, 1985-1989 * * * * Email: rambones@get2net.dk * *************************************** 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- "The Combat Game" - Jeroen Tel "Delta" - Rob Hubbard "Eliminator" - Jeroen Tel "Gerry The Germ" - Rob Hubbard "Infodroid" - Fred Gray "Mikie" - Martin Galway "Rambo" - Martin Galway "The Vikings" - Ben Daglish "Wizball" - Martin Galway "Zoids" - Rob Hubbard 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- "Ode To Galway" - Marco Swagerman (MC) "Attention" - Christof Mühlan (Banana) "Still Rolling" - Marco Swagerman and Oscar Giesen (MC+OPM) "The Galway One" - Thomas E. Petersen (Laxity) "Zound-Muzak #3" - Rambones Contributions ------------- Added several hundred new tunes from his collection and others. Helped verified SID musician list. Ripped even more tunes (has this guy ripped the most of anyone? 1364 as of Update #1). Helped with giving several tunes the proper credits. Added a few ideas that helped make the collection better. Comments -------- I'd just like to get in contact with 2 of my old friends in the SID business: Jipe/The Supply Team, and Banana/The Electronic Knights. Write to me! C64 History ----------- My interview at In Medias Res.: http://www.kuai.se/~zike/imr/zimr.htm go into 'C64 persons' and click my name. ************************************************** * Darren, Bod/Talent * ************************************************** 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- "Knucklebusters" - Rob Hubbard "Parallax" - Martin Galway "Talented Bells" - Edwin van Santen/20cc "Terra Cresta" Martin Galway "Trap" - Ben Daglish "Yie Ar Kung Fu" - Martin Galway "Yie Ar Kung Fu II" - Martin Galway (Bod chose to only list seven.) 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- I+T Tune by Mixer/Origo I have no names for the other faves. Contributions ------------- Providing several C64 demos/games on his C64 CD which allowed us to fill in the proper credits for several tunes. Renaming the NemeSIDs collection by hand so that it could be used with SIDPlay (shortly after, a tool emerged that could do this automatically :). Provided around 50-100 SIDs for the collection. Comments -------- Being involved in some way with this SID collection means a lot to me. The 64 was part of me for a long time and listening to some of these tunes bring back so many happy and fond memories of good times and friendship that I have known through the C64 Scene since I started. C64 History ----------- I got my c64 back in 1986 and joined Hotline in 1987. Supplying, trading and cracking. In 1990 me and XXX left Hotline and started our own group Talent, later the same year we joined up with our Danish Friends in Ikari to form the best co-op that ever lived. :) Ikari & Talent. ******************************************************* * Michael Schwendt (The Mage) * ******************************************************* 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- Comment: Since I keep a list of my personal top 200 sidtunes, making a selection of only 15 out of 200 was a very hard decision. I had to leave out further great tunes (e.g. by Jeroen Tel/Maniacs Of Noise, Wally Beben, Neil Baldwin et al). "Bad Cat" (Intro) - Chris Hülsbeck "Bulldog" - Ben Daglish "DNA Warrior" - Laxity & Future Freak "Exploding Fist" - Neil Brennan "Future Knight" - Ben Daglish "Knight Games" - David Whittaker "The Last Ninja" - Ben Daglish & Anthony Lees "Lightforce" - Rob Hubbard "Mutants" - Fred Gray "Rambo" - Martin Galway 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- "Compleeto!" - Anders Andreen/Moz(IC)Art "Elysium's Origon (Loader)" - Touldie "Niggling" - Geir Tjelta/Moz(IC)Art "PLIS" - Stello Doussis "SYS4096" - AMJ Contributions ------------- Added a bunch of great tune fixes. Helped find repeats in the collection. Helped with the proper identification of SID tunes. Added to and helped correct the musician list. Added several ideas to help with the collection. Answered several questions about SIDPlay and SIDs in general. Added several new tunes to the collection. Comments -------- I simply adore the SID (the MOS-6581), its sound capabilities and especially the quality of the SID tunes. Imagine, those SIDs consist only out of three voices (neglecting the virtual fourth channel for samples). In comparison, most of the existing MODules from Amiga and PC, which use several hundred kilobytes of high-quality samples, sound like crap ! Disgusting, isn't ? Btw, I think the High Voltage SIDtune Collection will be the new standard on the Net. **************************************** * Adam Lorentzon * **************************************** 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- "Bombo" - Ben Daglish "Bionic Commando" - Tim Follin "Cybernoid" - Jeroen Tel "Delta" - Rob Hubbard "Game Over" - Martin Galway "Hawkeye" - Jeroen Tel "The Last Ninja" - Ben Daglish & Anthony Lees "The Last Ninja II" - Matt Gray "Myth" - Jeroen Tel "Rambo" - Martin Galway 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- "Fifth Axis" - Gilles Soulet "Future Composer Tune" - Rock "MacGyver Theme" - Oliwer Klaewer "Omega Man" - Jori Olkkonen (Yip) "Sampler #1 (1/4)" - Jens Christian Huus (well-known artist, but not the best-known out of his gazillion tunes) Contributions ------------- Added new conversion options to SIDPlay (Win) that helped out this collection tremendously. Provided a ton of credit fixes. Helped identify tunes in the collection. Relayed several new SIDs and now has become a proficent ripper himself. Comments -------- Check out the C64 Games WWW Page at http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d93-alo/c64/ It has the SIDPLAY/Windows homepage amongst other bits of C64 nostalgia, and a massive list of links. ************************************* * Wilfred Bos * ************************************* 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- "Comic Bakery" - Martin Galway "Delta" - Rob Hubbard "Flimbo's Quest" - Reyn Ouwehand & Johannes Bjerregaard "G.I. Hero" - Jeroen Tel "Hawkeye" - Jeroen Tel "Hysteria" - Fred Gray "Light Force" - Rob Hubbard "Parallax" - Martin Galway "Pimple Squeezer 6" (part 3) - Johannes Bjerregaard "That's the Way It Is" - Jeroen Tel 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- "Crooner" - Thomas Mogensen (DRAX) "Emerald Mine 2" - Oliver Klaewer "Ode to Galway" - Marco Swagerman (MC) "P.W. Botha" - Tomas Danko (Gaunt) "Tina Turner" - Jörg Rosenstiel Contributions ------------- Has ripped several tunes and found SIDs from other collections that weren't part of HV SIDs. Provided a few corrected rips. Helped find some SID tune credits. Found several errors in HV SIDs. Comments -------- What an incredible sound chip! If you hear all the music in this collection, then you know that most music composers are real artists. They got the best out of the SID chip. They made special effects that even today's normal synthesizers can't make. There were a lot of moments that I turned on my C64 only for having some nice background music. Happily there is now Sidplay... C64 History ----------- I got my first C64 in 1985. In 1987 I started with 3 other friends the group Channel Four. My nickname was Fred. I made a lot of demos for this group. In the beginning of 1989 a started making my own music routine. Unfortunately it wasn't finished and I lost it. I sold my C64 with my whole demo collection. A few years later I had many regrets that I sold all the software with it. I bought a C64 again when I heard Sidplay 1.04 for DOS. When I play the old C64 music on my PC, a lot of memories come back... Check out my homepage at: http://www.worldonline.nl/~wbos **************************************************** * Kristoffer Johansson * **************************************************** 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- "DMC Demo III" (tune 2) - Johannes Bjerregaard "Gaplus" - Jeroen Tel "Ghouls 'n Ghosts" - Tim Follin "Nemesis The Warlock" - Rob Hubbard "Rambo" - Martin Galway "Stormlord" - Johannes Bjerregaard & Jeroen Tel "Terra Cresta" - Martin Galway "The Last Ninja" - Ben Daglish & Anthony Lees "Wizball" - Martin Galway "Zoids" - Rob Hubbard 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- "Compleeto!" - Anders Andreen/Moz(ic)Art "For Legend 2" - Iron Cat/TRC "Game On Intro" - Lords of Sonics "Jeremiah" - Tomas Danko "Rocky Star" - Kim Christensen (Future Freak/Dexion) Contributions ------------- Ripped a ton a highly requested tunes as well as making better rips of tunes already in HVSC. Also provided credit fixes and some other great information. Comments -------- SID music simply makes me feel good. The songs from the good old 64 have a musical honesty, brought by the crude environment in which they were created. And every now and then, the quality of the these compositions really astonish me. True art, of our time. ****************************************** * LaLa (Imre Olajos, Jr.) * ****************************************** 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- (note: LaLa's favourite SIDs are also in SIDPlay Lists - get them from the URL below) "Auf Wiedersehen Monty / Monty 2" - Rob Hubbard & Ben Daglish "Bad Cat" - Chris Hülsbeck "Commando" - Rob Hubbard "Knucklebusters" - Rob Hubbard "Last Ninja" - Ben Daglish & Anthony Lees "Ocean Loader v3.0" - Peter Clarke "Parallax" - Martin Galway "Stormlord" (Tune #2) - Johannes Bjerregaard "Supremacy" - Jeroen Tel "Sweet" - Johannes Bjerregaard 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- "Compleeto!" - Anders Andreen "Hayes" - Euratom "Jammin' Loose" - Linus Nielsen (Boogaloo) "Mixer" - Mixer "" (Zarda003.sid) - Ari-Pekka Paljakka (Zardax) Contributions ------------- Indirectly was responsible for forwarding many tunes. Maintains the SID Tune Information List (STIL) which contains orginal artist information and other trivia about the SIDs in HVSC. Also runs the HVSC Request web page. Comments -------- C64 music is the alpha and the omega in my life. I knew there was something special going on when I heard LOCO from Ben. Then I learned it was really Jarre - so I got into Jarre. I remember when I first heard Commando by Rob - I was just totally blown away, but the funny thing is that nobody in my neighborhood really understood why I was so crazy about such blip-blop computer muzak... The rest is history, and music in general became an essential part of my life. C64 History ----------- The first computer I have ever touched: a ZX-81 at age 6. Then came Spectrum, something I really wanted but never got 'cause my Dad bought me a C-64 instead. I don't think I will ever regret his decision. :) Have never been into the scene, but I had good contact with swappers, so I was always flooded with games and demos (who wasn't? ;). Unfortunately, I had to sell my C64 before we moved to the US from Hungary. I still remember that sad date: on October 6, 1991 I waved goodbye to my beloved machine... HVSC and Michael's SIDPLAY has truly saved my sanity!!! LaLa's SID pages (SIDPlayLists, STIL stuff, and other SID-related things) -> http://lala.c64.org *********************************************************** * Andreas Varga (mr.sid) * * (as an alternative) * *********************************************************** 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- "Auf Wiedersehen Monty" - Rob Hubbard & Ben Daglish "Bionic Commando" - Tim Follin "Commando" - Rob Hubbard "Cybernoid" - Jeroen Tel "Hawkeye" - Jeroen Tel "Knucklebusters" - Rob Hubbard "Last Ninja 3" - Reyn Ouwehand "Scout" - Jeroen Tel "Stormlord" (ingame) - Johannes Bjerregaard "Wizball" - Martin Galway 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- "Killers" - Cavi "Listen & Learn" - Michael Nilsson and Stellan Andersson (Mitch&Dane) "Mamba Intro" - Guy Shavitt "Mystery" - Prosonix "Sex 'n' Crime" - Jesper Olsen (JO) Contributions ------------- Has provided several rips and is known for his mega-fast transfering of party competition SIDs to PSID format. Provided some credit fixes and other useful information. The lone MacOS representative. :) Comments -------- SID music is an integral part of my life. Not a single day passes without me spending at least an hour listening to my favourite tunes. I remember the early spring of 1987. I was 11 years old, sitting in school, with my walkman, playing a tape of Commando by Rob Hubbard. My teacher took it away... Man, I was pissed ! :) Gosh, this was ELEVEN years ago !! C64 History ----------- Laming around in the non-existent Austrian scene. mr.sid's web site -> http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426444/ ******************************** * Gabriele Priarone (G-Knight) * * Email: * ******************************** 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- "Agent X II" - Tim Follin "Bionic Commando" - Tim Follin "Cybernoid 2" - Jeroen Tel "Iron Lord" - Jeroen Tel "Hysteria" - Fred Gray "Master of Magic" - Rob Hubbard "Ocean Loader V2" - Martin Galway "Platoon" - Jonathan Dunn "Retrograde" - Steve Rowlands "Terramex" - Ben Daglish 5 Favorite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- "Beatball" - Steven Diemer (A-Man) "Holiday Dream '91 Endpart" - Lars Hutzelmann (The Blue Ninja) "The Seventh" - Ari-Pekka Paljakka (Zardax) "Stardust 2" - Soedesoft "Ultimate Intro" - Volker Meitz (PRI) Contributions ------------- Provided several credit fixes. Sent in some SIDs after learning how to rip. Runs the HVSC News web page which keeps track of the latest rips submitted to the HVSC crew. He is now working on a collection of Amiga game music tunes. Contact him if you are willing to help. Comments -------- I still remember the days passed listening to C64 music. I often loaded some games only to hear their awesome music. I then recorded many tapes with hours of C64 musics on them to hear them whenever I was willing to. Most people don't understand the real meaning of music. It doesn't matter the sounds, doesn't matter the quality, the only thing that should be considered are the melodies. Most people think C64 music is crap only because it doesn't feature real drums or famous musicians' speech.. well, they'll never know what they're missing. C64 History ----------- The first computer I've ever seen was a ZX-Spectrum at the age of 7 ...damn, I can't really remember what I saw, but I was amazed by the things it could do. I and my brother decided to buy it, but my father thought that would have been better to buy a C64. It was 1987. I've never regretted his decision. I still remember my first original game I've ever played: DeathWish 3 with awesome music by Ben Daglish. This was the first happy moment of my life. The second happy moment of my life was 8 years later, when i found SidPlay V1.23b in a BBS with a little collection of music included... Until then I thought I was the only fool who listened daily to C64 music, but I was not alone! :) ********************************************** * Warren Pilkington (Waz of Zaw Productions) * * wazzaw@globalnet.co.uk * ********************************************** 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ----------------------- Comment: This was a very difficult choice to make, but all the below are in my opinion, classic C64 tunes that need to be heard. I've also picked 10 different C64 musicians to be fair to them all: "Armalyte" - Martin Walker "Cybernoid" - Jeroen Tel "Draconus" - Adam Gilmore "Great Giana Sisters (Intro)" - Chris Hülsbeck "Ghouls 'n' Ghosts" (especially tune #1) - Tim Follin "Last Ninja 2" (especially tunes #4 and #6) - Matt Gray "Mutants" - Fred Gray "Platoon" - Jonathan Dunn "Thalamusik" - Rob Hubbard (my favourite tune ever) "Wizball" (especially tune #7) - Martin Galway 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ------------------------------------------ "Cyberworld" - Sĝren Lund (Jeff) "Dreams' Odyssee Parts 1 and 2" - Volker Meitz (PRI) "Happy Hour" - Stefan Konarkowski (Alien) "Melt Your Brain" - Oliver Klee (Odi) "Spellbound" - Glenn Gallefoss (the best Hubbard cover version in HVSC) Contributions ------------- Warren seems to be an authority on British software houses. This has lead him to send us quite a number of credit fixes in addition to providing some interesting C64 music/game history. Warren has also provided tons of tunes, added several STIL entries, fixed bad rips, and has contacted some old composers for some proper information. Comments -------- For me, the SID chip was ahead of its time when launched into the C64 many years ago. The original 6581 was simply a design for life, and soon realised many great themes from the likes of Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway. What was more, most tunes didn't sound like 'chip' music at all, they were soundtracks for a generation of gaming. If you look at most modern game developments, the backbone of C64 musicians are still influencing computer gaming soundtracks today. Look at where Hubbard and Galway are now... When I finally got net access in June 1997 (after some three years of saving up for a PC and modem!), I wanted to find all the C64 info I could - and found the High Voltage SID Collection. In years to come may people listen to this collection and realise how memorable C64 music really is. C64 History ----------- I first got a Commodore Plus/4 in 1985 and spent many a day using one. However I really wanted a C64 and realised my dream in 1987. Imagine my shock when I heard Rob Hubbard's 'Thalamusik' (the Sanxion Loading theme) for the first time. It blew me away, and is still my favourite C64 tune ever written. I also delved into making POKEs for games after I became proficient at Plus/4 POKEs (a lot of which have never been seen as yet, note:) and writing tips, and in September 1988, my first tips (for Stormbringer) were published in Zzap! 64. From then until late 1991 I contributed a stack of tips, listings and POKEs to Zzap! 64, sometimes under my nickname of "Waz". I enjoyed having good contact with some of the Zzap! 64 reviwers (especially Robin Hogg, who would send me disk and tape games to POKE/write listings for and I even was allowed to keep some of them.) until Newsfield went bust in October 1991. Robin also got me into writing music hacks for games and I must have had quite a considerable number published for a lot of games. I then started to contribute numerous tips and listings to Commodore Format (1991-1996) and perhaps my most infamous listing was the 'Codemasters Multihack Simulator' (pardon the pun if you will!) released in 1992. I had noticed that strangely most Codemasters and old Mastertronic games all used the same loader, so I created a master listing to hack that loader and had published around 150 sets of datalines for various games. Most of my CF tips were done for Andy Roberts (one time third member of Apex) who I still keep in contact with. I also still run my 'listings request service' where C64 users can write to me (with SAE for reply if in the UK) asking for listings for games. In 1991, I also formed my 'group' Zaw Productions (even though it's mostly me) for mainly writing C64 music. I have composed around 190+ tunes on the C64 in the last six years, including making the 'Quadraped Tearaways' series of album- length music demos. I also helped Peter de Bie a fair bit with his ambitious 'Screens' collection, which ended as some 30 disks' worth of C64 music rips, and each had a screen with all the info on. In many ways this was a precursor to what HVSC is now, and I was proud to help Peter with credit fixes and a fair amount of rips on my part (around 10% were mine in there..) Peter, if you ever come out of the Dutch army in Bosnia and read this, look me up - it'd be great to hear from you again! I've also had some music of mine in games, and even now I still am writing C64 music as well as dedicating a fair amount of my time to the HVSC, writing two regular articles for 'Commodore Zone' magazine and tracking down ex-Zzap! 64 reviewers for old times... Zaw Towers on the WWW: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~wazzaw/ *********************************** * Inge H.P. ("448" 1985-1991) * * inge.pedersen@bamble.kommune.no * *********************************** 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- "Bionic Commando" - Tim Follin "Delta" - Rob Hubbard "FAME (1)" - Michael Hendriks/FAME "Flimbo's Quest" - Johannes Bjerregaard/MoN "Paradise" - Edwin van Santen/20CC "Parallax" - Martin Galway "Rambo Loader" - Martin Galway "That's The Way It Is" - Jeroen Tel "To Be On Top Intro" - Chris Hülsbeck "W.A.R." - Rob Hubbard 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- "Commando Remix" - Swallow/Censor "Gloria" - Michael Nilsson and Stellan Andersson (Mitch & Dane) "Jammalade" - Thomas Mogensen (DRAX) "Jammin' Loose" - Linus Neilsen (Boogaloo) "Sweet and Sour" - Volker Meitz (PRI) Contributions ------------- Inge has ripped several SIDs and represents the Amiga community quite well. As he notes below he plans to fixe a few SIDs so that they work on _both_ PlaySID and SIDPlay (actually, he has already fixed a few). Inge also holds the 'coveted' SID Hunt MVP award which was awarded to the ripper who ripped the most SIDs from Lala's SID Hunt list. I should note that Inge almost wasn't accepted into the HVSC team due to his Hubbard comment below... ;) Comments -------- I was feeling most honored when asked to be a part of this team. Since I got my C64 back in 1984, I have always felt a certain dragging towards the wonderful music of the SID. As I use both Amiga and PC nowadays, I feel there is next to none of the modern tracker-tunes that have that little extra like SIDmusic has. C64 History ----------- When some friends of mine got their C64's in 1983, I didn't stop bugging my parents until I got one myself. That was in spring 1984. As so many others, I started my C64-life by playing games. My first game was Terminal Software's "Super Skramble", which also my parents enjoyed. Some times later, Turbo Tape appeared at some friends, and soon we had loads of tapes with games. Later I had to buy a disk drive. I tried to learn basic during my first years, and in the end, I had made several Font-editors and the likes. In 1986, I started to learn assembly, and in 1987 I made lots of scrollers and crappy demos (You know, "demos" which consisted of a picture and a scrolltext, and some music). In August 1990 I bought an Amiga 500. Strangely enough, the years 1990-91 was my most productive years on the C64. ...until my old C64 broke down. I got it fixed late in 1992, but soon it broke down again. In 1994 I bought an A1200 which I am still using. In 1995 I bought another C64, and revived some of my C64 skills. I made a parallel cable, and suddenly I could transfer files back and forth between by C64 and Amiga. ...until I short- circuited the cable (and also my C64) in October 1996. Since then, I have done all my ripping in an emulator on Amiga. I have plans for repairing my C64, so I can convert the music that won't run properly in the emulator. The first real musical experience I had was when I heard the loader tune to Daley Thompson's Decathlon (still one of my favorites). Later, the Rambo Loader tune really made my jaw drop down on my chest. From that moment, I have been devoted to Martin Galway. Rob Hubbard has never really made it past that level in my consciousness. That does not mean that I don't like other composers too ;-) ******************************************* * Laust Brock-Nannestad * ******************************************* Choosing your fifteen favourite tunes is next to impossible. However, if I was ever stranded on a desert island with nothing but Sidplay or a real C64, these are the SIDs I'd like to have with me: 10 Most Favourite SIDs: ---------------------- "Dulcedo Cognitations" - Chris Hülsbeck "Last Ninja" - Ben Daglish and Anthony Lees "Last Ninja II" - Matt Grey "Glider Rider" - David Whittaker "Mutants" - Fred Gray "Platoon" - Jonathan Dunn "Rambo: First Blood Part II" - Martin Galway "Stormlord" (especially in-game) - Johannes Bjerregaard & Jeroen Tel "Snare" - Martin Walker "W.A.R" - Rob Hubbard 5 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists ----------------------------------------- "Galway-tune" - Che Lalic (Alfatech/Triad) "SurSumTheme" - Mixer/Origo Dreamline "Rocky Star" - Kim Christensen (Future Freak/Dexion) NOTE: only three SIDs are listed as I really had a hard time choosing the last two. Perhaps they will follow. Contributions ------------- Laust's main contributions has been with the STIL. He created the HTML STIL pages, added many new entries, and then later created a STIL-syntax-checker. In addition to helping with the STIL, Laust has identified many incorrect credits and other problems with in HVSC. Comments -------- It will come as no surprise when I say that SID music takes up a large amount of my time in fact a day rarely goes by without Sidplay playing in the background while I work. Ever since I made my first tape recording of tunes years ago I've been comforted and amazed by the diversity of the tunes and the SID chip in general. Especially when you consider the SID's complexity compared to the sound capabilities of other 8-bit systems in the eighties. C64 History ----------- After a brief period with access to a ZX81-clone and a CP/M machine I finally got the thing I wanted: A C64. Some of my first games were Phantoms of the Asteroid and Commando and even back then I knew there was something special about the music in those games - in fact I bought specific games (such as the not too exciting W.A.R) just because it had music by Rob Hubbard. Now how's that for dedication? :-). As the C64 market dwindled, so did my interest in the C64. I kept my C64 on my desk, but used it less and less. Then one day I bought a shareware CD that had Sidplay v1.10 on it. I was ecstatic! - suddenly having the sound of the C64 combined with the convenience (and storage capability) of the PC. I didn't have any tunes but the four built-in ones, but it was enough to keep me going until I found a 500kb pack of assorted tunes on another CD. Soon after that, I got Internet access, which meant the newest Sidplay and the NemeSIDs collection. But NemeSIDs was soon replaced with the HVSC due to its many advantages. Then after HVSC v2.0 was released I got in touch with LaLa and started submitting STIL entries. Following that, the HTML version of the STIL was born. Today, my C64 only gets used once in a while, to play a classic game or tune or the odd demo that won't run well on my emulator. But it still takes up space on my desk and I doubt that will change. It is my C64 after all... -------------------------------------------------- Note, "Less Popular Artists" is perhaps not the best description for what was meant by this category. Basically, what was meant by this was for a list of tunes by either artists who were not known by the average C64 user or a tune by a popular artist that might not be as well known. end of document.