Links
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.
Links of sites for downloading SID players can be found in the SID Players tab.
| Section | Description |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Computer & Game Music | Other music in computer games that are well worth checking out. |
SID Related
| SID Info, Musicians and History | |
|---|---|
| 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 all together. 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! |
| SID in-depth information site | Here you can find technical information about the SID chip and related info. |
| composers.c64.org | Lots of composer pictures and greetings from some of them in MP3 format, along with favorites 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! |
| SID Covers and Remixes | |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Miscellaneous SID Related | |
|---|---|
| HardSID | The SID 6581/8580 synthesizer. USB SID device with up to 4 real SID chips on board to listen to all your favorite C64 tunes as they were meant to be heard. You can also use the device as a synthesizer. Supports in a wide range of software, such as Vice, CCS64, ACID 64 Player, GoatTracker, JSidplay2. |
| 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. |
| SIDedit | A powerful tool for sid rippers. Discontinued. |
| 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. |
| COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer | The home of the COMPUTE! Gazette SID Player, with information from the creator himself, Craig Chamberlain. |
| 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. |
| MSSIAH (Prophet 64) | MSSIAH is a MIDI cartridge for the Commodore 64. The MSSIAH Sequencer turns your C64 into a TB-303 sequencer. It synchronizes MIDI clock with a simple SYNC 24 interface connected to the user port. |
| Online SID Search | |
|---|---|
| ExoticA HVSC search | Features many search options to search SID files within HVSC and STIL. |
| C64 Music Search | Fast incremental SID search with C64 Jukebox at HardSID.com. |
| SidSearch | HVSC mirror site with HVSC and STIL search / browse feature. |
| SID Theme Search Engine | A musical search engine for SIDs. You can find SID tunes by entering melodies. |
| SidFind | Search page to search SID files within HVSC and STIL. |
| Adam Lorentzon's HVSC Search | Search page to search SID files within HVSC. |
SID Musicians
Thanks to the staff at http://www.composers.c64.org/ for most of the musicians' links.
C64 and Amiga Links
| Commodore Links | |
|---|---|
| The Commodore 64 Scene Database | A site dedicated to gathering as much information as possible about the productions, the groups, the sceners and the events in the Commodore 64 scene. |
| C64.org | Scene directory portal run by Slaygon/Censor, who also gave HVSC its webspace and domain name of our previous site (cheers!) |
| Commodore Info Page | Very up-to-date news site with a lot of information about Commodore. The site can be viewed in English, Dutch and German. |
| HCC Commodore GG | Dutch Commodore User Group site with Commodore news in Dutch and English. |
| 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. |
| DLH's Commodore Archive | Lots of scanned magazines, manuals and books can be found here for all kind of Commodore models. |
| The Demo Dungeon | Web site dedicated to the Commodore 64 and especially the demos that were made for it. |
| -[|]- iAN CooG -[|]- | Cross tools and other c64 related stuff from iAN CooG/HVSC |
| 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!) |
Computer and Game Music Links
| Computer and Game Music Links | |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Atari news and resources | Atari tracking site, news and information on the Atari 8 and 16/32-bit music scene. |
| 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. |
If you have any questions or comments about the High Voltage SID Collection, please first read the information in the FAQ and the Info sections on this site. If you still feel you would like to contact us, by all means, please do. We welcome both positive feedback and constructive criticism. -- signed HVSC Administration