SNDH archive v4.5 released - 355 new/updated SNDH files (1731 subtunes).

Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music.

But in the mid 90′s, BDC of Aura crew became tired of this inelegant system and decided to fix the issue once and for all. He then created the ‘SNDH’ file format. SNDH is actually the original songfile and replaycode with a header bolted on top of the music and replayer. The header has a unified calling interface no matter what type of chip music is hidden beneath it, and it has extended datas about the music.

Download: SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v4.5 (1679)

source: sndh.atari.org

Some new games or tools (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups.

Titles:

• Amaurote +6MD +Pic
• Scramble V1.14 +5H
• Jack the Nipper +4DGFS [pal/90% ntsc]
• Attack the Space
• Labyrinth of Crete 101% &DS &Map [onesided]
• Escape-Man 87 [2015 version]
• Sweatman &E
• China Miner +26D [crazy hack]
• Victor Software Game Pack
• Ghosts’n Goblins Arcade & Commando Arcade SE [easyflash]
• Armer Humin Preview +
• Magic Voice Classics [easyflash]
• Infernal Runner 101% +10DG
• Bionic Ninja +23D Crazy Trainer Hack
• X-Force (Final Sales Version) +6HD
• Abyssonaut (Prize Version) +2DH [seuck]
• Gigablast! (Prize Version) +2H [seuck]
• T-UFO (Prize Version) +2H [seuck]
• Get to the End
• Dark Force Redux +2H [seuck]
• Get to the End [final version]
• Tanium +27D [crazy hack]
• Get to the End +CH
• Get to the End [final version]
• RockMaze +3P &Editor
• Captain Dynamo +11D [crazy hack]
• Pixel Pix +3
• Big Mech Alpha [seuck]
• Big Mech Alpha +2 [seuck]
• Glow Path Basic
• Paperboy USA +3D [ntsc]
• Bigfoot +23D
• Pixel Pix
• Pour Le Merite +2 [seuck]
• Scarabaeus +6DH

Download: All Games in One Archive (3824)

source: csdb.dk

Jean-François DEL NERO (who’s behind the HxC SD Floppy Emulator) recently has released a version of the HxC emulator firmware that is compatible with the STM32 chip used in the Gotek floppy emulators.

This means that the great functionality of the HxC SD emulator is now available on cheaper and more widely available hardware.

The bootloader to convert the Gotek floppy drive in HxC compatible must be purchased on the website HXC 2001 by sending an email to Jean-François DEL NERO. The price of the bootloader is one-off 10 Euro per Gotek that you want to update. Future updates of the software are free and can be made from a USB stick

The HXC Usb (Gotek) firmware supports:

Flashing the Gotek floppy emulator with HxC firmware:

Gotek floppy emulator with HxC firmware (Testing on Amiga Computer):

Gotek floppy emulator with HxC firmware (Testing on Amstrad CPC computer):

Gotek floppy emulator with HxC firmware (Testing on Atari ST Computer):

Gotek Audio Track Loader:

The schematics is here

Components:

• 1 x Buzzer.
• 1 x BC547 or similar bipolar transistor.
• 1 x 1k resistor.

I have to thank Jean-François DEL NERO for the support that he gave me for the bootloader programming.

source: hxc2001.com

In this short article (i don’t like to writing long articles that nobody reads) i share with you the three days spent with some dear friends.

Thursday 25th June at 6:45am i took the train to Rome/Termini, the journey is went well without a hitch on the times. I’m arrived in Rome/Termini at 12:20pm where i met Andrea, from Rome/Termini we took another train that took us to Nettuno.

Arrived in Nettuno we went to eat a sandwich, i was starving :-D, then we went to the “den” of Andrea and we immediately put to work, my initial idea with Andrea
it was to repair more computers possible in three days. In the afternoon we heard at the phone Paolo and Ciro. Thursday evening we went to the Andrea house for the dinner where i have known the wife and the daughter.

Friday morning wake up at dawn and we are back to the “den” to continue the repairs and half morning it came Paolo, could not resist one more day to see me ;-D
the appointment for the barbecue together was scheduled for Saturday, the day after. Friday Afternoon came Ciro and we spent the afternoon together to talking and in the meantime we have made repairs and  testing of computers turned off for over 30 years, we never stopped to work. Friday evening with Andrea and Ciro we went out to eat, the photos of the three dishes speak for themselves :-D

Saturday morning with Ciro we are moved from Anzio to Nettuno where we have continued to do repairs and talk. Saturday afternoon/evening they arrived Paolo and Carlo, i had never met Carlo in person, but it’s as if i knew him always, we write and hear at the phone often. The evening is ended with a large barbecue where we talked not only of “Retro” until around the midnight. i had to go to sleep, the next day there was the train from Rome/Termini at 8:45am to back home.

I have spent three wonderful days with a friends which sharing the same passion. Thanks again to all.

Below a gallery of the photos taken in these three days.

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The High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) is a freeware hobby project which organises Commodore 64 music (also known as SID music) into an archive for both musicians and fans alike.

The work on the collection is done completely in the Team and contributors’ spare time and is proudly one of the largest and most accurate computer music collections known.

This update features (all approximates):

• 798 new SIDs
• 121 fixed/better rips
• 3 repeats/bad rips eliminated
• 412 SID credit fixes
• 67 SID model/clock infos
• 8 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
• 19 tunes from /GAMES/ identified
• 24 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
• 22 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories

Download:

• HVSC Update #63 (1612)
• HVSC Complete #63 (1680)

source: www.hvsc.c64.org

Some new games or tools (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups.

Titles:

• Bumping Buggies HS
• M45 Preview
• Tornado +3ED
• Turn Change Preview 3 +2
• Rebound +2H
• Moonfall (early) Preview
• Dungeon Crawl +2JF [pal/ntsc]
• Dungeon Crawl
• Trojan Warrior +25D [crazy hack]
• Dungeon Crawl +2D
• Ontwerpen in kleur [dutch]
• Bill da Snowman 101% +1JFD [pal/ntsc]
• Master-Word
• Jet Set Willy +10D [crazy hack]
• Ultima IV Remastered V2.2.1
• P0 Snake [sales version 64k] +3PD
• P0 Snake [64kb cartridge]
• Worm! &H [pal/ntsc]
• Crazy Carson Cousins +2
• Rowly +3D
• Break 64 +4M 101%
• Chest Bump
• Hessian V2 Preview +2
• CJ in the USA +27D [crazy hack]
• P0 Snake [sales version 64k] 100% +3PD
• Altair 4 +DMS 101%
• Xykik Preview
• C63 Preview
• Brilliant Maze V1.1 +5HD 100%
• Brilliant Maze V1.1 +5HD
• Hangman’s Hazard +2D
• Brilliant Maze V1.1 [16kb cartridge]
• Ghosts’n Goblins Arcade
• Guardian +1
• Spel
• Car-rac +1
• Airwolf +22D [crazy hack]
• Sankara Stone +S

Download: All Games in One Archive (3660)

source: csdb.dk

This is the official demo party results from Nordlicht 2015 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the CSDB Nordlicht 2015 section for more informations and download.

C64 Demo:

• Fantasmolytic by Censor Design, Oxyron
• Nicht gut, aber ausreichend! by Forunkel64

C64 Music:

• Shapeshifter by dEViLOCk
• Vortex by MultiStyle Labs
• Daydreaming by Genesis Project, MultiStyle Labs

C64 Graphics:

• The Eagle Has Landed by Censor Design, Oxyron
• Legion by Onslaught
• Medussssa by Arsenic, Oxyron

Productions released outside compos:

• Comaland 100% by Censor Design/Oxyron (Demo)

Download: Nordlicht 2015 full Party stuff (1253)

source: csdb.dk