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 some of the
best.

Note:
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As you can see, some of the favourites have been changed, to allow
for an even split, 10 from above and 10 from below /VARIOUS.  However
not everyone has chosen them yet :-(

Also, "less popular artists" should not mean the tune is less well
liked - it is just that that they may have been less well known compared
to say Galway, Hubbard, Tel etc.

Finally, this is now split into Current and Retired members, in order
of them joining the HVSC team.

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Current Members
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* The Shark of International Network of Chaos *
* <shark@dhp.com>                             *
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10 Most Favourite SIDs:
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"Auf Wiedersehen Monty" - Rob Hubbard
"Black Lamp" - Tim Follin
"Green Beret" - Martin Galway
"Knucklebusters" - Rob Hubbard
"Last Ninja" - Ben Daglish
"Nemesis the Warlock" - Rob Hubbard
"Rambo: First Blood Part II" - Martin Galway
"Robocop" - Jonathan Dunn
"Robocop 3" - Jeroen Tel
"Wizball" - Martin Galway

10 Favourite SIDs From the /VARIOUS directories
-----------------------------------------------
"Asphyxia" - Wojciech Radziejewski (Shogoon)
"ATA" - Antti Hannula (Flex)
"Brutality 5" - Ove Oldberg (Bappalander)
"Castle Camelot" - Sren Lund (Jeff)
"Drax Mix" - Michael Nilsson and Stellan Andersson (mITCH & dANE)
"Legend Intro" - Martijn Schutten
"Nibbleman" - Kristian Rsten & Glenn Rune Gallefoss
"Night Rider" - Anders Rodahl (Rage)
"Plutonium" - Morten Kristensen (MSK)
"Sweet and Sour" - Volker Meitz (PRI)

Contributions
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   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
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   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).


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* Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries           *
* Rambones/The Supply Team, 1985-1989 *
* <rambones@get2net.dk>               *
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10 Most Favourite SIDs:
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"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
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"Ode To Galway" - Marco Swagerman (MC)
"Attention" - Christof Mhlan (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?).  Helped with giving several tunes the proper
credits.  Added a few ideas that helped make the collection better.
   
Comments
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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://imr.c64.org/
go into 'C64 persons' and click my name.


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* Adam Lorentzon <d93-alo@nada.kth.se> *
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10 Most Favourite SIDs:
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"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

6 Favourite SIDs From the /VARIOUS directories
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"Compleeto!" - Anders Andren (ATOO)
"Global Conquest 2" - Vincent Voois
"Gloria" - Michael Nilsson & Stellan Andersson (mITCH & dANE)
"Great Kloakkman #3" - Anders Rodahl (Rage/Megastyle)
"Street Skater" - Chris Ammermller (Beat Machine)
"<?>" (Zarda003.sid) - Ari-Pekka Paljakka (Zardax)

4 Other Favourite SIDs from Less Popular Artists
---------------------------------------------------
"Contest Demo" - Rock & FCS / Finnish Gold
"Fifth Axis" - Gilles Soulet
"Omega Man" - Jori Olkkonen (Yip)
"Rocky Star" - Kim Christensen (Future Freak)

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.  Also maintains the up
to date Windows version of Sidplay.

Comments
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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.


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* Wilfred Bos <wbos@worldonline.nl> *
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10 Most Favourite SIDs:
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"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
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"Crooner" - Thomas Mogensen (DRAX)
"Emerald Mine 2" - Oliver Klaewer
"Ode to Galway" - Marco Swagerman (MC)
"P.W. Botha" - Tomas Danko (Gaunt)
"Tina Turner" - Jrg Rosenstiel

Contributions
-------------
Has ripped several tunes and found SIDs from other collections
that weren't part of HVSC.  Provided a few corrected rips.  Helped
find some SID tune credits.  Found several errors in HVSC.

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


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* Kristoffer Johansson <d3johkri@dtek.chalmers.se> *
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10 Most Favourite SIDs:
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"Eliminator" - Jeroen Tel
"FAME (1)" - Michael Hendriks / F.A.M.E.
"Ghouls'n Ghosts" - Tim Follin
"Last Ninja" - Ben Daglish & Anthony Lees
"Nemesis The Warlock" - Rob Hubbard
"Nightdawn" - Johannes Bjerregaard
"Rocky Star" - Kim Christensen (Future Freak)
"Twilight Beyond" - Johannes Bjerregaard
"Vindicator" - Jonathan Dunn
"Wizball" - Martin Galway

10 Favourite SIDs From the /VARIOUS directories:
------------------------------------------------
"Boisterous" - Ole-Marius Pettersen / Prosonix
"Compleeto" - Anders Andren (ATOO)
"Flashbacks" - Ari-Pekka Paljakka (Zardax)
"Kummatti City" - Ari Yliaho (Agemixer) 
"Lars Hoff - 02" - Lars Hoff / Prosonix
"Love (Note-music)" - Wojciech Radziejewski (Shogoon)
"Never trust a stranger" - Bjrn Fogelberg (Knatter)
"Plotting" - Ari-Pekka Paljakka (Zardax)
"Proven Futile" - Ari-Pekka Paljakka (Zardax)
"Ritual II" - Wojciech Radziejewski (Shogoon)

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.


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* LaLa (Imre Olajos, Jr.) <LaLa@C64.org> *
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10 Most Favourite SIDs:
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(note: LaLa's favourite SIDs are also in SIDPlay Lists - get them
       from the URL below)

"Auf Wiedersehen Monty" - Rob Hubbard & Ben Daglish
"Comic Bakery" - Martin Galway
"Commando" - Rob Hubbard
"Knucklebusters" - Rob Hubbard
"Last Ninja" - Ben Daglish & Anthony Lees
"Ocean Loader v3.0" - Peter Clarke
"Parallax" - Martin Galway
"Spellbound" - Rob Hubbard
"Stormlord" (Tune #2) - Johannes Bjerregaard
"Sweet" - Johannes Bjerregaard

10 Favourite SIDs From the /VARIOUS directories
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"Compleeto" - Anders Andren (ATOO)
"Dignified Tune 5" - Ward Selles
"Frazze" - Antti Hannula
"Henning Rokling 02" - Henning Rokling
"Jammin' Loose" - Linus Nielsen (Boogaloo)
"Mixer" - Mixer / Origo Dreamline
"Lars Hoff 03" - Lars Hoff / Prosonix
"Tune 33" Ari-Pekka Paljakka (Zardax)
"<?>" (Zardax.sid) Ari-Pekka Paljakka (Zardax)
"<?>" (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 SID
Hunt Web page, which is where to go to request a tune to be ripped for 
HVSC :-)

Comments
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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


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*   Andreas Varga (mr.sid) <sid@skater.htu.tuwien.ac.at>  *
* <e9426444@stud1.tuwien.ac.at> (as an alternative)       *
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10 Most Favourite SIDs:
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"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

9 Favourite SIDs from the /VARIOUS and /DEMOS directories
----------------------------------------------------------
"Come On Please" - Volker Meitz (PRI)
"For Avantgarde" - Emil Helldin (Red Devil)
"Killers" - Cavi
"La sambe del pasta bolognese" - Sren Lund (Jeff)
"Listen & Learn" - Michael Nilsson and Stellan Andersson (mITCH & dANE)
"Mamba Music" - Guy Shavitt
"Mamba Remix" - Hithouse
"Mystery" - Stein Pedersen / Prosonix
"Snowball Sunday" - Lou Gray

and 1 more from JO..
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"Ultima 1 (Sex n Crime 2)" - 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 TWELVE years ago !!

C64 History
-----------
Laming around in the non-existent Austrian scene. 

mr.sid's web site -> http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426444/

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* Gabriele Priarone (G-Knight) *
* <g.knight@iol.it>            *
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10 Most Favourite SIDs:
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"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 Favourite SIDs From Less Popular Artists
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"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! :)


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* Warren Pilkington (Waz of Zaw Productions) *
*          <wazzaw@freeuk.com>               *
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10 Most Favourite SIDs:
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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 Hlsbeck
"Ghouls 'n' Ghosts" - Tim Follin
"Last Ninja 2" - Matt Gray
"Mutants" - Fred Gray
"Platoon" - Jonathan Dunn
"Thalamusik" - Rob Hubbard (my favourite tune ever)
"Wizball" - Martin Galway

10 Favourite SIDs From the /VARIOUS directories
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"Compleeto" - Anders Andren (ATOO)
"Cyberworld" - Sren Lund (Jeff)
"Dreams' Odyssee Parts 1 and 2" - Volker Meitz (PRI)
"Drum 'n' Bass" - Wolfgang Reszel (Nebula)
"GRG In Cyberspace" - Glenn Rune Gallefoss 
"Happy Hour" - Stefan Konarkowski (Alien)
"Lazy Day" - Johan strand (Zyron)
"Melt Your Brain" - Oliver Klee (Odi)
"No Sleep" - Bjrn Fogelberg (Knatter)
"Zone of Darkness" - Wojciech Radziejewski (Shogoon)

Contributions
-------------
Warren is quite 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 as well as filtering out many a repeat.    

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://home.freeuk.net/wazzaw/ (note the new URL)
                        
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* Inge H.P. ("448" 1985-1991)     *
* <448@c2i.net>                   *
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10 Most Favourite SIDs:
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"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 Hlsbeck
"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 ;-)


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* Laust Brock-Nannestad <laustbn@diku.dk> *
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Choosing your favourite tunes is next to impossible. However, if I
were 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:
-----------------------
"Baby Of Can Guru" - Chris Hlsbeck
"Glider Rider" - David Whittaker
"Last Ninja II" - Matt Gray
"Last Ninja" - Ben Daglish and Anthony Lees
"Mutants"  - Fred Gray
"Platoon" - Jonathan Dunn
"Rambo: First Blood Part II" - Martin Galway
"Snare" - Martin Walker
"Stormlord" (ingame) - Johannes Bjerregaard
"W.A.R" - Rob Hubbard

9 Favourite SIDs from the /VARIOUS and /DEMOS directories
----------------------------------------------------------
"<?>" Henningr.sid - Henning Rokling
"Compleeto!" - Anders Andren (ATOO)
"Digital Force '97" - Johan strand (Zyron)
"Dojostyle" - kros Makrai (Cane)
"Galway-tune" - Che Lilac (Alfatech/Triad)
"Rock This" - Johnny B. and Unknown
"Space Debris" - Stefan Konarkowski (Alien)
"SurSumTheme" - Mixer/Origo Dreamline
"Trimetophrim Ibuprofen" - Warren Pilkington (Waz)

NOTE: only nine SIDs are listed as I really had a hard time choosing
the last one. Perhaps it 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 and
as of Update #16, is now the new STIL Administrator.  

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 SID
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. However, the NemeSIDs collection was soon replaced 
with the High Voltage Sid Collection, 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... 

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* Jan Krolzig <Jan.Krolzig@netsurf.de> *
****************************************

10 Most Favourite SIDs:
-----------------------
"Cybernoid II" - Jeroen Tel
"Dance at Night" - Chris Hlsbeck
"Hysteria" - Fred Gray
"Katakis" - Chris Hlsbeck
"The Last Ninja" - Ben Daglish & Anthony Lees
"Mission of Mercy" - Peter Clarke
"Ocean Loader v2" - Martin Galway
"R-Type" - Chris Hlsbeck & Ramiro Vaca
"Sanxion" - Rob Hubbard
"Snare" - Martin Walker

10 Favorite SIDs from the /VARIOUS directories
-----------------------------------------------
"Circling Vulture" - Lars Hoff / Prosonix
"Hellraiser" - Mixer
"Mamba Remix" - Hithouse
"Reaction" - Henning Rokling
"Super Nibbly" - Karl Sommer (MC Lord)
"Think Now" - Markus Mller
"Torture II End" - Tracker
"Toyballs" - Tim Kleinert
"Wozzle" - Lars Hutzelmann (The Blue Ninja)
"Zybernix" - Kaspar Dahlqvist & Jakob Mellander / Nordic Beat

Contributions
-------------
Jan provides HVSC with many a quality rip including many a requested
tune from the SID Hunt.   He also unearthed the whole truth about many
of the Magic Disk and Game On tunes by Thomas Detert as well as
providing useful credit and STIL information.

Comments
--------
After seeing a C64 first time, I fell in love with it. "Katakis"
was running and it was not only the perfect program or the astonishing
graphics, which made me shout for joy.  No, it was the great tunes,
including nice sound and great compositions, which impressed me. A new
period of time started for me and during the following years SID music
became an important part of my life. There is no doubt that that will
never change.

###############
Retired Members
###############

**************************************************
* Darren, Bod/Talent <darren@talent.demon.co.uk> *
**************************************************

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) <sidplay@geocities.com> *
*******************************************************

10 Most Favourite SIDs:
-----------------------
Comment: Since I keep a list of my personal top 300+ sidtunes, making a
         selection of only 20 out of 300+ was a very hard decision.
         Apart from that, my favourite sids change over the time. Here
         is an alphabetically sorted selection.

"Baby of Can Guru" - Chris Hlsbeck
"Connect 4" - Megablast / Audial Arts
"Dignified" - Reyn Ouwehand
"Game On Issue 11/89" - Lords of Sonics
"G.I. Hero" - Jeroen Tel
"Lightforce" - Rob Hubbard
"Platou" - Markus Schneider & Jens Blidon
"Rambo" - Martin Galway
"Startrash" - Ramiro Vaca & Chris Hlsbeck
"Sweet" - Johannes Bjerregaard

10 Favorite SIDs from the /VARIOUS directories
-----------------------------------------------
"<?>" (Rage_03.sid) - Anders Rodahl (Rage) / Megastyle
"C-demo tune" - Henning Rokling
"Compleeto!" - Anders Andren/Moz(IC)Art
"Galway-tune" - Che Lalic (Alfatech) / Triad
"Martinism" - Ari-Pekka Paljakka (Zardax)
"Microwave" - Anders land (Zonix)
"PayDay - Ingame tune" - Tammo Hinrichs (KB)
"SYS4096" - Juha-Matti Hilpinen (AMJ/Side B)
"Think Now..." - Markus Mller
"Zybernix" - Kaspar Dahlqvist & Jakob Mellander / Nordic Beat

Contributions
-------------
The author of Sidplay and the libsidplay Library, without which the
collection wouldn't probably be here.  As well as that, he:
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, and indeed wrote the current
source to the update tool.

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.
