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Warren Pilkington has written a personal account of his experiences at BIT Live 2007 - where a great time was had by all!

That article in full

As usual, the update and the all-in-one packages are available from
http://www.hvsc.c64.org

After this update, the collection should contain 34,127 SID files!

This update features (all approximates):

• 1127 new SIDs
• 19 fixed/better rips
• 8 fixes of PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs
• 8 repeats/bad rips eliminated
• 773 SID credit fixes
• 700 tunes assigned a sidmodel flag
• 15 UNKNOWN demo tunes identified
• 29 UNKNOWN game tunes identified

Main Composers featured in this update:
(Artists marked with NEW are either completely new to the HVSC or they get their own directory in this update)
A-Man, Bart, Richard Bayliss, Bernhard Burgstaller (NEW), Chantal Goret (NEW), CRD, Dexter (NEW), Eco, Fanta, Fox, Gop, Greg, Gregfeel, Harlequin, Heinmuck, Hukka, Image, MAC2, Mac / Radical, Merman, Moogle Charm (NEW), Nastiness Inc., Omoroca (NEW), Pernet, Q-Man, Raze, Rio, Sax, Sharp, Skam (NEW), Slayer, STP Sound System, Tonid (NEW), Topaz, Vintaque, Zeta (NEW)

Source: HVSC Newsletter

Due to a hardware failure, the server at www.slayradio.org is down at the moment. The severity of the problem can't be established until monday, but we'll keep you posted when we know more.

 

EDIT: The server is now back up.

SLAY Radio

Starting off the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany on the 22nd of August, there will be a Symphonic Games Music Concert featuring symphonic renditions of game soundtracks such as StarCraft, Final Fantasy XI, Stranglehold, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Turrican 2 as well as medleys of C64- and Amiga-tunes.

The Amiga-medley will also have a rendition of music from the Pinball games and the author Olof Gustafsson will join the other special guests Allister Brimble, Chris Huelsbeck, Tilman Sillescu and Yuzo Koshiro to sign albums and enjoy hearing their music played live by a massive orchestra.

Concert info

This following weekend, starting off Saturday at 18:00 CET with DJ Skitz and his 24h Show Warmup, nearly all the DJs on SLAY Radio will perform a marathon of shows, stretching over a full 24 hours.

The approach this time is that each DJ will do a 3-hour variation of their regular shows to form a full 24 hour block of radio goodness.

Be sure to tune in and join the DJs for a live chat during the shows at #SLAYRadio on EFNet.

Schedule

Since yesterday evening, Remix.Kwed.Org is back up'n'running on the new server. AmigaRemix.com will be sleeping a bit longer, though, due to some more reconstructions in the backend and to ease the burden on the server a bit while RKO addicts grab their first fixes again.

Messageboard thread

After several days of downtime, there is new hope for the scene's great file hoards. Baffle, who had kindly hosted both sites for years now, is no longer able to keep the pro-bono hosting alive. Thank you for the years of providing a great service to the scene, Baffle!

Both sites are being set up at one of Ziphoid's servers now. On the messageboard, Ziphoid stated: "The current status is that both RKO and AR have been moved successfully, but there still needs to be done quite extensive testing, since the environment is quite a bit different than before."

Messageboard thread

The changes are:

• ADD: Several new Application Menu menu items, which use Windows File Dialog controls for file loading/saving. The equivalent old-style Textual menu items have been retained.

• ADD: Ability to sample a running session as an AVI file (audio + video). AVI files are un-compressed, so are quite big; therefore, these should be re-compressed, using video editing software, for further distribution.

• FIX: Several errors in Textual menu entries.

• ADD: New key-combinations added:
  Alt+K - Insert special C64 key-stroke.
  Alt+Shft+S - Toggles the recording of sound to a WAV file.
  Alt+Shft+V - Toggles the recording of video+sound to an AVI file.

Source: ccs64 Forum