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06/02/2007
ROTY 2007 Voting begins!
From today, voting for 2007's best remixes and artists has begun!
The most noteable difference to 2006's voting is that the number of entries into your personal ROTY lists in each category is not limited any more. The balance of points per rank remains unchanged, entries on rank #5 and below receive the same amount of points.
The main ROTY voting page has a new AJAX user interface. It is more user friendly, and will validate your entries on the fly.
The process of making ROTY entries in a tune's voting box remains unchanged. The only difference is that entries will not vanish if they slide below #5, but simply move further down in the list, receiving equal score.
Happy ROTYing 2007!
PS: please report technical or conceptual difficulties.
The most noteable difference to 2006's voting is that the number of entries into your personal ROTY lists in each category is not limited any more. The balance of points per rank remains unchanged, entries on rank #5 and below receive the same amount of points.
The main ROTY voting page has a new AJAX user interface. It is more user friendly, and will validate your entries on the fly.
The process of making ROTY entries in a tune's voting box remains unchanged. The only difference is that entries will not vanish if they slide below #5, but simply move further down in the list, receiving equal score.
Happy ROTYing 2007!
PS: please report technical or conceptual difficulties.
ROTY Voting 2007
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Recommend06/02/2007
RKO and AmigaRemix down
The server that hosts both Remix.Kwed.Org and AmigaRemix sites is currently offline. Right now, there is no estimation when they will be available again.
UPDATE: both sites are operational again.
UPDATE: both sites are operational again.
23/01/2007
ROTY 2006 in-depth report
Warren Pilkington (aka Waz) has written a detailled article about the Remixer Of The Year 2006 awards, commenting on winners and follow-ups. Check it out and relive the "scene's Oscar night"! 
23/01/2007
HVSC #46 is out!
From the HVSC team:"The drought is over! After the longest delay EVER between two updates we are back with another bunch of 1000+ SID tunes that bring the whole collection to a whopping 33,000 tunes! I´m confident it was worth waiting for, as the new updates has some surprises inside.
The whole collection is undergoing a massive directory structure change. So if you´re downloading the update packs, be prepared for a rather long time it takes for the update tool to complete. After it has reached 60% things are becoming dog slow, but don´t mistake that with a freeze or crash. It´s doing its job, moving almost every tune in HVSC to its new location. Go outside for a walk and when you´re back you´ll have a new and shiny HVSC on your harddisk.
For the full text of the update announcement, please read here..."
The High Voltage SID Collection21/01/2007
Remixer Of The Year 2006 results in!
During the ROTY 2006 show hosted by The Dutchies, the winners of the Remixer Of The Year 2006 awards have been announced. Sebastian Bachliñski alias moog won a stunning 3 awards, that's "Best c64 Remix", "Best Newcomer" with a tremendous majority, and the main award "Remixer Of The Year", with Dejan Subotin aliasdafunk coming in a close second.
Last year's big winner Makke won #1 for "Best Veteran".
Firefox's "Sleepwalk" was voted for best Amiga remix, Binster's "Ghouls And Ghosts Poltergeist Mix" won "Most Innovative Remix".
In the category "Radio Personality Of The Year" Ziphoid managed to supersede Boz, who came in second this time.
Please check out the full list, more winners there! Congratulations everyone!
Thanks go to the Dutchies for making a fantastic ROTY show, to the staff for the voting analyses, and of course to all Remix64 voters as well as the remixers, composers, radio hosts and everyone I forgot who're making it all possible. You're a great community!!!
16/01/2007
Producer "Timbaland" in unauthorised SID usage allegations
As has been reported on the forum last october, the track "Do It" on Nelly Furtado's album "Loose" appears to contain complete parts of the SID tune "Acid Jazz" by Glenn Rune Gallefoss (GRG). "Do It" has been produced by the famous hip-hop producer Timbaland. Whether or not Nelly Furtado or the label were aware of the potential problems of this apparent borrowing is unclear.
GRG's tune has been released in 2002, and is itself a sanctioned cover version of the tune "Acidjazzed Evening" by Tempest (Janne Suni), which won the Assembly music competition in 2000.
The original composer and remixer state that neither the record company nor the Producer approached them for permission, leading to an upsurge in media interest in the story, helped in no small way by the Composer himself. Timbaland, being on tour, cannot yet be reached for comment, though one of his staff has hinted publicly on digg.com that when he comes back from tour he might join the discussion. Join the discussion at our messageboard.
GRG's tune has been released in 2002, and is itself a sanctioned cover version of the tune "Acidjazzed Evening" by Tempest (Janne Suni), which won the Assembly music competition in 2000.
The original composer and remixer state that neither the record company nor the Producer approached them for permission, leading to an upsurge in media interest in the story, helped in no small way by the Composer himself. Timbaland, being on tour, cannot yet be reached for comment, though one of his staff has hinted publicly on digg.com that when he comes back from tour he might join the discussion. Join the discussion at our messageboard.
09/01/2007
C64Audio.com CD tracks now on Remix64
From today on, a third category to Remix64's existing C64 and Amiga categories has been added: Tracks available at:
Consequentially, you will now be able to vote, shout for, and review remixes that have been published there in the past and future. So fire up your CDs and start voting, a great opportunity to give something back to the arrangers and composers.
Oh, and if you have arranged some of the tunes yourself, you will also be able to publish background information for them at "MyRemix64 -> Edit tune infos"
Consequentially, you will now be able to vote, shout for, and review remixes that have been published there in the past and future. So fire up your CDs and start voting, a great opportunity to give something back to the arrangers and composers.
Oh, and if you have arranged some of the tunes yourself, you will also be able to publish background information for them at "MyRemix64 -> Edit tune infos"
07/01/2007
ROTY voting is closed!
There you go. The voting for the ROTY Awards 2006 is now closed. We're currently counting the votes and preparing the ROTY Awards Show that will be aired at 20:00 CET on Sunday, 21st of January 2006 on SLAY Radio.
The show will be hosted by the fresh and upcoming DJs of the Double Dutch Friday shows. The main hosts will be Erwin 'Tron' Beekveld and Marcel Donné and to an 80% certainty, a third host, namely Reyn Ouwehand, will also join. Expect this show to give you some hours worth of pure aural pleasure when the Dutchies gives you a rundown of what has happened remixwise in the year of 2006 when it comes to contributions from remix.kwed.org, c64audio.com, amigaremix.com and of course remix64.com.
We thank you all for your votes and for helping us out to make these ROTY Awards the biggest so far.
Now, set your alarm clocks to 19:55 CET on the 21st of Jan and be prepared for the Dutch flooding your airwaves with the best and greatest remixes of 2006 in the great C64 and Amiga community we have going on here.
The show will be hosted by the fresh and upcoming DJs of the Double Dutch Friday shows. The main hosts will be Erwin 'Tron' Beekveld and Marcel Donné and to an 80% certainty, a third host, namely Reyn Ouwehand, will also join. Expect this show to give you some hours worth of pure aural pleasure when the Dutchies gives you a rundown of what has happened remixwise in the year of 2006 when it comes to contributions from remix.kwed.org, c64audio.com, amigaremix.com and of course remix64.com.
We thank you all for your votes and for helping us out to make these ROTY Awards the biggest so far.
Now, set your alarm clocks to 19:55 CET on the 21st of Jan and be prepared for the Dutch flooding your airwaves with the best and greatest remixes of 2006 in the great C64 and Amiga community we have going on here.
05/01/2007
WinUAE 1.3.4 Released
Release 1.3.4 of WinUAE (The Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator for Windows) has just been released. It's mainly a bugfix release, but with some improvements as well. UAE is arguably the best Amiga emulator for many systems, WinUAE being the Windows version. If you miss playing with your female friend (in the computer sense, of course!), download this!Full update list:
Bugs fixed:
- Improved bsdsocket emulation stability
- Winuaeclipboard crash fix
- Windows Vista compatibility problems fixed
- Filesystem flag handling on FAT volumes
- Page Down-key Input panel remapping works properly
- Sound system improved
- ECS Denise/AGA borderblank feature works properly
- Dualcore/SMP random freezes properly fixed
New features:
- Improved emulation of AGA sprites outside display window
- uaeserial.device introduced. Multi-port serial device, unit numbers are directly mapped to PC serial ports (unit 0 = COM0, 1 = COM1 etc..)
- Improved serial port detection, virtual devices also supported
- Improved Catweasel MK3/4 support without Windows driver installed (requires TVicPort, http://www.entechtaiwan.com/dev/port/index.shtm)
- Improved debugger features
- Sound system is not anymore reinitialized when losing/gaining focus
- 1M (1024KB) ROM image support
- Sound volume configuration setting also sets AHI audio volume (previously was Paula audio only)
- Custom chipset interrupt timing improved
04/01/2007
ROTY voting final spurt
Don't forget to vote for Remixer Of The Year 2006 (and subsequent categories) now, the time is almost up!