Andrew Fisher gives a work in progress look at volume 2 which his preview of the CD. Check the Articles section to find out more.

A project of the complexity and size of volume 2 is a huge task and inevitably it's not uncommon for delays to occur. Tho the delays have been limited it has a severe knock on effect to the progress of such a CD. Thus the release of Volume 2 is now set for an October release.

Also i have set the R.R.P price at £11.99. This is a £1 increase on volume 1 which unfortunately i have to place due to the increased costs.

SEE THE "JOURNAL" AT THE CD PAGE TO GET THE FULL LOW DOWN!

I just spoke to Darren Melbourne from Ironstone Partners, and I'm now completely happy that they respect the C64 community and are willing to embrace it rather than close it down. Darren himself is a huge C64 fan (he even knows the significance of Martin Galway's SID chip).

Ironstone should release their own press release soon which should clarify matters, but the only people who should worry about getting sued are the people releasing unauthorised Commodore products in the retail chain. That press release had large parts (including the numbers) that were unauthorised by them. Yes, the numbers were fiction.

There should also be a positive development on the C-One very soon, too.

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Tulip Computers, currently the holders of the Commodore brandname, seem to have launched an attack on the Commodore 64 community, in the name of saving it: their aim, reading between the lines of their press release, seems to be to attack all "300" commercial sites using the Commodore brand name (yeah, like there's 300 of them) in pursuit of licencing fees or trying to close them down, and attempt to outlaw the current emulators in favour of their commercial one. They have also stated their aim to create an "official" Commodore web portal which offers pay content: which would presumably mean bullying non-pay-sites into submission.

These moves are being taken by Tulip in the mistaken belief that there are six million active Commodore users out there itching to pay for old games. Tulip (or its partners in this) also mistakenly seems to think that they now have the rights to most of the games for the Commodore 64, again reading from their press release.

Check out the discussion URL on Lemon64 for more details.

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Ever wondered how Huelsbeck's Apidya would sound with a big live orchestra? Here is your chance: Tickets for the first Symphonic Game Music Concert outside of Japan are available now! The world premiere of Merregnon II will be a part of the program, too. To order tickets for the concert then visit: http://www.ticketonline.de/trans/prlist?IDX=9700453 and by visiting the link below you can check out the full performance list.

Well, I'm not sure if there's any love on the boat, but Rob Hubbard is practising for Back in Time Live Brighton by... being a live pianist on a cruise ship! It's an amusing thought that there might be this SID fan on a cruise who suddenly sees Rob Hubbard playing the piano... Rob was an experienced live professional musician before he became a SID legend, and he returned to the biz when he got back from the USA.

13th September, 2003
BIT Live Brighton will feature a concert: the headline act is...

Rob Hubbard - unplugged. Rob plays his own hits live on stage. Also, Press Play on Tape will be performing. The whole thing will culminate in a supergroup of PPOT, Rob, Ben and violinist Mark Knight for the ultimate "Monty on the Run"...

The concert will be MCd by Ben Daglish, and also includes Octave Sounds.

Also, the day will be 15 hours long, with a retro game and music fest from 11am -> 6pm attended by as many composers as we can get: there will also be a display exhibit of Martin Galway's C128D (wot he used to compose most of his SIDs), and his original Ocean source disks and source code.

Tickets will be available to buy in advance this time.

The venue is the Brighton centre, directly on the seafront in Brighton, with all-day catering and air conditioning (http://www.brightoncentre.co.uk)

Other guests so far volunteered include Matt Gray, Tim Follin, Mat Cannon, Jon Dunn, Thomas Detert, Markus Schneider, Ben and Rob of course, and Dave Whittaker. More will undoubtedly follow...

A ticket for the concert and after show boogying will be £10, and a ticket for the all-day event will be £5. The thing costs over £2500 to put on, so we've got to try and break even. Between 6pm and 7pm people will leave the centre temporarily to have some food while we set up the concert.

Throw in a playable SIDstation and a competition section gamesmastered by Mat "Mayhem" Allen (as long as he agrees: I haven't asked him yet! It would only be fair since he always wins the damn competitions!!), and Allan "Commodore Scene" Bairstow showing his awesome collection of Commodore machines doing awesome things, and composers turning up to the remix workshop to jam along to their own SIDs, and you've got a pretty unmissable event, IMHO.

More details when we get the website up. The maximum amount of tickets for the concert will be about 400, though the whole venue can hold 750.

There's even a five-a-side football match on the beach on Friday evening!

Oh yes: worried about how to get to Brighton from Stansted airport? Don't be: there will be SID minibuses run by us which will convey you for a non-profitmaking fare, both there and back on Friday evening and Saturday morning.

Accommodation suggestions will be available on the website when we do that...

Oh yes, and there will also be the launch of "The Galway Project: The Perfect SID Collection", which is an audio CD collection of the highlights of Martin Galway's SIDs, recorded from his actual
SID chip (the only one that plays them as they were meant to be played), and which will include Streethawk (in two versions, with subtunes), a missing tune in Wizball that was commented out of the source code, reminiscences by Martin himself, and other worktunes, as well as the classics. The CD was compiled by Boz, and is the precursor to a DVD next year which will contain every single Martin Galway tune and subtune recorded in 24bit, 48khz (DVD) and 96khz (DVD Audio) along with all his source code, pictures from his bedroom at the time, and other goodies.

Definitely one for the fans :)

Volker Buckow's "Back in Time Live Germany" was held on the 21st, and was a great success, bringing together continental remixers, fans and composers. Dr.Future will be writing his own review as part of the editorials this month, and there are already galleries from happy partygoers! Check them out!

Anco software shot to fame on the 8-bit computers, it's most notable release was the kick-off series of games originally designed by Dino Dini. However Anco being only a small label was forced to close operations last month due to the untimely death of company owner "Anil Gupta". Anco was one of the last surviving Software labels from the days of the c64.