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..."

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 alias
dafunk 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!!!

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.

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"

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.

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

Don't forget to vote for Remixer Of The Year 2006 (and subsequent categories) now, the time is almost up!

The charts selection / filtering section has been redone to be more streamlined and comprehensible. Members can log in and directly compare their own ratings with the public opinion.

Episode 157 of the Linux Link TechShow (a weekly radio style show about GNU/Linux and Technology in general) includes a 90-minute chat with Brian Bagnall, author of "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore". Brian even mentions the SID remixing scene.

Finally, the long-awaited release of the new submission system on AmigaRemix.com is a reality.

The system has been totally rewritten from scratch and should make it easier for both the submitting arranger as well as the spankin' new jury which will judge the entries as they are submitted.

The aim of it all is to get things going on the Amiga-side of the scene and since there are a lot of potent remixers out there, the future is bright and we're looking forward to a new generation of Amiga remixes coming along.

So, if you're a remixer, go ahead and submit your remixes to the site and if you're a listener, look forward to hear some nice stuff in the future.