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                        T H E   H I G H   V O L T A G E
                          S I D   C O L L E C T I O N

                                  release 3.1

                                  May 15, 1999

Compiled by:
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    Warren Pilkington (Waz of Zaw Productions) <wazzaw@freeuk.com>
    Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries (Rambones/TST) <rambones@get2net.dk>             
    The Shark of INC <shark@dhp.com>
    Michael Schwendt (The Mage) <sidplay@geocities.com>
    Adam Lorentzon <d93-alo@nada.kth.se>
    Wilfred Bos <wbos@worldonline.nl>
    Kristoffer Johansson <d3johkri@dtek.chalmers.se>
    LaLa (Imre Olajos, Jr.) <LaLa@C64.org>
    Andreas Varga (mr.sid) <sid@skater.htu.tuwien.ac.at>
    Gabriele Priarone (G-Knight) <g.knight@iol.it>
    Darren, Bod/Talent <darren@talent.demon.co.uk>
    Inge Hie Pedersen ("448") <448@c2i.net>
    Laust Brock-Nannestad <laustbn@diku.dk>  
    
          -> Members of the C64 Historical Preservation Society! <-
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER
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All of the tunes available in the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC) are
copyrighted and owned by the original authors/software companies.  Use for
profit would be subject to law.  Do not offer any such contributions to the
creators of this collection for none will be accepted.


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CONTENTS:
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[1] Introduction
    [1-1] Brief SID History
    [1-2] The HVSC Project
    [1-3] The HVSC Philosophy
[2] Collection Structure
[3] How Can I Help?
    [3-1] Contributing SIDs
    [3-2] SID Credits
    [3-3] Identifying Mistakes
    [3-4] Ripping SID tunes
[4] Update Information
[5] Included Documents
[6] Acknowledgments

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CHAPTER [1]: Introduction
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[1-1] Brief SID History
=======================

What exactly is a Commodore 64 (C64) SID tune?  Basically it is music
originally generated on the C64, a popular family computer from the '80s.
The C64 was undoubtedly ahead of its time offering many advanced features
for a relatively cheap price.  One particular advanced feature on the C64 was
the Sound Interface Device (SID) chip developed in 1982 by Bob Yannes.  The
remarkable capabilities of this chip caused a revolution in the computer music
industry.  The chip was so revolutionary in fact that Byte Magazine named the
chip one of the Top 20 most important chips in computing history (see Byte's
20th Anniversary tribute edition, 1996).

Although the design of the chip was quite a feat, the true test of technology
is what people can do with it.  The early musical pieces on the C64 were
impressive for that time frame, but the hidden potential of the chip
wasn't heard until 1985.  Composers began to use audio "illusions" that
tricked the ear into hearing more voices than the three-voice chip actually
had.  The music continued to progress in 1987 when musicians began to
utilize a fourth voice which was dedicated for samples.  Although many other
improvements to SID music have been made over the years, none were as
important as the two just mentioned.

More importantly, though, was the release of this technology to the C64
public world.  Back then, composers had to also program their own tools
otherwise the composers would have to create their music using primitive
software.  Due to a competitive game musician market, however, musicians were
reluctant to share their knowledge.  Through reverse-engineering and some
eventual leaks, the C64 public soon utilized some of these advanced music
tools creating a boom in the amount of quality music available.

Throughout the 1990s, the C64 game industry may have ceased to a halt, but 
there are still many musicians who compose for demo groups, who still enjoy
the challenge of squeezing as much as they can out of the SID chip.  Most
of these new tunes will hold special memories for people, but in a different
way in that you'll remember them from demo X or Y rather than as a game 
soundtrack.

[1-2] The HVSC Project
======================

The HVSC Project is an attempt to accurately archive the most popular C64
SIDs into one complete collection.  The project was started in May of 1996
when a few ambitious people decided to merge the many SIDs collections
available on the Internet into one masterpiece.  The previous SID
collections contained many bugged SIDs, repeats, and inaccurate credits
not to mention being highly disorganised.  Thus this task was not a simple
"copy & paste" unfortunately.  An additional challenge for us dealt with
being compatible with other platforms.  The only way one true collection can
exist is if we remain compatible with the major operating systems currently
in use.

As we merged the collections we began to realize that many famous SIDs were
missing.  This led to the HVSC crew and many others to begin searching
various C64 software archives for more SIDs to rip.  Due to this effort the
collection began to grow at an enormous rate.  As we progressed, we then
noticed that many inconsistencies and questions started to surface.  For
example, we would find a music credited to a famous composer yet the style
of the music was completely different than his normal style.  One sure way
of solving these mysteries was to contact the original composers.  Over time
we gradually tracked several of them down and received a tremendous amount of
information.  As you may have figured out, we are SID archeologists patiently
piecing together SID history with only fragments of information.

You may be asking yourself, "Why go through so much effort for SID music?"
Only a person who never owned a C64 would ask such a question.  Many people
long to hear these old, classic tunes that they enjoyed in their youth.
You don't believe us?  Look at the amount of Television sites that recall
many a program that as a child you treasured and how much memories you get
from that.  With SID music, this is true equally if not more so.
Thankfully with the abundance of SID emulators this is now possible.  What
was thought to be lost is now found.  Let the tears of joy proceed as you
listen to perhaps the most accurate and comprehensive computer music
collection in existence.

* SID emulators are available for many operating systems such as Linux,
  MacOS, BeOS, Atari Falcon, Windows (3.1, 95, 98, NT), MSDOS, AmigaOS,
  OS/2, etc.

  For a complete list of supported OSs with links see:

    The HVSC Page: http://www.hvsc.c64.org/

[1-3] The HVSC Philosophy
=========================

The HVSC is a free-ware collection.  As tradition with most free-ware
projects, the organisers maintain the project in their free time.  In order
to help the HVSC crew keep their sanity, we expect everyone helping the
project to avoid burdening the maintainers with mundane tasks.  What exactly
do we mean by this?  Well, basically we expect that if anyone emails us with
comments, SIDs, questions, etc., that they have first put forth some effort
so that we do not have to ourselves.  It is all very well stating that
certain tunes were composed by a certain composer, but if you can also submit
any worthwhile information to support your statement, then we can check this
for ourselves as well.  One must realise that a tremendous and painstaking
amount of man-hours have gone into the project.  In order for the collection
to continue on, we cannot continue to put forth as much time.  Thus, we ask
that you take on some of the burden.  Don't let that word "burden" scare you
too much -- we are only talking about a small amount of work here.

Here are some general, friendly rules to keep in mind:

* Every SID you submit _must_ follow the HVSC credit standard (see Section
  3-2). 

* Verify claims you make about a SID being bugged either by loading the
  original tune on a C64 or on a C64 emulator.  Also, if tunes are missing
  from a SID, then please let us know which ones (see the BUGLIST.txt file
  for more information.)

* Verify any credit changes you submit either with the composer himself or
  by loading the actual software.

In general, the messages are VERIFY and STANDARDISE.

Unfortunately, if you do not follow these simple rules we will either ignore
the email or you will experience a long delay until the submitted changes
take place.  We hope that we are not coming across as rude, but as we have
already noted, we have spent years on this collection verifying its
correctness.  Further, we have spent many a day correcting and re-correcting
the credits of SIDs so that we can also serve as a vault of information of
SID music.  If people do not work with the same level of precision as we
would like them to do the collection will take a regressive step.

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CHAPTER [2]: Collection Structure
---------------------------------

There are several ways in which most SID collections have been organised.
To name a few, by Author's first name, by categories such as demos and games,
or to have a simple rat's nest of SIDs.  We have chosen to arrange the
collection by the author's last name or by the author's alias if it was used
more frequently.  In addition, we have a two level hierarchy scheme where the
more famous and professional composers are grouped above the demo composers.
This no way indicates the quality of composition.  Finally, we usually only
give composers their own directory when we have five or more tunes available
from them.  This then makes it a little easier for you to locate the
composer.

Below are a some comments about a few special directories:

/DEMOS - For tunes found in demos in which the artist has less than five
         tunes.  

/DEMOS/UNKNOWN - For tunes found in demos in which the artists are unknown.

/DOCUMENTS - If you are reading this document, then most likely you have
             already figured out what this directory is for.  It also keeps
             an archive of all the update data files and information texts.

/GAMES/X-X - For games first released in which the artist has less than four
             tunes.  Game tunes with unknown artists go here as well (sadly, 
             many an older C64 game had no composer information and we
             usually have had to contact the programmers themselves also to
             verify)
              
/VARIOUS - As mentioned above, this is where mostly demo composers from
           post-1992 or lesser known composers reside.  Below is the
           algorithm we use to decide where the composer goes.

 (1) If the artist has no tunes made in 1992 or earlier,
     go to step #4
 (2) If the artist has game tunes (3 must be made in 1992 or earlier)
     above Various
     else go to step #3
 (3) If the artist was a famous demo composer in 1992 or earlier
     above Various
     else go to step #4
 (4) Below Various

Note that as of HVSC 3.1, /VARIOUS is split into four subdirs, A-F, G-L, M-R and
S-Z to make the collection manageable.  Knowing the composers' handle should 
reduce your search time.

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CHAPTER [3]: How Can I Help?
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[3-1]: Contributing SIDs
========================

We love to receive new SIDs for the HV SID Collection.  Of specific
interest are tunes from games, mainly because the game tunes bring back
more memories for the people that played them and they were commercially
available, but we'll take anything you have unless the tunes are lacking
musical skill (subjective).  Here are some other items we are looking for:

  * Complete collections directly from the composers (this is most ideal
    as they will usually have all the information we require, too)

  * Loading/Intro tunes used in games.  These are rare since crackers
    would often not include the tunes along with the cracks.  In particular,
    cassette loading themes would often not make it in a crack.

  * SIDs already in the HV SID Collection, but with additional sub-tunes.
    SIDs with additional sound effects are okay, but we prefer SIDs
    with more tunes instead.  The reasoning behind this is that the extra
    tunes would have memories from the game for people (particularly any
    game complete tunes).

  * Fixes of SIDs already in the HV SID Collection.  We have found
    several tunes that start at the wrong location, have missing voices,
    with bad samples, etc.  Do if at all possible check them on a C64 first.

  - We DON'T want any Compute Gazette SID tunes *unless* you find a few
    that are exceptionally good.  We have already listened to NemeSIDs
    #18-#19 and have rejected around 99% of those.  The only Compute tunes 
    generally allowed in HVSC are those which were featured in games.

  - We DO NOT, under any circumstances, require any more tunes from Vibrants
    members _except_ MSK.  The HVSC team have all the Vibrants' SID tune
    archives from their website, and we are in constant contact with JCH, and
    he will be sure to send us any more he may find.

  - You will notice groups of tunes where there will be a gap in order.
    These gaps usually do not mean that we are missing these tunes, but 
    rather we have found them repeated elsewhere.
   
  - We also DO NOT want any SID collections from the Internet unless you
    are pretty certain none of the tunes are in HVSC.  HVSC will most
    likely already have all these SIDs.  If you send us collections from
    the Internet we expect you to eliminate the tunes we already have
    and make the credits adhere to the HVSC credit standard.   

  - Further, we DO NOT want any C64 tune that is just one looped sample
    playing over and over again.  Unfortunately around 1987-88 there were
    a spate of sample-only tunes that had one 20 second long sample 
    either playing once or infinitely.  If in any doubt, ask us first.

If you have SIDs and would like to send them to us, there are several
methods in which this can be achieved.  We prefer them to be emailed as an
included attachment (preferred) or to be uuencoded.  There are other
possibilities so feel free to email us and we can arrange what ever is most
convenient.  Note, do not forget to adhere to the HVSC credit standard (see
below for more information).

Please also DO NOT send any attachment that is more than 500KB without
mailing us first to let us know and that you have confirmation from us it is
okay to send.  Unfortunately, a lot of phone companies' pricing structures
mean that we have to prioritise our time on line to this effect.
  
Please mail them to _both_ of the people below:

Warren Pilkington <wazzaw@freeuk.com>
Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries (Rambones/TST) <rambones@get2net.dk>

You can also if you wish snail mail the SIDs to us on 3.5" disk.  Contact us
and we are sure we can arrange something for you.

And, if you have the data on a C64 disk, but do not have the file transfer
capabilities to transfer C64 files to your PC, contact _both_ the people above
and we can recommend someone who may be willing to help in the conversion task.


[3-2]: SID Credits
==================

For those of you that rip, below is the standard for labelling SIDs.  The
standard should be strictly followed.  If a few rare cases pop up in which
you are unsure how to handle, just do the best you can or mail us first to
discuss the credits.  We can always advise you if need be.

   SID Credits Standard
   --------------------

   NAME      : <TITLE>
   AUTHOR    : <FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME> (<ALIAS>)
   COPYRIGHT : <FOUR_DIGIT_YEAR> <COMPANY or AUTHOR or GROUP>

   Fill in any unknown field with a <?>, apart from the COPYRIGHT (see below)
   Place a maximum of 31 printable characters per field for compatibility
   reasons.
   -----------------------------

   Examples:

      <All information is completely known>

      NAME      : Hysteria
      AUTHOR    : Fred Gray
      COPYRIGHT : 1987 Software Projects

      <Author and Company are unknown>

      NAME      : Night Racer
      AUTHOR    : <?>
      COPYRIGHT : 1988 <?>

      <Author is thought to be known with a *strong* degree of certainty>

      NAME      : Cheapskate
      AUTHOR    : David Whittaker <?>
      COPYRIGHT : 1989 Firebird

      <COPYRIGHT date is not exactly known and crack intro has a date or>
      <you know an approximate copyright date.  Dates in crack intro, by>
      <the way, can often be extremely inaccurate compared to the actual>
      <copyright date of the game.                                      >

      NAME      : Deep Strike
      AUTHOR    : Rob Hubbard
      COPYRIGHT : 198? Durrell

      Here is a list of how the COPYRIGHT year is handled for various
      cases:

      198? - tune is made in the '80s
      199? - tune is made in the '90s
   1988-89 - exact year in which tune was made is not known, but it is
             known that the tune was made in this range.
      19?? - tune was made in the 20th century.  :)


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   SID Credit Pointers
   -------------------
   (1) Rippers: ABSOLUTELY DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME/ALIAS IN THE SID CREDITS!  

   (2) You should be at least 80% certain of the field you are guessing.
       To put incorrect credits rather than a <?> would forever ruin your
       reputation as a serious SID collector. :)  When in doubt, at least
       follow the doubtful information with a <?>.

   (3) Just because a tune uses another author's famous music routine, that
       is not enough to signify with certainty that the tune is by that
       author.  Sometimes authors lent their routine for another to use.
       Other times the routine was used without permission.  Again, please
       use <?> if not certain.  

   (4) Don't make up titles (e.g., TITLE: This Tune ROCKS!).  If you are
       ripping the tune from a demo in which the music was specifically
       made for that demo, then you can use the demo's name as the title,
       provided the composer did not give the tune a name.  Often the first
       few characters of the tune reveal the name, so please do check when
       ripping.

   (5) DO NOT PUT A SPACE AFTER THE '=' CHARACTER IN THE SID HEADER!
       (A space should not be the first character of any credit field)

   (6) Try to follow standard English capitalisation rules when inserting
       the titles into the SID fields.  Examples:

          The Way of the Exploding Fist {correct}
          The Way Of The Exploding Fist {incorrect}

       Note that if the composer intends some of words in the title to be in
       lower case, then comply with the composer's wishes (but let us know).

   (7) Normally, you should make the default tune of the SID the first tune
       you would first hear when running the game/demo.  This is either the
       cassette or disk loading theme (if there is one) or the title tune of
       the game, or the first tune of a demo.

   (8) We prefer to have the musician's real name in the AUTHOR field.  If
       possible, we like to have both alias and real name for demo tunes.
       The author's real name should precede his handle.
       Standard -> <AUTHOR's REAL NAME> (HANDLE)

       Examples:

          Torben Hansen (Metal)   {correct}
          Torben "Metal" Hansen   {incorrect}

       At minimum, the name that the composer used in the game/demo should
       be in the credits.  Only if there is enough room should you put the
       his real name or alias.  Note also that you should not put the
       composer's group name in the AUTHOR field.  Either put such info in
       the COPYRIGHT line or do not add the info at all.

   (9) At a minimum, make sure to get the C64 publishers in the copyright
       line for games.  If room is available, feel free to add additional
       information such as the arcade publishers.  DO NOT assume that the
       programming team would have published the game themselves.  We do
       have access to Zzap! 64 reviews indexes, various large collections of
       original C64 games that we check and double check to make sure.

  (10) The documentation that is included with SIDPlay includes a large
       quantity of information about how to get C64 tunes working with
       SIDPlay.  Further, you will find other documents related to the area
       of SIDs including SID header information at the SIDPlay homepage.

       SIDPlay homepage - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/


[3-3]: Identifying Mistakes
===========================

We know that there still exists several mistakes within the HV SID
Collection and we would appreciate any help in correcting the mistakes.
(After all, we are only humans who run this collection in our spare time.)
In addition, we also would like to have missing information in the SID
tune credits (i.e., filling in the <?>'s).  If you have some corrections
or some additional information, no matter how insignificant, let us know.

Please mail to _both_ of the people below:

  Warren Pilkington <wazzaw@freeuk.com>
  Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries (Rambones/TST) <rambones@get2net.dk>

Before you mail us, please verify the information you are sending
by either loading the game/demo yourself or contacting the original
composer.  We have squashed many common beliefs as to who _really_
composed several tunes.  You might be surprised to see one of your
favorite tunes now with a different author (the correct one we hope).
This is why we suggest you first verify the information you plan to
send us.

Further, we would like to mention that you should not use C64 emulators
to compare to the sound of SIDPlay or to identify mistakes with tunes in
the HV SID Collection.  Ideally, you should play the music on a real C64
and if then you determine that the sound of the rip is not right, you have
a valid complaint.  There are few instances, however, where a C64 emulator
can be used to show that a sid tune in HV SIDs is a bad rip.  Such cases
would include a tune with missing samples or a tune with missing voices.

As yet, most C64 emulators do not emulate the SID filter at all (CCS64, the
most popular C64 emulator, C64S, and PC64.) and due to the variance of
filters between C64 machines (up to 20%) you may hear a slightly different
filter setting in HVSC (this can be adjusted in Sidplay).  Please bear this
in mind.

[3-4] Ripping SID tunes
=======================

    Much information about ripping is provided at the SIDPlay web site.

	http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/

	(click the 'Info' link)

    *Note, ripping SIDs requires some assembly language knowledge.  Thus,
     ripping SIDs is not always an easy task (but it isn't always hard,
     either).  The point we are trying to make is that if you do not plan
     to rip the SID the correct way, then do not even bother ripping the
     SID.  In particular, do not cut off the end of the music data by 2-3
     bytes, as this often means that the SID will fall out of synch either
     in a portion of the tune, or on restart.

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CHAPTER [4]: Update Information
-------------------------------

The HV SID Collection will be constantly maintained by providing
zipped update files.  These updates will add new tunes to your HV SID
Collection so that you will always have the most accurate SID collection
around.  To handle deletions, renaming, moving, etc. of files, we
will also provide a 'sweeper' program that upon execution will clean
up your collection for you.  Isn't automation wonderful?

 *************************************************************************
 *     It is therefore _important_ that you keep the HVSC structure and  *
 * filenames as is, otherwise the sweeper will fail to work properly.    *
 *************************************************************************

The updates will be announced at the HVSC web page as well as
other locations.  There is no set time as to when the updates will be
available.  The frequency of updates will depend on the amount of new tunes
and corrected information we receive.  The current rate of updating is every
two to three months, but as we now have 10,000+ SID files, the likelyhood of
finding more does diminish with every update.

The HVSC Page:  http://www.hvsc.c64.org/

Also, if you wish to be added to the HVSC Update Announcement list, which
means you get an email the moment the URL above is updated announcing the 
new HVSC Update release, then please email Warren Pilkington 
<wazzaw@freeuk.com> placing 'Add Me To HVSC Update Announcement List'
in the subject line or use the form at the HVSC web page.

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Chapter [5]: Included Documents
-------------------------------

The following lists the documents that reside with HV SIDS (/DOCUMENTS):

   BUGLIST.TXT  - A list of bugged SIDs in HV SIDs.  Hopefully you'll see 
                  less entries after each update. (We do try and add as many
                  fixes as possible.)
               
   HV_SIDS.FAQ  - Answers to frequently asked questions about the collection.
                  You should read this before emailing the HVSC creators
                  with questions.

  MUSICIANS.TXT - A list of most of the musicians who ever composed more than
                  2-3 SIDs on the C64.  We would appreciate any help in
                  fixing errors in this list.  Further, we would also like to
                  know artist's real names for the sake of possibly
                  identifying other tunes by these artist.  That is, some
                  artist composed tunes under an alias as well as their real
                  name (e.g., Neil Baldwin = Demon).

   STIL.FAQ     - STIL Frequently asked questions and STIL format issues are
                  discussed in this file.  Further, a list of STIL HEROes are
                  in this file too.  Do you have what it takes to be a STIL
                  HERO?

   STIL.TXT     - A text document listing information about the SIDs in the
                  HV SIDs Collection such as original composer's name,
                  comments from the SID composers, and interesting trivia.

   UPDATExx.HVS - A list of fixes and additions that are performed to each
                  update.  If you want to know exactly why certain SIDs were
                  replaced, this file will likely have the answer.  The xx
                  in the file name will increase sequentially as new updates
                  are released.


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Chapter [6]: Acknowledgments
----------------------------

Thanks go out to these musicians for their help:
================================================

Adam Gilmore (thanks for all the tune credit information)
Allister Brimble (lots of handy credit information on your tunes)
Andr Schrder (Andre/Oxyron) (for your tunes and then some!)
Balazs Takacs (Taki/Natural Beat) (for the Natural Beat SIDs and fixes)
Barry Leitch (for some of your tunes.  We hope you find that Galway remix!)
Ben Daglish (it took some time to find you, but thanks for your help.  Hope
             the theatre production work is going well.)
Bjrn Fogelberg (Knatter of XAKK) (for some of your own tunes and a few more)
Charles Deenen (for verifying your tunes)
Chris Abbott (for lots of historical information and the Back In Time CD,
              which is highly recommended by us - goto http://www.c64audio.com.)
Chris Hlsbeck (especially thanks for the unreleased tunes.  Please do send
                us more tunes and information if you have time.)
David Whittaker (cheers for the verifying - we'll check some more sometime.)
Dennis Lindross (Deadman) (for his own tunes, and some excellent rips.  Keep
                           up the good work.)
Eric Ardem/Antimon (for your own tunes and some others)
Fred Gray (for all the humourous information on your tunes)
Gavin Raeburn (for tune verification and sending us games to rip your music
               from - hope TOCA 2 sells well!)
Geir Tjelta (a lot of your tunes, and a great Tim Follin one.)
Glenn Rune Gellefoss (for your complete collection)
Jens-Christian Huus/Vibrants (for lots and lots of rips, and all the Vibrants
                              tunes we could handle, plus a score of mistake 
                              spotting to boot.)
Jeroen & Michiel Soede of Soedesoft (for some credit fixes and some of their
SIDs - please get in touch with us again!)
Jeroen Tel (for all the info on yours and various MON tunes.  Please bring
            out that 3CD set you mentioned in the Commodore Zone interview)
Johannes Bjerregaard (for all your information, especially the name spelling
                      ("aa"))
Johan strand (Zyron) (for your collection and information)
Jonathan Dunn (for a stack of information on your tunes - it'd be nice to
               have more.)
Juha-Matti Tilpinen (AMJ/Side B) (for tune info - hope you can send a complete
                                  collection soon!)
Linus Walleij (King Fisher/Triad) (for the Triad SIDs, Enlightenment: Druid-
               II, and more rips with correct credits.  Keep it up!)
Marcel Donne (Mad)/Scoop/MoN (for the credit info on your tunes)
Mark Tait (in particular for your history at Tiertex and admitting Human
           Killing Machine was inspired by Galway)
Mark Wilson (for your own collection and some Matt Gray tunes)
Markus Weber (for your own SIDs plus more!)
Martin Galway (thanks for taking the time to help us out.  May you be
               inspired if you get to write the Wing Commander film score)
Matt Furniss (for lots of checking your own tunes and remixing some C64
              ones recently)
Matt Simmonds (4-Mat) (for the unreleased Follin SID and your own tunes)
Michael Hendriks/FAME (for some unused tunes and credit information)
Michael Winterberg (for your collection)
Michel de Bree (Youth) (for all the HeatWave SIDs)
Oliver Klee (Odi) (for your collection)
Patrick Ceuppens (Lyon) (for your complete collection)
Reyn Ouewhand (thanks for taking the time to verify your tunes.  We'd
               appreciate more if you have the time.)
Richard Joseph (for confirming the tunes you'd made.)
Rob Hubbard (thanks for putting up with the waves of questions, and
             checking some re-rips for us, and verifying which tunes you
             actually had composed.)
Sean Connolly (for the Sonix Systems complete collection)
Slaygon (for your own collection)
Sren Lund (Jeff) (for the complete collection of yours)
Stefan Berglind (Doxx) (for your complete collection)
Stefan Konarkowski (Alien) (for some credit fixes and your own tunes)
Tammo Hinrichs (KB/The Obsessed Maniacs) (for the complete collection
                and checking other people's rips of your tunes.)
Thomas Mogensen (Drax/Vibrants) (for error spotting & his and Laxity's tunes)
Tomas Danko (for sending in and verifying all your tunes.  It sure
             looks a lot nicer now to see when you made your tunes.
Torben Hansen (Metal/Vibrants) (for your collection)
Tuomas Rantala (Thor/Extend) (for credit information on your own SIDs)
Vincent Voois (a few SIDs from others, and your own)
Wally Beben (for all the verifying, and uncovering some mysteries for us.)
Wolfgang Reszel (Nebula) (for all your collection, and a great STIL!)
Youth and Yavin of Heatwave (for sending in some of their SIDs)


And thanks to the following for additional help:
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Agust Arni Jonsson (Nemesis1) (for Nemesids1, which helped us in the early
                               stages)
Anders Eriksen (for some great rips - keep it up)
Andrejs Dunkels 
Author of Doom II FAQ (used your format for this document)
Bacillus (for some great rips - keep up the hard work)
Burglar (Real SIDPlay inventor, and fixing SIDs to work with it.  Thanks!)
CJ Hammond (for some great fixes, such as Bazooka Bill)
Daniel Nslund (for some nice rips)
Dave Griffin (for the rare Compunet demos that had some rare Matt Gray tunes)
David Simmons (Jazzcat/Onslaught) for compiling Album of the Year - great work!
Deadbeat (for rips and credit fixes)
DeeKay / Crest (for spotting multispeed errors and appreciation)
Dejan Petronijevic (Nucleus) (for some nice SIDs and info)
DXS's web page (for some SIDs)
Fred (we merged your collection with ours)
Frederic Gidouin (Piccolo) (in particular for the repeat finds)
Fungus (for a few SIDs)
Henrik Simonsen (for a fair few 20cc tunes..)
IW (for a fair few SIDs - but remember to keep your name out of the credits :)
Jan Krolzig (for quality rips and fixes - keep up the great work!!!)
Jarle Berntsen (for the credit fixes)
Martin Jeppesen (for some SIDs)
Jason Mackenzie (Kenz) (for all the rare Feekzoid and Jon Wells SIDs, plus
                        more demos than you can handle.  Cheers pal!)
Kris/Clique (for the Babyface tunes)]
Linus kerlund (for constructive thoughts, rips and suggestions)
LoLo (for some SIDs)
Medicus/KLF (Andy) (a few dozen tunes)
Mikael Grahn (Nik) (for a fair few SIDs, especially the MC ones)
MIkael Larsson (Phuture) (for a chunk of SIDs, keep it up)
Michael Huth (for some credit fixes)
Minstrel Dragon (for the Ulitima III music)
Natas/Carcass (for the Starlost SIDs)
Necrophobiac (for the Reverb SIDs)
Nicolai Thilo (Zenox/Starion) (for some of your collection - please send Jan
                               the rest!)
Per (for finding a pack of SIDs on the Internet for us)
Per Bolmstedt (for suggestions and a fair few rips)
Per Hkan Sundell and Ron Birk (PlaySID creators and trend setters)
Peter de Bie (for the great Screens collection - a precusor to HVSIDs?)
Peter Sandn (Panda) (for a lot of requested SIDs and some credit fixes)
Peter Weighill (for the rare Whittaker SIDs and old tune information)
PiNa/Torture of Music (for the Mateus collection and some rips)
Phredator (for the Roy Batty tunes and some C64 testing)
Roger Ferm (for the Sane SIDs)
Ron Rickert (for sending in a veritable feast of tunes)
Seven/Hitmen (for several rips for fixes)
Skid Row (for some SIDs and credit fixes)
Slight (for a couple of hundred SIDs)
Simon Colgrave (credits and repeat info)
Svante Hellstadius (Fulcrum) (for sending Adam your complete collection)
The Human Autofire (for some SIDs)
Timo Buschmann (RRR/Oxyron) (in particular for the PRI tunes)
Ulf Andersson (for the Matrix/Zone 45 tunes, 
Vectrocon/Fairlight (for the 47 tunes)
Ville Muikkula (for the Red Devil SIDs)
Vincent Schoettke (for many rips from great demos and lots of credit information)

And to everyone else who contributed...We apologise if we have forgotten
anyone.

