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                   T H E   C O M P U T E ' S   G A Z E T T E
                          S I D   C O L L E C T I O N

                                 release 1.46

                                 March,  2024
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CONTENTS:
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[1] Introduction
    [1-1] The CGSC Project
[2] Collection Structure
[3] How Can I Help?
    [3-1] Contributing Music
[4] Acknowledgments

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CHAPTER [1]: Introduction
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[1-1] The CGSC Project
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The CGSC Project is an attempt to accurately archive all Compute's Sidplayer
music files into one complete collection.
The project was started in November of 1998.
The previous SID collections were less comprehensive, were not sorted into
any order and contained many repeats.

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CHAPTER [2]: Collection Structure
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There are several ways in which most SID collections have been organised.
To name a few, by author's first name, by categories or just a simple
rat's nest of SIDs.  We have chosen to arrange the collection by the
author's name or by the author's alias if it was used more frequently.
Finally, we usually only give composers their own directory when we have
three or more tunes available from them.  This then makes it a little easier
for you to locate the composer.

Some files have been given special extensions to their names. Below is a list
of those extensions:

_(BAD)  - Tune plays but sounds funny after a while.

_(SHORT)  - Tune plays but stops after a while.

_(NON)  - Tune does not play any sounds at all.

NOTE: These are marked BAD, SHORT or NON only if they do not play on *all*
      music players.

_A _B _C etc..  - Where duplicate tunes exist within the collection, each
                  is given a letter suffix. Each duplicate is slightly
                  different, so each version was kept.

_Remix  - The tune is a remixed version


Below are a some comments about a few special directories:

/00_COMMODORE64 - Contains some useful Commodore Programs such as Sid/Pic
                  and Stereo SidPlayer.

/00_DOCUMENTS - If you are reading this document, then most likely you have
                already figured out what this directory is for.

/00_UTILS - Source code written in Visual Basic to help assist in "sorting"
            out MUS, STR and WDS files. These are only of use when adding
            new music to this collection.
            There is also a utility to help playing MUS files with SIDPLAY/W
            is the subdirectory MUSPLAY.

/MISC - For tunes where the Author does not have their own directory.
        Subdirectories A to Z exist so that the tunes can be "split down"
        into smaller groups. They are split by authors surname where possible.

/MISC/ANON - For tunes with no known Author.

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CHAPTER [3]: How Can I Help?
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[3-1]: Contributing Music
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We love to receive new Music for the CG SID Collection.
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).

  * Fixes of SIDs already in the CG SID Collection.  We have found
    several tunes that do not play properly, have missing STR or WDS files,
    etc.  Do if at all possible check them on a C64 first.

  - We ONLY want Compute's Sidplayer SID tunes.

If you have any music files and would like to send them, there are
several methods in which this can be achieved.  I would prefer them to be
emailed as an included attachment (preferred).
There are other possibilities so feel free to email and we can arrange
what ever is most convenient.

Please also DO NOT send any attachment that is more than 500KB without
mailing 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.


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Chapter [4]: Acknowledgments
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Thanks to the following for help:
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Funet FTP site
 - Grabbed all the music files
   (http://www.funet.fi/pub/cbm/c64/audio/sidplayer/index.html)
David Strauss
 - For sids from his web pages
   (http://www.miracomcorp.com/dave/sids.html)
HVSC
 - Based this document on yours
High Voltage CD #2
 - For the SIDS subdirectory
Agust Arni Jonsson
 - For NemeSIDs #18-#19
Meikkeim
 - For a few disk images with sid music on them
   (http://members.aol.com/meikkeim/sids.html)
ICPUG 
 - for music files from their c64 Software Library
Snakeman
 - For a lot of the new sids added in version 1.1 of CGSC
   (http://www.wipd.com/~snakeman/c64sids.html)
Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries (Rambones)
  - For sending me a copy of his collection
The Shark
  - For a few MUS files and some comments on the layout of
    the collection
  - For telling me about http://www.monroeworld.com/
Shane R. Monroe
  - for sids.zip from his web pages
    (http://www.monroeworld.com/)
Jeremy Sieracki
  - for the music on Arnold (most of the 1.3 updates are from here)
    (ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games/jeremy/MUS-SIDS/)
Headgap Web BBS
  - for music from their archives (most of the 1.4 updates are from here)
    (http://www.headgap.com/C64-128/cSidFiles/)
Other places I've been
   Including:
    (http://cereal.mv.com/cereal/CBM-SIDS/filesbbs.html)
    (ftp://ftp.wcat.com/pub/c64/sids/)
    (http://jkracht.aye.net/cbm/cbm-sids/)
    (http://files.chatnfiles.com/carousel/comdore/64MUSIC/)
    (http://www.softwolves.pp.se/cbm/syspd/d64/)
Charles J. Fitzhugh (Sir Fitz)
  - for helping with the "Alias_List.txt" and sorting out some of
    the music in the Misc directory
Dave G Elliott (CS Geos)
  - for music for the 1.9 update
    (http://dgelliott.tripod.com/)
Christopher A Haslage
  - for music for the 1.9 update
CMDRKEY Genie Archive
  - for all the music in the 1.11 update
    (http://usa.cmdrkey.com/cbm/genie/)
Troy Rutter (Datasid)
  - for most of the music in the 1.13 update
Raccoon, Stockholm computer club (STOCC), & Stone Oakvalley Studios
  - for most of the music in the 1.15 update
DemongerX
  - for all of the music added in the 1.16 update (2600 files, 26% more!)
DLH (Bombjack) and Christopher Ryan
    (http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines-disk/commodore-gazette/commodore-gazette.htm)
  - for a lot of the music added in the 1.17 update from the Commodore Gazette disk mag
Troy Rutter (Datasid) & Andrew Hackard
  - for virtually all of the music in the 1.20 update
ftp://8bitfiles.net/archives/compuserve-file-archive/20 Music & Utilities/
  - for most of the music in the 1.23 update
Kent Sullivan sent over some disks from John Rafalak which added about 750 new tunes in the v1.25 update. These tunes are from an archive of the Q-Link Music Room, where John was a SysOp.
An anonymous contributor sent over some disks which added about 200 new tunes in the v1.25 update.
http://www.7ater.com/c64/C64.htm for the new tunes in the v1.26 update.
Kent Sullivan and Craig Chamberlain for the original Sidfest disks and all the files in the v1.29 update.
Tristan Miller for sending in his own tunes and a five others in the v1.30 update. And also for spotting some typos in some of the file names.
Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club (CCCC) 2008 CDROM Image from the DLH Commodore Archive for tunes in the v1.30 update.
Allan Weseman for 124 tunes in the 1.31 update.
Stone Oakvalley for sending over a list of mus files in various collections. Found about 80 extra.
DLH (Bombjack) and Commodore East Brunswick User Group (CEBUG)
    (http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/disks/cebug/)
  - for the Stewart_Meyers tunes
Wilfred Bos for finding various tunes in CSDB
iAN CooG for the TheFatman tunes
Kent Sullivan sent over some disks from Sue Matthews which added 152 MUS and 45 WDS files. Sue downloaded these tunes from the Q-Link Music Room "back in the day".
Baracuda of Blazon/The Stock/Smash Designs for pointing out a new source for the 1.42 update
DuncanTwain for over 330 tunes in the v1.45 update
Sebastian (Professor Chaos) for the two tunes added to Misc\Anon_Blank in v1.45
Lane County Commodore User's Group collection for about 40 mus and 10 wds in v1.45

And to everyone else who contributed...
