Game and Demo Music at London user group, Monday 18th July 2011
ROUGOL
Game and Demo Music
presented by Martin Bazley
Monday 18th July 2011, 7:45pm
The Blue-Eyed Maid (upstairs in the Spice Lounge restaurant)
173 Borough High Street
London
SE1 1HR
Martin has spent several years gaining expertise in first ripping the
original music files from games and demos (surmounting compression,
encryption, obfuscation, and what have you), and latterly in
converting these original files from their often unique or esoteric
formats into files which can be played in the desktop via DigitalCD or
similar.
In this combined presentation, demonstration and concert, he hopes to
demonstrate some of the techniques he has used to achieve this, talk
about how he developed them, and share some anecdotes about the
weirder things he has discovered while traversing binary land, and the
frankly peculiar things which happen when music players are written by
people who know nothing about music players.
While everything is subject to change at short notice and the
inevitable compatibility gotchas arising from running twenty-year-old
software on a ten-year-old computer, it is hoped that music will be
played (and in some cases ripped live) from at least the following
games and demos:
- Fire and Ice
- Flashback
- Inferno (recently rereleased for iPhone)
- The Chaos Engine (plus its little-known sequel!)
- Diggers
- Cannon Fodder (plus sequel)
- Era, Phonology & Blu (by the Xperience)
- SWIV
- Phaethon (including the zone 5 music, which was somehow left out of
the archive available on the Icon Bar)
- PacMania
- Star Fighter 3000 (actually Chris Bazley's work)
- Cycloids (Tom Cooper)
- Emotions (GEK)
- Oddball & Asylum (both by Andy Southgate)
- And a version of the free ScummVM game Flight of the Amazon Queen
Some previous work on this subject has been released under the name
"Music Ripper's Toolkit", but the last public release of that is very
old and a lot of new work, such as SWIV and Phaethon, will be making
its public debut at this talk - you can't download anything anywhere,
and probably won't be able to for a while. Be sure to come along if
you want a slice of the nostalgic 1990s tracker-based action!
The Music Ripper's Toolkit can be downloaded from here:
http://www.starfighter.acornarcade.com/mysite/games.htm#mrtools
The usual arrangements
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Admittance is free and everyone is welcome. A range of hot and cold
food, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, will be on sale.
Anyone with wireless enabled handhelds or laptops can access the
internet during the meeting, or (if time allows) use ROUGOL's RiscPC
to do so after the main presentation has finished.
The venue is between London Bridge and Borough tube stations, so
readily accessible by public transport (both stations are a five
minute walk away, through well lit and CCTV'd main streets). It also
has ample cycle parking (covered by CCTV) very close by.
If you are arriving by car, the Congestion Charge ends at 6pm and our
meeting starts much later. However, please note that parking on double
red lines is restricted at all times. On single red or yellow lines,
it is best to park after 7pm. If you aren't completely familiar with
*central* London parking or driving, please allow extra time,
patience, and maps.
If you need any help reaching the venue, or any other information,
please contact us as below.
RISC OS User Group Of London in...@rougol.jellybaby.net
http://rougol.jellybaby.net/ 07785 317 330
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