Best C64 Game Soundtrack
Craig J Matthews
would most definitely have to be for 'Forbidden Forest" by COSMI ...
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CJM> From: fkn...@earthlink.net (Craig J Matthews)
CJM> What's everyone's favorite Commodore 64 game soundtrack? My vote would
CJM> most definitely have to be for 'Forbidden Forest" by COSMI ...
Nah, don't think so!
Being a cracker, Martin Galways loadingtunes from f.ex. Rambo and Great Escape
makes tears fall over here! Anything signed Tim Follin also kicks major butt!
Also some tunes by Rob Hubbard will never leave me; The tune Dynamic Duo used to
use in a few intros and the steel guitar one we used in our Linking leroy-leroy
demopart in Legoland I rules a lot!
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Ray(mond) Blum
comes up in the intro, doesn't the music and wind whistling through the
mountaintops blow you away? (pun for free)
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Po-Ching Lives!
>On 01-Mar-96 22:07:50, Craig J Matthews wrote:
>>What's everyone's favorite Commodore 64 game soundtrack? My vote
>>would most definitely have to be for 'Forbidden Forest" by COSMI ...
I liked the soundtrack in another Cosmi release, Super Huey. I don't
know if Paul Norman wrote that one, but it's not bad!
Cameron Kaiser
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George Brock-Nannestad
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: Fred Gray: _Mutants_
What about Hysteria, Implosion or Mission A.D.?
: Hubbard: Skate or Die!, Mega Apocalypse
I always liked the music from Crazy Comets better than the one from
Mega Apocalypse, if is just too bad that you can't hear the music while you
are playing the game, because of the sfx. M.A. is still a great game
though, much better than Crazy Comets.
: M.Galway: Short Circuit, Wizball, Comic Bakery, Platoon (is this Galway?)
The music from Platoon was not made by Galway, I think it was Jonathan Dunn.
Also the music from Comic Bakery was originally used in Top Gun, and then
reused in Comic Bakery.
: Hüelsbeck: Denaris, X-Out, Spherical, Rock'n Roll, Badcat
: (*ALL* of them *MUCH* better than the 16 bit versions)
Did Huelsbeck make the music in X-Out? I thought it was F.A.M.E
I also have an addition. What about Slimey's Mine? I know it has no music,
but the sound-effects are great :-)
-Laust
bob masse
Jason
: Must admit Im a fan of Rob H myself, Mega Apocalypse is a damn fine tune
: but so are the tunes on Flimbo`s Quest....
I wonder who got the Mega Apocalypse music out for you...? =-)
Jason =-)
J.L.Sanchez
Escape from Singes Castle, (Delta??), ... one of the Thalamus ones (can't
remember the name now) ... oooh my brain is rusty after all these years...
I would find myself buying a game almost solely for his music..
International Karate, Mega Apocalypse, Commando (I think), oh yes, its
all coming back to me now.
Juan
PIZZA
-> definitely have to be for 'Forbidden Forest" by COSMI ...
Actually I don't know what's the best, but here are some really worth
listening:
Enigma Force , Shadowfire, Commando , Mission AD
+ almost every tune from Hubbard, Galway etc.
Jason
: I was always a huge fan of Rob (?) Hubbard: Thrust, Skate or Die!,
: Escape from Singes Castle, (Delta??), ... one of the Thalamus ones (can't
: remember the name now) ... oooh my brain is rusty after all these years...
Robb (his spelling, from when he and Rob Jackson used to appear on Compunet's
PartyLine service and it would only allow one Rob at a time!) only did
two soundtracks for Thalamus, Sanxion (loading and titles tune) and Delta
(loading mix-e-music, titles, ingame, completion, fx and unused jingles)
so it must be one of those!
I've just thought of another cool one, Outrun Europa intro by J.T.
Jason (Yo! Outrun!! =-)
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Peter T Karlsson
CM> What's everyone's favorite Commodore 64 game soundtrack?
My personal favourite is the song in Uridium.
If it only was longer...
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>I was always a huge fan of Rob (?) Hubbard: Thrust, Skate or Die!,
>Escape from Singes Castle, (Delta??), ... one of the Thalamus ones (can't
>remember the name now) ... oooh my brain is rusty after all these years...
>
>I would find myself buying a game almost solely for his music..
>
>International Karate, Mega Apocalypse, Commando (I think), oh yes, its
>all coming back to me now.
>
>Juan
>
International Karate had perfect sound! Just when things were getting tougher,
the music changed into a more thrilling kind of music.
Also the samples were really cool, especially the sound the karate suits
made when doing a kick; not all this shouting and screaming, but just
a nice sound.
(Hope anyone remembers it)
The game itself was great, altough in the end I couldn't loose anymore ;)
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Chip Pieroni
The best soundtrack for the C64 EVER was a program called
'DRIVE MUSIC', that actually made the 1541 disk drive SING !!! I
ran it on my FSD-2, not knowing what it was about and it is quite
funny !! I shall post it here later (1.5K !)...
Cheers !
Chip Pieroni...
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Barry Steenbergh
Chip Pieroni <ppie...@ppse.win-uk.net> wrote:
> The best soundtrack for the C64 EVER was a program called
>'DRIVE MUSIC', that actually made the 1541 disk drive SING !!! I
>ran it on my FSD-2, not knowing what it was about and it is quite
>funny !! I shall post it here later (1.5K !)...
Hi everyone,
I thought that one was really neat too. I tried running it once (ONCE) on
my 1571. It was *loud*. I have heard from several sources though that it
is very hard on the disk drive and should not be run... Just my $0.02. :)
Barry Steenbergh
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>
> The best soundtrack for the C64 EVER was a program called
>'DRIVE MUSIC', that actually made the 1541 disk drive SING !!! I
>ran it on my FSD-2, not knowing what it was about and it is quite
>funny !! I shall post it here later (1.5K !)...
Drive Music was a great program. Even now, armed with disassembly, I
still am at a loss to how he managed to throw it together. The only
problem I found was that it doesn't work well on drives that have
good sound insulation, for obvious reasons :-)
Jeroen van Drongelen
> CM> What's everyone's favorite Commodore 64 game soundtrack?
The Last Ninja I and II, definately.
greetz!
Chip Pieroni
>Hi everyone,
>
> I thought that one was really neat too. I tried running it once (ONCE) on
>my 1571. It was *loud*. I have heard from several sources though that it
>is very hard on the disk drive and should not be run... Just my $0.02. :)
>
> Barry Steenbergh
>
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>
It's pretty cool, HUH ? I tried it on my FSD-2, and it only
vibrates the heads a bit (OK, a lot.). Shouldn't cause any damage
to a healthy drive ..
Cheers !
Chip Pieroni..
Christer Bjarnemo
> > Hubbard: Skate or Die!, Mega Apocalypse
>Those two belong to my favourites, too. What about Thrust (Hubbard, too)?
Yes, i forgot a lot of Hubbart tunes.. Nemesis the warlock is another one..
>Huelsbeck is the name of the man! ;-)
>Do you know his game "To be on the Top"? The most incredible sounds I've ever
>heard coming out of a C=64...
I have that song in playsid format, but i never played the game.. But i must
say it's a good tune..
>And one more to add to your names above: R-TYPE!
I don't remember that one...
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PIZZA
-> really magnificently powerful music... I could listen that forever...
Oh, I forgot that one, it was very good.
-> Thrust music. Very powerful
Have you heard Thust 2? It contains and EXCELLENT steam-locomotive (is that the
correct word to use?)-type sound. And the tune is great once it gets going.
-> Ark Pandora songs. Really beautiful...
Haven't heard that one. Couple of other great tunes that come into my mind
right now are:Arkanoid 1 (I like it a lot, many people don't), Bionic Commando
(best c64 tunes), Cobra (crap game, lovely music) & the Ocean tape loaders
(in head over heels, operation wolf etc)
Mika Yrj|l{
>-> Thrust music. Very powerful
>Have you heard Thust 2? It contains and EXCELLENT steam-locomotive (is that the
>correct word to use?)-type sound. And the tune is great once it gets going.
Hmm... I haven't heard that, maybe I'll try to seek it...
>(best c64 tunes), Cobra (crap game, lovely music) & the Ocean tape loaders
>(in head over heels, operation wolf etc)
Hmm, I kind of liked the tune in Cobra too...
Mika
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J.L.Sanchez
>On Fri, 01 Mar 1996 21:07:50 GMT, fkn...@earthlink.net (Craig J
>Matthews) wrote:
>
>Yes, that's a good one... I also have always liked the Exodus: Ultima
>3 soundtrack... very simple but well-composed music.
>
Oh Yes, how could I forget?! The music by Kenneth Williams to the
Ultima III and IV games absolutely made it for me. The atmosphere they
generated was superb. When Ultima V came out and there was no music for the
64 I was heart broken... it was almost enough to make me want to buy a
C-128 : just to hear the music!! Sigh....................................
I would go down into Dungeons just to hear those spooky 'melodies', and
fight scenes were just brilliant!
None of the recent, 'better', Ultimas on the PC have spent as much time on
the music as their older Commodore counterparts, and I can't help but
feel that something is missing... so much for progress.
Juan
Stephen Judd
>In article <4h8uaq$s...@guysmiley.blarg.net> fut...@blarg.net (Tim Gerchmez) writes:
>>On Fri, 01 Mar 1996 21:07:50 GMT, fkn...@earthlink.net (Craig J
>>Matthews) wrote:
>>
>>Yes, that's a good one... I also have always liked the Exodus: Ultima
>>3 soundtrack... very simple but well-composed music.
>>
>
>Oh Yes, how could I forget?! The music by Kenneth Williams to the
Kenneth W. Arnold, I think.
>Ultima III and IV games absolutely made it for me. The atmosphere they
>generated was superb. When Ultima V came out and there was no music for the
>64 I was heart broken... it was almost enough to make me want to buy a
>C-128 : just to hear the music!! Sigh....................................
The music isn't as good in V as in III and IV. It's also pretty obnoxious
having the music interrupted by ticking clocks, waterfalls, etc. :)
Have you ever seen Ultima VI on the 64? It is really bad. No music or
sound effects even! The keyboard reading routines are awful, and the
characters are multicolor, which makes everything look like thoroughly
undistinguishable blobs of color :). Basically they ported it straight
from the PC, with results like you might expect :).
>None of the recent, 'better', Ultimas on the PC have spent as much time on
>the music as their older Commodore counterparts, and I can't help but
>feel that something is missing... so much for progress.
Yes, the C64 music is definitely the best out of the various platforms
Ultima is on.
Now, I wanted to comment on the earlier comment that the music was "simple".
There are different ways of being simple, or, alternatively, there are
different ways of being complex. I could write a piece of music for 100
French horns, all with different parts. It would certainly be complicated,
but only in a physical sense. I could also write a piece for solo violin
which modulates keys every fifth note, has polyphonic parts, and sounds
so simple that you don't even notice -- that's a little more complicated.
In the musical performance world there is a term: flash trash. It denotes
music which sounds flashy and technically impressive but doesn't have much
else going for it. They tend to be fun to play and fun to listen to, but
are somehow very unsatisfying at an intellectual or spiritual level. You
can of course draw analogies to film, television, etc.
Most modern tunes for games and demos fall into the category of flash trash.
They sound pretty cool, but they are basically kindergarten composition.
The music generally revolves around a single theme and one or maybe two
chords, and very simple and repetitious rhythms. Really sophisticated
compositions will occasionally transpose the theme to a new key -- wow!!! ;-)
I do not, however, find the Ultima III music to be simple. In the main
song you have the theme with the 'oom-pah' accompanient. Then double-time
the accompanient. Tripets on the main theme. Then a very nice harmony
is added. Then there's a tiny little theme development, and the really nice
five-note three-part harmony sequencing which brings you back to the main
theme, in a different instrument. Not terribly complex, but several steps
above the average computer composition ;).
More importantly, each composition in III has with it an ambience which
is almost profound, and complements the game perfectly. It is the most well-
matched music in a game that I can think of. I haven't listened to it in
years but it is deeply etched into my brain. The sound effects, too, are
perfect.
By the way, you do know that you can hear the various compositions from
the Journey Onwards screen, right? Press space, and return to the view.
Each time you return to the view you will get a different piece, including
the Exodus' Castle theme with all its sevenths and such. This doesn't
work in Ultima IV -- you just have to wait for all the songs.
evetS-
>Juan
PIZZA
Actually I'd like to rip this out and put it into the "windows shutdown".
Does anyone know how to rip the audio output from the C64S or PC64?
Stephen Judd
Mike Domingo <Mike_D...@smtp.svl.trw.com> wrote:
>On the subject of game sound effects I'd like the nominate the following
>(pioneers?) of voice synthesis sound effects:
>
>Castle Wolfenstein: "Achung!"
>Mission Impossible: "Ahhhhhh...."
>Beach Head II: "I'm Hit!"
On a somewhat related note, does anyone know how these voices were
generated? Specifically the good ones, like Impossible Mission and
Ghostbusters (both Berlely Softworks voices?). Are they just digitized,
or do they actually manipulate SID in some sophisticated way?
evetS-
>Mike Domingo
Peter T Karlsson
MD> On the subject of game sound effects I'd like the nominate the
MD> following (pioneers?) of voice synthesis sound effects:
Voice synthesis, or samples?
MD> Castle Wolfenstein: "Achung!"
Wasn't it that that was the predecessor to Wolfenstein 3D?
MD> Mission Impossible: "Ahhhhhh...."
MD> Beach Head II: "I'm Hit!"
Ghostbusters: "Ghostbusters"
I, Ball II: "Let's go" + more
That's what I can think of right now, at least. There are loads more.
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philip melnick
: What's everyone's favorite Commodore 64 game soundtrack? My vote
: would most definitely have to be for 'Forbidden Forest" by COSMI ...
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Here are my favourites (in order):
Legacy of the Ancients (the title screen with the museum)
Ultima 4
Ultima 3
Defender of the Crown
Yie-Ar Kung Fu (Leave the title screen on for 5 minutes)
SKate or Die (title screen)
Often a musical score sounds great mostly because of the context
in which it was used in the game.
-phil
Paul Irvine
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>
> MD> Mission Impossible: "Ahhhhhh...."
> MD> Beach Head II: "I'm Hit!"
>
>Ghostbusters: "Ghostbusters"
>I, Ball II: "Let's go" + more
>
>That's what I can think of right now, at least. There are loads more.
>
could you mail it if thats ok with you?
Thanks
Paul
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I never did work out how to get past the dragon in level 1 (oh the shame)...
what's the secret?
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Chip Pieroni
Hmmm, if you had another PC you could always connect the
'SOUND OUT' to the 'SAMPLE IN' and sample it on the other PC..
Other than that... ?
Cheers !
Chip Pieorni....
Waveform
Stephen.Searle <s...@mod.dsto.gov.au> wrote:
>I never did work out how to get past the dragon in level 1 (oh the shame)...
>what's the secret?
As I recall, you had to have obtained the "bag of powder" item. When you
threw the bag, it would explode into a ball of powder. Turns out the dust
is a sleeping powder. If you stood at just the right spot, you threw the
bag of powder toward the dragon... the dragon then went through a little
animation of falling asleep. You could then walk past safely.
Took me a while to figure how that worked. I don't think I ever used the
sleeping powder anywhere else in that whole game, but I could be wrong. I
remember the dragon part clearly as it seemed to take me forever to
figure it out.
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Po-Ching Lives! <cka...@sdcc13.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>I think they're just digitized. Even 4-bit sound can be of fair
>quality. My current project is a .WAV converter so I can play 8-bit,
>11.025kHz samples on the 64. Surprisingly, Micro$oft's file format
>is rather easily converted to VoiceMaster's, which makes it rather simple!
I seem to remember an article in Run or Computes Gazette about the
mission impossible speech. They talked about the differences between
digitized and synthesized speech. The former being a recording of
actual speech and the later being contructed in one form or another
from scratch.
Mission impossible was of the later type. The speech was synthesized.
>Cameron Kaiser >cka...@ucsd.edu
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>>The Last Ninja I and II, definately.
>I never did work out how to get past the dragon in level 1 (oh the shame)...
>what's the secret?
A well-aimed smoke bomb in front of its head will make the little
critter fall asleep!
/Roger Klein
Peter T Karlsson
>Wasn't it that that was the predecessor to Wolfenstein 3D?
DF> That it was. Not a very good game though (IMHO).
I don't know, since I've never played it...
> MD> Mission Impossible: "Ahhhhhh...."
> MD> Beach Head II: "I'm Hit!"
>Ghostbusters: "Ghostbusters"
>I, Ball II: "Let's go" + more
DF> Space Taxi: "Pad x please"; "Up please"; "Thanks!"
DF> ACE: "Missile warning"
And so on... :-)
Loads of them...
Oh, there's one duel type game, with two cowboys facing each other, which
you can move upward/downwards, there are cactuses in between, and someone a
waggon drives by. It has some kind of speach in it, but I haven't been able
to figure out what they say, does anyone know?
(can't remember the name of the game right now).
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Peter T Karlsson
The tape loader music from Imagine, the "heavy version". I have it on my
copies of 'Yie Ar Kung Fu II' and 'Slap Fight'. It starts out like the old
one (that are on most of the game), but goes on to a more heavy version...
Actually, it has happened that I just loaded the game to hear that tune,
and then shut the computer off again :-)
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Peter T Karlsson
>I, Ball II: "Let's go" + more
PI> Have you the I,Ball II music in playsid or Sid format Peter, If
PI> you have could you mail it if thats ok with you?
Unfortunately, no. I only have I, Ball II on tape (original game). I don't
know if it's possible to rip the music from it.
Better ask Pontus about that... He's a professional :-)
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S> I never did work out how to get past the dragon in level 1 (oh the
S> shame)... what's the secret?
If I remember correctly, you need to throw smoke bombs at it while it is
"out".
I think I have a map of LN1 somewhere, with descriptions on how to complete
it.
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>
>Reply to what Darren Fuerst wrote in the message <Do50v...@news.uwindsor.
>ca> on Tue, 12 Mar 1996 04:37:57 GMT:
>
> >Wasn't it that that was the predecessor to Wolfenstein 3D?
> DF> That it was. Not a very good game though (IMHO).
>
>you can move upward/downwards, there are cactuses in between, and someone a
>waggon drives by. It has some kind of speach in it, but I haven't been able
>to figure out what they say, does anyone know?
I don't know, but it sounds like the prequel to Street Fighter. Can't these
game companies stop taking ideas from old commodore games? =)
Darth Vader
STAX
>>C-128 : just to hear the music!! Sigh....................................
What would the 128 have helped?
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PIZZA
-> >Does anyone know how to rip the audio output from the C64S or PC64?
-> Hmmm, if you had another PC you could always connect the
-> 'SOUND OUT' to the 'SAMPLE IN' and sample it on the other PC..
-> Other than that... ?
I thought that, and it's completely possible (since I have 2 PCs side by side),
but I just thought that it'd be much easier if the emulators could copy the
audio straight to a WAV file (like sidplay can do).
Darth Vader
Alternate Reality The Dungeon? Great game (the best) and great soundtrack (the
best soundtrack for the C64 IMHO). Had words to many of the songs, of course
this appeared as text on screen, but you couldn't help but sing along now and
then. =) By the way I am looking to buy a good copy of this game if anyone has
but does not want it.
Darth Vader
HELLO
Rambo I had a wicked loader
Peter T Karlsson
W> Mission impossible was of the later type. The speech was
W> synthesized.
Cool. It doesn't sound digitized, I mean, it does sound very good.
Intriguing what the ol' C64 can do :-)
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Peter T Karlsson
-> Very silly trivia: I believe that Hyper Sports was the first game that had
-> the classic Ocean loader music by Galway. Confirmation, anyone?
P> I'm not at all sure, but did Yie Ar Kung Fu loader use the same
P> music? It's quite old game also.
I have a collection of ten games (including both Yie Ar Kung Fu and Hyper
Sports). They both use the same loader music, that's for sure. But which
one did it first... I dunno.
I think that all used the same music except for Yie Ar Kung Fu II, who used
the 'heavy' version.
Out of curiosity; did the disk versions use this loader music?
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>Reply to what PIZZA wrote in the message
><8BCE59F.0077...@venture.fipnet.fi> on Sun, 17 Mar 96 23:59:00
>+0200:
> -> Very silly trivia: I believe that Hyper Sports was the first game that
> had
> -> the classic Ocean loader music by Galway. Confirmation, anyone?
> P> I'm not at all sure, but did Yie Ar Kung Fu loader use the same
> P> music? It's quite old game also.
>I have a collection of ten games (including both Yie Ar Kung Fu and Hyper
>Sports). They both use the same loader music, that's for sure. But which
>one did it first... I dunno.
I just checked out In Medias Res (http://www.kuai.se/~zike) and it turns out
that Martin Galway himself refers to this tune as "the Hyper Sports loader".
That firmed my belief that Hyper Sports was the first game with this tune
somewhat. :-)
P.S: Is it just me, or did the loader for Wizball sound slighly different
from the normal (Hyper Sports) Ocean loader?
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J> Yup, first the original Ocean loader came up (and how many people
J> stopped the tape just to listen to it?! =-)
Me :-)
J> and then the Galway mix of Chariots of Fire ran as the game finished
J> loading.
Or, actually, I load the game, and also listens to CoF, but don't play it
often :-)
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J> It don't have a soundtrack! Only the samples. I've got an
J> original round here somewheres... Wanna borrow it?
It *does* have a soundtrack... Doesn't it? There's only sound fx in the
game, but on the main screen, there are music... Right?
Damn, I have to load it and try it... Wonder if it will load, that loader
is rather picky...
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> W> Mission impossible was of the later type. The speech was
> W> synthesized.
> Cool. It doesn't sound digitized, I mean, it does sound very good.
> Intriguing what the ol' C64 can do :-)
Actually, it's pretty amazing that they fit those samples in memory with
the rest of the game!
-Pete
PIZZA
-> copies of 'Yie Ar Kung Fu II' and 'Slap Fight'. It starts out like the old
-> one (that are on most of the game), but goes on to a more heavy version...
How could I forget that when I talked about good tunes. It's the best tune on
C64 I've ever heard. The same tune is in the RASTAN tape loader also.
-> Actually, it has happened that I just loaded the game to hear that tune, and
-> then shut the computer off again :-)
I did the same thing - and several times. :)
Robert Klace
Neuromancer: Digi Title
MJBasketBall: Awesome SID music on the title
Slimey's Mines: Digi "drum machine" title, and digi sound effects in the game.
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PIZZA
-> Sports). They both use the same loader music, that's for sure. But which one
-> did it first... I dunno.
-> Out of curiosity; did the disk versions use this loader music?
My friend had the disk version of Magnificent Seven (a great game collection).
It had Yie Ar Kung Fu, but I don't remeber it having any kind of a loader
music. I might (and probably do) remember wrong.
Jonne Meskus
Now that game had a tune that kept on playing and playing for hours in your
head after you had heard it. I can still remember the tune, after all this
time ... hell, I played the game almost two days ago ;-)
Zoran Dzelajlija
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= Neuromancer: Digi Title
That's nice, but does ANYONE understand the words?
I mean, I hear "wa, wa, wee, wo, change" and
something like "I saw that ????? oh boy " and the chorus "??? " :))))
Anybody?
Zoran
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HS> @MSGID: d95...@nada.kth.se [<1270.6652...@nada.kth.se>]NW095
HS> it turns out that Martin Galway himself refers to this tune as "the
HS> Hyper Sports loader". That firmed my belief that Hyper Sports was
HS> the first game with this tune somewhat. :-)
Okay. I think I have to agree with you then :) I never said I didn't believe
it, I said I just didn't know :)
HS> P.S: Is it just me, or did the loader for Wizball sound slighly
HS> different from the normal (Hyper Sports) Ocean loader?
Did it use the "heavy" version?
Peter Karlsson
JM> Anyone remember a game called 'Fairlight - A Prelude" by Bo ..
JM> something ?
Where can this game be found?
Jason
: P.S: Is it just me, or did the loader for Wizball sound slighly
: different from the normal (Hyper Sports) Ocean loader?
Peter Karlsson (dat9...@idt.mdh.se) wrote:
: Did it use the "heavy" version?
Yep, Parallax and Wizball (both versions) used the "heavy" mix. Personally
I preferred this one!
Jason =-)
Pontus Berg
JM>> Anyone remember a game called 'Fairlight - A Prelude" by Bo ..
JM>> something ?
PK> Where can this game be found?
Bo Jangeborg coded the original game for the Spectrum. It's on Darren's CD
isn't it?
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Håkan Svensson
: Håkan Svensson wrote on Tue 19 Mar 1996 at 18:00:
: : P.S: Is it just me, or did the loader for Wizball sound slightly
: : different from the normal (Hyper Sports) Ocean loader?
: Peter Karlsson (dat9...@idt.mdh.se) wrote:
: : Did it use the "heavy" version?
: Yep, Parallax and Wizball (both versions) used the "heavy" mix. Personally
: I preferred this one!
: Jason =-)
Well, I thought that it sounded different. Then I found Zyron's Galway
collection and, yes, there were three versions of the Hyper Sports loader.
The original, the heavy version, and the Slap Fight version. When I heard
the term "heavy", I thought the Slap Fight loader was meant.
Anyway. James Galway is one of the world's most renowned flutists, having
won several awards. The strange thing is that on the INC pages, it says
that he's also Martin Galway's uncle. Can someone *please* verify this?
Jason
: Anyway. James Galway is one of the world's most renowned flutists, having
: won several awards. The strange thing is that on the INC pages, it says
: that he's also Martin Galway's uncle. Can someone *please* verify this?
Zzap! 64 had an interview with Martin and apparently its true! I also
heard that David Whittaker is related to Roger, but this is from a slightly
more dodgy source!
Jason =-)
Peter Karlsson
On 96-03-24, one could hear Jason say this in CBM computer discussions:
> : Did it use the "heavy" version?
> Yep, Parallax and Wizball (both versions) used the "heavy" mix.
> Personally I preferred this one!
Me too, really. It's quite cool :-)
I haven't played any of the two mentioned, I only know it's on Yie Ar Kung Fu
II (although, when I tried to load it the other day, it wouldn't load, and I
tried both my cassette players. Damn) and Slap Fight.
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PIZZA
-> Where can this game be found?
If anything else fails, try mailing me for help. I have it.
I'd love to set up a FTP site for all my speccy & c64 games (there seems to be
a demand for them...all these people askin "do you have this and that game") :)
Well, maybe sometimes in the future.
Håkan Svensson
>Uhh... When I wrote "heavy", I meant the Slap Fight version. That plus the
>Hyper Sports version are the only two that I have heard. The Slap Fight
>version is used with the Yie Ar Kung Fu II in a game collection I have
>(couldn't confirm this, since the cassette seems to ahve died).
>Are these tunes available for ftp somewhere? If so, in what form?
>(Preferrably playable on my C128).
ftp.funet.fi, in the pub/cbm/c64/demos/pal/Antic dir.
The filename is galway-tunes.lzh
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Jason
: Uhh... When I wrote "heavy", I meant the Slap Fight version. That plus the
: Hyper Sports version are the only two that I have heard.
Well, generally speaking you *have* heard the heavy version! It's the same
tune as the Hypersports loader except that after playing the intro it gets
to that bit with the downwards slide and slows down to about half tempo!
When it gets to the end it wraps and speeds back up!
I know Binary Zone PD are working on a Martin Galway collection and all
three tunes are to be included! It's nearly done (Kenz/BZ is also in
Cosine!) so I'll put it up to an FTP site as soon as I get it!
I quite liked the Choroid (Johnathon Dunn) Ocean loader music, the first
one that was used on Op. Wolf!
Jason =-)
Peter Karlsson
HS> ftp.funet.fi, in the pub/cbm/c64/demos/pal/Antic dir.
HS> The filename is galway-tunes.lzh
Got it.
The "heavy" version I refered to is "Ocean Loader 3", i.e [D] in the menu. I
had never before heard "Ocean Loader 2", though.