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Favorite piece of Atari8 music.

Started by Bryan, Jul 6 2003 8:49 PM

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#1 Bryan ONLINE  

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Posted Sun Jul 6, 2003 8:49 PM

I was just wondering what everyone's favorite 8-bit tune was. I really like some of the .sap stuff that's been produced, and I've been looking through places like the Grayscale site. Anyway, I'll pick some favorites and post them too (404error is awfully cool).

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Posted Mon Jul 7, 2003 4:39 PM

Well, since nobody's responded i'll stick me oar in... Three tunes that spring to mind as favourites are "Zero War" by Richard Munns (presently the test tune on my first Atari code), "Jet Set Willy" by Rob Hubbard (what Sack/Cosine is using as test) and "Five To Five" by Jakub Husak.

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Posted Mon Jul 7, 2003 6:17 PM

Some of the multi0pokey stuff is very cool and I can't wait for someone to use RMT realy well too, but I'm gonna limit myself to game musix :)

My favorite is the Shadow of the Beast music by Orall Cornelius (I think I've found a disc of the musix alone), Thunderfox by Orall too is very cool...

I also like the Plastron theme by Richard Munns (in fact all his stuff is great), Panther by David Whittaker is great and Warhawk by Rob Hubbard is very nice too...

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Posted Mon Jul 7, 2003 6:35 PM

What? No one has mentioned the theme to Alternate Reality yet? :D

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Posted Mon Jul 7, 2003 7:17 PM

I also really like "porazka" by X-Ray (from the X-Ray sap collection on the Grayscale site).

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Posted Tue Jul 8, 2003 3:10 AM

Jet Set Willy has impressive music, and its says it was made by Rob Hubbard. Wasnt he just a C64 music composer? :ponder:

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Posted Tue Jul 8, 2003 3:15 AM

Sharky said:

Jet Set Willy has impressive music, and its says it was made by Rob Hubbard.  Wasnt he just a C64 music composer?   :ponder:

No, Hubbard was best known for his C64 music but did work on the Atari 8bit, Sinclair Spectrum, Atari ST, Amiga and PC. He's still working at EA as bossman of something-or-other-musicial and puts in appearances at some of the Back In Time Live gigs.

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Posted Tue Jul 8, 2003 4:25 AM

Was Hubbard the guy who created Moondust? That was the trippiest game I've ever played.

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Posted Tue Jul 8, 2003 3:19 PM

my 2 cents:

international karate by rob hubbard (atari version)
warhawk by rob hubbard (atari version)
jet set willy by rob hubbard (atari version)
delta (RMT version)

beside that all stuff by our TQA musicians (xray & greg (greyscale))

and many many more in the SAP archive... :D

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Posted Tue Jul 8, 2003 4:02 PM

This songs from POKEY I mostly like today, because they are not only game-chip-tunes, they are most real music to me, belonging to the hardware-capabilities



Dreamer.sap
Lukasz Sychowicz - Cabil.sap
Thomasz Liebich - Rucu.sap
Grzegorz Kwiatek - Hopeless.sap
Grzegorz Kwiatek - Punk_Is_Not_Dead.sap
Grzegorz Kwiatek - No_Breakes.sap
Grzegorz Kwiatek - Voice_of_Silence.sap
Deathland.sap
Speed_Matter.sap
Jakub Husak - Aquanaut.sap
Thomasz Majewski - Autobiografia.sap
Thomasz Liebich - Blood_Fighter_2.sap
Adrian Galinski - Classic_Secret_Sampled.sap
Adam Bienias - Crazy.sap
Thomasz Majewski - Das_Model.sap
Adam Bienias - Ice_Machine.sap
Jakub Husak - Opanowanie_Swiata.sap
Thomasz Majewski - Reksio_Theme.sap
Adam Bienias - Train_Sampled_version.sap
Thomasz Liebich - Ucieczka.sap
Jakub Husak - Ucieczka_W_Nicosc.sap
Filip Golewski - Waving_Sound.sap
Jakub Husak - Wodospadem_Czasu.sap
Jakub Husak - Wsrod_Gwiazd.Nadziei.sap
Marcin Czartynski - Exodus.sap
Filip Oscadal - Lemmings_Intro.sap
Filip Golewski - Echo_Sampled.sap
Daniel Numan - Psychodelic_Acied.sap
Ireneusz Radzikowski - Savage.sap
Filip Oscadal - Brutal_Recall_Demo_Bonus.sap
Filip Oscadal - Digi_Synth.sap
Filip Oscadal - Vaxeen_Vaxeen_4U.sap
Lukasz Sychowicz - King_of_Agregat.sap
Mega_Player_151_Hidden_mus.sap


As you can see...: there is no Jet Set Willy or Draconus or else.
Draconus for example could have been a non-plus-ultra song if there were Digi-Drums used... Also I like digis very well, there are tunes who really don't need them: Deathland for example. But the Draconus song needet hardly some digis to be a complete song.

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Posted Tue Jul 8, 2003 4:06 PM

@ TMR

...and imagine what a c64 coder can do with 128 or 256 bytes per scanline video ram... ;)

here some examples (not yet expanded to 256 or 128)

http://www.s-direktn...s/k_nadj/i.html

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Posted Tue Jul 8, 2003 4:07 PM

aarg... wrong forum... ;) sorry for that...

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Posted Wed Jul 9, 2003 1:21 AM

Heaven/TQA said:

@ TMR  

...and imagine what a c64 coder can do with 128 or 256 bytes per scanline video ram... ;)

here some examples (not yet expanded to 256 or 128)

http://www.s-direktn...s/k_nadj/i.html

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What demo(s) are the first 2 screenshots from? I wouldnt mind checking those out!

The 3rd screenshot looks like its from the Numen Demo, by Taquart, am I right ? :)

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Posted Wed Jul 9, 2003 6:05 AM

check the links... ;)

non of the above productions are included in numen as numen is highend optimised code... above intros where coded around 1996/97 by me.... you'll find them here

http://www.s-direktn...s/k_nadj/i.html and
http://www.uni-karls.../~Marek.Tomczyk on the atari pages in the demo corner section...

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Posted Wed Jul 9, 2003 11:33 AM

Back on topic... Ahem... ;)

Another one I really like is X-Ray's Typewriter. By the way, the SAP archive has been down. Anyone know another place to get it?

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Posted Wed Jul 9, 2003 12:02 PM

bryede said:

By the way, the SAP archive has been down. Anyone know another place to get it?

 -Bry

Never mind... found it. :P

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Posted Wed Jul 9, 2003 2:21 PM

Call me a minimalist, but the theme to Boulder Dash is one of my favorite bits of Atari music. Makes me cringe though listening to it in SAP... at 50Hz emulation it's soooooo sloooowwww.

Electrician theme is catchy too.

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Posted Wed Jul 9, 2003 2:22 PM

The theme to Boulder Dash is NICE, GOOD CALL

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Posted Fri Jul 11, 2003 2:21 AM

bryede said:

I was just wondering what everyone's favorite 8-bit tune was. I really like some of the .sap stuff that's been produced, and I've been looking through places like the Grayscale site. Anyway, I'll pick some favorites and post them too (404error is awfully cool).

   -Bry

Draconus (first XL music that really impressed me from an artistic point of view and to a slightly lesser degree, technically, and I still love it), the Leuchtturm Demo from Hobby Tronic 1990 (anyone got this in SAP format? MY first encounter with XL digi-drum music and love the way it fits with the arrangement and is not just added for the sake of it. Haven't seen it in the ASMA collection yet), BMX Simulator, Warhawk, Plastron, Black Lamp, Amaurote...

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Posted Sun Aug 24, 2003 4:11 AM

As for me, some of my favourite Atari tune are:

Draconus by Adam Gilmore - title tune
Black Lamp by Richard Munns - title tune
Lemmings Preview by HMC from Slovakia (music by Fred Brooker)
Wodospadem Czasu by Jakub Husak (from the SOFTSYNTH program!!!)
Time by Lukasz Sychowicz
Cubeniculosis by Grzegorz Kwiatek
Middle Ages by Dariusz Wasilewski

All of these are available in ASMA's SAP archive, I think.
BTW. it seems ASMA is dead since there are no new updates for a long time... :roll: :x
Although I personally converted about 200 tunes or so into SAP, I hope that more people will come and help for this archive. For example, I never heard (in SAP format) nice digitunes by THE GATEKEEPER from Holland. :-/
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