Bryan Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 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... sTeVE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sauron Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 What? No one has mentioned the theme to Alternate Reality yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted July 8, 2003 Author Share Posted July 8, 2003 I also really like "porazka" by X-Ray (from the X-Ray sap collection on the Grayscale site). -Bry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Jet Set Willy has impressive music, and its says it was made by Rob Hubbard. Wasnt he just a C64 music composer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Jet Set Willy has impressive music, and its says it was made by Rob Hubbard. Wasnt he just a C64 music composer? 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Was Hubbard the guy who created Moondust? That was the trippiest game I've ever played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 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... hve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 @ 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-direktnet.de/homepages/k_nadj/i.html http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Marek.Tomczyk...oft/titel50.com [/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 aarg... wrong forum... sorry for that... hve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 @ 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-direktnet.de/homepages/k_nadj/i.html http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Marek.Tomczyk...oft/titel50.com [/img] 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 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-direktnet.de/homepages/k_nadj/i.html and http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Marek.Tomczyk on the atari pages in the demo corner section... heaven/taquart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted July 9, 2003 Author Share Posted July 9, 2003 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? -Bry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted July 9, 2003 Author Share Posted July 9, 2003 By the way, the SAP archive has been down. Anyone know another place to get it? -Bry Never mind... found it. -Bry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe C. Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 The theme to Boulder Dash is NICE, GOOD CALL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lais Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dracon Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 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... 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. :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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