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[The Kernel Loaf]

Anyone remember System 3 from the Commodore 64 days? I remember some incredible tunes from some of their games:

• The Last Ninja
• Flimbo's Quest
• International Karate

Other C64 classics:

• Wizball
• Monty on the Run
• Titanic Blinky
• Klax
• Boulder Dash
• Chase HQ
• Slightly Magic
• Dizzy (of course)
• Commodore International Soccer

Is it just me, or is Treasure Island Dizzy one of the hardest games ever? One mistake and you are fucked.

[Bigsby]

C64's a pile of wank. Spectrum FTW.

[The Kernel Loaf]

Originally Posted by Bigsby

C64's a pile of wank. Spectrum FTW.

That's what every Spectrum owner says. It's unfortunate you landed with the inferior system but oh well.

[Le Stu]

Originally Posted by The Kernel Loaf

That's what every Spectrum owner says. It's unfortunate you landed with the inferior system but oh well.

I owned a speccy and then a C64. The Spectrum had an amazing collection of games despite being a complete piece of shit, barely colour, no hardware sprites or scrolling, bleep bleep tacky rubbery dotcrawl infested stupid keyword BASIC implementation product of a true British entrepreneurial genius.

*and Parallax music was bangin'.

**and Delta. Actually, anything by Hubbard or Galway or Daglish was awesome.

[Pierre Von Mondragon]

Speedball II, Brutal Deluxe all the way!

[Le Stu]

Originally Posted by Pierre Von Mondragon

Speedball II, Brutal Deluxe all the way!

That was written by John Foxx of UNDERPASS! fame wasn't it? (the music, I mean)

Amiga music was the best. Commodore stuffed an analogue synthesiser in the C64 and a Fairlight sampler in the Amiga.

[The Kernel Loaf]

Originally Posted by Le Stu

**and Delta. Actually, anything by Hubbard or Galway or Daglish was awesome.

Rob Hubbard is a genius.

I managed to pick up his C64 Orchestra CD which I think is now out of print. The box it came in was fucking cool:



Nowadays, you are either a musician or a programmer. Back then, you had to be both - this included creating a sequencer program that could interpret specified notes using the SID chip and arrange them as music. Quite incredible to think that so many composers developed their own sequencers to do this. All composers need to do these days is record the song, save as a general audio file format and slap it onto the game disc, with the programmers inserting about one line of code to play the song at a particular point in the game.

I have a huge respect for video game soundtrack composers, especially before the PS1/Saturn/N64 era. My favourite game soundtrack of all time has to be Streets of Rage. The soundchip in the Mega Drive was horrible compared to the SNES, but what Yuzo Koshiro pulled off with that game was absolutely amazing. He even got asked to DJ in nightclubs after the game was released.

YouTube - Streets Of Rage 1 - Beatnik On The Ship

[Pierre Von Mondragon]

C64 sound chip VSTs are ace. UNDERPASS!! was nae bad, considering he was in Ultravox. But then they are MEANT to be one of those bands that were good til they were famous, and then were shite (cf. also Simple Minds). Maybe they were, mebbe they werena, but why take the risk of sitting through some old Ultravox!, just in case its good, when it would probably mean nothing to me.
How the hell did they get one of these...

into one of these?


Badly??

[Le Stu]

Microchip technology

Here's what the Amiga looked like before the circuits were integrated on VLSI chips. Jay Miner wired up thousands of logic chips by hand to create the custom chipset of the Amiga, including the Paula soundchip which offered 4 channel 8 bit digital sound back in 1986 (almost but not quite as good as the early Fairlights)



And I used to be a huge Ultravox fan but they probably were better as Ultravox!

[ca_gere]

These pictures are giving me a hard on.