My all-time favorite chiptune is the Monty on the Run Commodore 64 game soundtrack, composed by Rob Hubbard in 1985.
Hubbard made the C64's three-channel mono SID audio chip sing and dance. My favorite bits are the guitar solo in the middle of the tune, and the accordion solo at the end.
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@metin And to think how these tunes were made without proper music software. This was probably done straight into assembler code. I’ve done it too and it involves staring at 8-bit hex numbers which often contain packed information, changing them, assembling the code (which, in my memory, took up to 5 seconds) before you could hear what you had actually done. Yet a lot of amazing music was done that way!
Small review of this audio / style of making music...
@yth @metin @dentangle Thinking of great feats, people deliberately put in difficult or restricted conditions can get the best out of them in another way...
Seems cruel / long way around but true - and if we could only make things fun and creative again then we 'could' have fun gain even in the similar #Capitalism / #Capitalistic style of cruelty while creating again.
But because it's almost all been sterilised / mechanized / automated, probably we don't (what do you folks think?).
It's natural too that once it's 'not new' any more we, the industry or people tries something else and 'new' goes on to spend 30million on buying Hollywood's E.T. game (which is just insane for example!) only to speed up Atari going bankrupt! Ah shit happens and maybe they were trying to do a Terminator type thing using the name.
I think difficult situations in #Capitalism and other institutions might use this kind of difficulty level / long way around for get stuff out of people (more stressfully) like Phd's, writing books, or in research, but shows a lot can be done.
Time to move on perhaps to making people better now tech is done and from these times, that have lots of good stuff to replay for us... but really we left people / our own development behind and feels like even an excuse not to make better people / increase their 'logic' chips and code (of conducts)...
P.S = About the tune
I thought the bomb sound at 4.02 interleaved with another sparkling sound was a bit out of context with the rest. Nothing too bad but yeah like a kid that came along and pressed it while dad was working! (the bomb sound sounded like a new trick of 'two sounds at once' probably new/unheard of at the time)
The track is much like classical tune but a sped up ! Thoughts welcome!
