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From: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Music on Amiga is not the same
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Date: 17 Nov 89 02:48:57 GMT
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How many old C64 owners/users are there out there?  I persuaded my parents to
buy one over the course of years...first Christmas, we got the computer...a
few months later we got a Datasette (cassette tape)...second Christmas we got
a disk drive (1541, slow as he**)...few months later I bought a Fast Load
cartridge from Epyx (sped that 1541 up real good at the time)...third Christmas
we got a printer...

[Funny, they agreed to get my A2000 system as an educational expense. :-) ]

Anyway, I 'obtained' a *lot* of games for the C64 (that's mostly what I used
it for) and I was really struck by the incredible quality in the theme music
on those games.  The programmers really seemed to put some time into pushing
the C64's SID (sound chip) to its limits.  I particularly remember the games
Gyruss (Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D minor), Trolls and Tribulations (had
assorted Bach, Mozart, etc), Rambo (cool music, non-classical), Bump-N-Jump
(don't know what it's called, but it's classical), and many others.  I also
used Compute's SIDPlayer/Editor program (actually bought it!) and I like alot
of the songs done on the C64.  Particulary nice is the C64 version of Bach's
Two-Part Invention #13 --- this was the theme music for the C64 commercials of
the early 1980s...anyway,

I do not 'obtain' games for the Amiga (improved sense of morals/ethics) so
I do not know if anyone has managed to create similar sounding stuff in Amiga
music.  The C64 had a certain sound to it that is hard to duplicate exactly.
For one thing, most Amiga music uses digitized drums and instruments which
were not available on the C64.  Still, the C64 was/is a gem of a music machine
in its own simple-computer-music way.

Recently while I was home, I discovered that the SID in my C64 has gone bad and
not all of the 3 voices play correctly.  *Sigh*  So, I just got a little
sentimental about the whole thing and wondered if anyone had similar opinions
of C64 music and C64 game music?  Also, does anyone know of games for the
Amiga that have a more simplistic music to them---preferably sounding like the
C64 game music.  You know, a SID chip emulator on the Amiga that would play
any song arranged for Compute's SIDPlayer would be incredibly cool!  Dreams...

reminiscing to the glory days of 8-bits,

# Baird McIntosh  "...Can you hear me running; can you hear me calling you?" #
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