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From: mitchell@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Evan Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Music on Amiga is not the same
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Date: 20 Nov 89 21:18:14 GMT
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In article <89324.115732UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>
>BallBLazer was created by a guy named Peter Langston, a sort of Da Vinci
>type guy.  He was on leave from Bell Communications Research aka Bellcore,
>which is the place the the guys at Bell Labs think of as the far out
>research guys.  Langston is the creator of many of the landmards of
>Unix computing, and also an occaomplishedmusician.
>
>One thing that makes the BallBlazer music good is that it is algorithmic---
>that is, it doesn't really repeat exactly, though it stays within a tight
>framework.
>
>PS--Oral history means I am making this all up.

Really?  Sounds good to me.  BTW, wasn't the original Ballblazer (and rescue
from Fractalus) designed on the greatest 8-bit of all time, the Atari 800?
I remember being amazed at the fact that they could squeeze more than 16K into
a cartridge...

-Evan


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