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Commodore Amiga platform The demogroup ‘Doctor Mabuse Orgasm Cracking’ or just D.O.C was behind one of the first SoundTracker releases, that was created by Karsten Obarski in 1987. D.O.C was a very productive group and there’s a lot of stuff … Continue reading
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Commodore Amiga platform Disclaimer: This article series doesn’t define the history of the intro/demo/megademo, for neither the Amiga nor any other platform. This is the point of view, I have chosen to write the article series, and in a way … Continue reading
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Commodore Amiga platform Thrust was a very active demo group, from Germany. They were especially active in the crack/spread of games. I believe that this demo was from the ‘Impossible Mission II‘ game for the Amiga. I remember this tune … Continue reading
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Commodore Amiga platform Disclaimer: This article series doesn’t define the history of the intro/demo/megademo, for neither the Amiga nor any other platform. This is the point of view, I have chosen to write the article series, and in a way … Continue reading
You can’t talk about chip-music on the Amiga, without automatically talking about David Whittaker. At the peak of the Amiga, David Whittaker was everywhere. With his trademark drumkit (especially the hi-hat) and the distorted guitar – and not to mention his unique music pattern.
Though I only know him from the Amiga, David Whittaker also made music for almost all the other computer platforms, at the time.
I have selected some of my favorite tunes from David Whittaker, in the upcoming posts.
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Source of inspiration and material: Wikipedia & LemonAmiga
I think most people got acquainted with Karsten Obarski through his music editor – the SoundTracker – and the music scores that came with it. And afterwards, a very large number of simple music- and demos discs, flooded the Amiga scene, where the music was composed with the SoundTracker or one of its successors. Doesn’t everyone remember the ‘D.O.C Musicpack‘?
I have to say, that I was completely blown away, the first time I heard Amegas, Crystal Hammer and Rallye Master.
I have selected some of my favorite tunes from Karsten Obarski, in the following posts.
Source of inspiration and material: Exotica & LemonAmiga
Disclaimer: This article series doesn’t define the history of the intro/demo/megademo, for neither the Amiga nor any other platform. This is the point of view, I have chosen to write the article series, and in a way I lived it. Your experience may vary.
I remember the first time I heard real samples played on the Amiga. It was at a friend’s house, and he had got his hands on a floppy disk from ‘Red Sector’ or was it from ‘Doctor Mabuse Orgasm Cracking’. I can’t remember, but I do remember that the sampled piece of music was ‘Flesh for Fantasy‘ by ‘Billy Idol‘. It sounded incredible. To think that this was possible, and you could do this at home – I was stunned!
In retrospect, the sampled Billy Idol song, was a bit like cheating.
The song was divided into smaller pieces that could be put together, by typing the name of the sample in CLi. The sampled pieces were named 1a, 2b, 3a, 3a, 3b and so forth.
Later we got the ‘Doctor Mabuse Orgasm Cracking’ music disk (musicpack) with Amegas, Crystal Hammer and Rallye Master all made by Karsten Obarski and we knew that this was the way to go, and this was, what we wanted to create.
And this was the start on a journey of demo-creating and music-making.
For every game, there has, since the very first game (almost) been music. This is often Title score-, In-game-, High-score music or even while loading the game (eg. Ocean, with their famous ‘Ocean Loader‘).
I’ve collected a few pieces of music for a couple of the games, which were the ones I played back then.
Commodore Amiga platform Take a trip back in time, and listen to some of the work of Thomas Canell. ‘Blinded by You’ and ‘All up 2 You’ as they sounds on the Commodore Amiga. ‘All up 2 You’ is a … Continue reading
Commodore Amiga platform Take a trip back in time, and listen to some of the work of Thomas Canell. ‘Qalculator’ or ‘Calculator’ as it sounds on the Commodore Amiga. This song was made during my period of strange titles and … Continue reading
Commodore Amiga platform Take a trip back in time, and listen to some of the work of Thomas Canell. I’ve gathered some tracks, all recorded directly from the Commodore Amiga.
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It does not stop here! A new editor has seen the light of day. A new editor for the Atari ST sound-chip emulator project, Project Ymer, (YM 2149) on the PC that functions as an extension of a project that was … Continue reading
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Masterplayer is an Adlib and OPL3 music and sound editor for the PC. MasterPlayer is far more advanced than “our” former players on both Atari ST and Amiga. And with 9 channels in the good old fashioned computer chiptune quality. Masterplayer, is like … Continue reading
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After a couple of audio projects on the PC and a big break from programming, Peter J wanted to get back his roots, on the Atari ST, and therefore he developed an Atari ST sound-chip emulator (YM 2149) – later … Continue reading
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Peter J phoned me the other day and asked if I could remember the time, he was working on a player version with sample support? He said that he had found something interesting in his archives … This was it – … Continue reading
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No doubt that Atari ST was pretty underplayed, here in Denmark, against the Commodore Amiga. The Atari ST was born to take over the throne of chiptunes from the king of chiptunes, the Commodore 64, but this never really happened … Continue reading