again... wow
don't know what to say, really...
As far as Dark Side goes, that was influenced greatly by two pieces of music that kept running thru my head at the time... the James Bond theme (!) and the entire B-side of 'Umma Gumma' by Pink Floyd - I think I managed to capture the suspense from both of these in the track (which, I think was around 10 minutes before wrapping).
I did not receive the best of treatment from Edge software at the time (as many others also found out to their cost) but the music for the games were always fun to do
Tetris was a strange one... I'd just managed to talk to Phil (known as Gilbert on Compunet) and Ian (the original author of the base ariston) about adding a 4th channel using synthesized samples through the NMIs, and they were writing the C64 version of Tetris at the time, so it was kinda assumed that I'd do the music for it
Anyway it took about a week to write, and I had great fun tweaking as much of the code as I could to get it to sound the way it did. It was odd that many people thought that the sampled sound were the "tom-toms' - actually they were pure SID, the sample was the low end guitar chord that could be heard all the way throughout!
I wasn't too happy with the percussion sounds that the player was producing, and at the time I spoke to Charles and Jeroen of the Maniacs of Noise; they wanted to know how I did the 'phasing' effect of the SID, so I sent them the code for the player, they returned it after getting what they wanted from it, and also they had redone a section of the code that gave some great drum effects! I think the first time I used the new drums was for "Ball Game" and then for "Scuba Kidz".
I'd added and changed a lot of the player code since its original incarnation, and the conversion of the player from C64 to 16 bit (both Amiga and ST) I managed with the help of a very good friend who lived locally - Chris from Bury St. Edmunds. He was probably the best programmer I had ever worked with, and wrote some great games
I may go through some of the C64 pieces I did on the tracker one of these days, if time and inclination permits... if so I'll be sure of letting you guys know, so you can tell me how bad I've gotten now I'm approaching senility! hehehe....
Anyways it was great to chat with you guys, and the reminiscing works wonders for the old ego
Take care
OMG!! It's HIM!!!
