Commodore Remix

Just want to say this looks like a very good idea to make ONE forum for all, including the new AMIGAremix-site. I guess most of us did own both a C64 and an AMIGA.
Me: 2 working C64s, one A500, one A1230 (32 MB RAM for OctaMED), and a plotter for the C64 to name something very special
oh, and... two working 1541-II, a 1531, a 1531-clone, two action-replay cartridges

C64, Amiga 500 (+0,5 MB RAM), Atari 1040 ST.

Ah, right! The ATARI for Cubase, got ya!

c64 + 2 x 1541 (modified with dolphin dos), amiga 500 + 0,5mb
and a amiga 2000 (4mb + 2 disk drives)....but i sold everything, in
1992 to buy some music hardware.....


btw. i remember my father bought the c64 used for 1400,- DM, the
second floppy i bought later (1984) for 350,- DM...those where funny
days, playing with whole familiy 'Declathon' and the 'Summer Games' series.....

do anyone remember 'Section 8' & 'FCG'

cheers 2Klang

right, putzi ! what a splendid idea to join forces !

my 'commodore' list :
- c 64 (1984), cassette port fried
- c 64 (aldi), buggy sid
- vc 1541, overheats after 30min operation time
- vc 1541 c(?), with selfmade airvents to help cooling
- vc 1541 II, good condition but white cover turned sick-yellow (yuck)
- vc 1530, new cabeling, alignment screw enlarged for easier justage
- "vc 1530 clone", dunno where i found that.
- vc 1531 (perhaps a second one?)
- 2 * c 16, never finished expanding the memory to 64 kb.
- mps 803, does somebody know where to find ribbon cartridges for that?
- final cartridge III, with selfmade wire remote control. i liked fc II better
- a 500, kickstart 1.2, with 512kb internal expansion board plus ms-dos-emulator, an external 2mb ram expansion & 20mb hdd

(i needed 10 years to collect it all, still have this junk around and keep it from rotting away)

I had:

-2 C64 (1 classic german one, 1 white one [old chassis]).
-1 Amiga 500.
-1 Amiga 500+.
-1 Amiga 1200 030/050+882.

Now, I have:

-2 C64 (1 classic german one, 1 classic Uk one).
-1 A4000 060/50.

Cheers.

C=64 (The Breadbin) with a 1541 disk drive and a 1702 monitor.

An Amiga 500 with 2.4Mb of Memory and a 20Mb (!!!) Hard disk and of course my Ataris, a 520ST and a 1024ST with a Megafile 20Mb hard disk and a Unitor MIDI port. Those were the days

How about tracking in the old days on the AMIGA? I think I read that DHS and MAF used OctaMED, like I did. Anyone else?

putzi wrote:How about tracking in the old days on the AMIGA? I think I read that DHS and MAF used OctaMED, like I did. Anyone else?

That's not correct:

I used OctaMED for midi.
I used everything else for amiga music, from the very first Aegis Sonix to the latest programs that showed up in 'till 1998.

About tracking: it was a lot of fun!

You see: today we have external gears and a lot of possibilities with softsynths and softeffects, so we have much less to worry to get the desired sound.

At the times, the way to go was ProTracker with an 8bit sampler connected to the parallel port.

You just sampled on the fly the needed sound.
The problem wasn't all in get it right, but to make it fit.

Make it fit in memory (demo coders were always breaking balls to have free memory) and make it fit in the track, as Mahoney can withness.
4 tracks (and 4 voices of polyphony) are tricky, but definitely fun.
You had to think how to make things. How to render effects.
Much like with a SID and 3 channels.

I was in the demoscene, without ever been known outside italy.
But in Italy, i was considered, for a certain time, the uber-musician

Mostly pyratronik, n-joy and me (from IBB), Filippetto (Vega), and some few others were ruling the amiga italian music scene in the early 90s, but very talented guys showed up eventually later, when we already left.

Good days, if you ask me.

cheers.

In the 80s, I only had a c16. My brother had the c64. He gave it to me in 1991.

1992 I bought my A500, with the Technosound Turbo II Sampler. At the very beginning, I was using Noisetracker, then StarTrekker, and finally and elaborately ProTracker.

Nowadays I still have the A500, 3 breadbox c64, 1 modern c64, 1541c, a Datasette, Final Cartridge III. All functional and ready for action!

Oh my...

I originalle had a C64, which I then sold to buy an Amiga 500, which I then sold to buy an Amiga 1200.

Today I have (deep breath ):

VIC-20
VC-20
C64 x3
C64C x2
C64G
SX-64 x2 (but one doesn't work)
C16
C128 x2
Amiga 500 x3 (one with kick 1.2 the others with kick 1.3)
Amiga 600
Amiga 1000
Amiag 1200 x2
Amiga 4000/030
PC 10-III
PC 20-III (But sadly the HD is dead)
PC 30-III x3 (but one with a dead motherboard)
PC C486T

I think that's it. For Commodore computers, that is...Then I have Atari 520STm, 520ST+, 1040STf, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, ZX Spectrum, Spectrum+, Amstrad CPC464 x2, a shitload of various PC's and CP/M machines and whatnot.

Should be somewhere between 80 and 100 computers in all...

I have: one C64, one C128 and one A1200. I used to have an A500, but I sold it. I wish I had room for one though, since a lot of old games don't work on the 1200.

And as a side note, I'm glad to see that I was right when I said that Commodore and Amiga owners weren't totally different beings as a certain, special, someone claimed and gave me hell for.

putzi wrote:How about tracking in the old days on the AMIGA? I think I read that DHS and MAF used OctaMED, like I did. Anyone else?

my most famous work on the amiga are:

Red Sector Demomaker PT.1 & PT.2 for DATA BECKER....
(i did some logos,fonts & animation objects....)

The Classic Demo for TRSI & DEFJAM
features many covers of 64er tunes...
(which i did together with two other guys from FCG, SMF & Romeo Knight)

greetz to:TEK(banana), Jewels, TRSI(irata), DOC, PBA, SMF, TDI, KGB, Jabba...and all i have forgotten....(hey, greetings... that's oldskool....)


cheers 2Klang

Wow. That's quit amazing, 2Klang...

Romeo Knight was one of my favourite composers, I studied his tracks over and over (very cool: 1989-A number).

And the Demomaker helped me looking cool, hehe...
I never was a coder at all...

2Klang wrote:my most famous work on the amiga are:

Red Sector Demomaker PT.1 & PT.2 for DATA BECKER....
(i did some logos,fonts & animation objects....)

Hey! Wolk and I used Demomaker to do the intro of a "tv-show" we made in high school.

Demomaker made me go bonkers! It was a nice idea but terribly buggy...though it worked like a charm to make intro-stuff for video-productions.