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thinking '2nd Reality' or even 'Arte' are good examples of what the first demos looked
like. I mean, anyday now, someone's going to code an FLI logo with a DYCP scroller,
thinking they've invented something new...There is one
reason there is a global demoscene today, and that reason is the C64." Per Almered of Excellence In Art |
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Talk MACHINE: C64 (RUNS IN C64S (PC) v2.5 TOO) FILENAME: xia_talk.d64 SIZE: 21 552 BYTES IF YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH THE music section on this site, you've probably noticed something of an obsession with Commodore's ancient C64 machine. Eventually, in early 1997, I just couldn't
resist coding a small demo for that machine. Never having owned one, I spent days
downloading documentation on the hardware, rewriting my graphics packer from the Atari,
and writing small tools and utilities that I needed. All that work to make one
demo for a machine that's hardly available anywhere in the world. Oh
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The
telephone call MUSIC FILE FOR SIDPLAY FILENAME: telephon.zip SIZE: 2 105 BYTES AFTER WEEKS OF SEARCHING, I finally found a C64 music editor that I liked. This Kraftwerk cover is the first song I finished in it. I had lots of fun doing those silly phone-beeps. Per Almered |
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Sub MUSIC FILE FOR SIDPLAY FILENAME: sub.zip SIZE: 2 396 BYTES JUST FOR FUN, I PUT together 3 or 4 small songs for a computer game, but they were never used in the final release. I liked one of the songs so much I thought it deserved a C64 rendition. The filtered bass and hihats came as a nice
surprise when I finally got around to listening to it outside of the C64-emulator. 8-)Per Almered |
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DDND
(short) MUSIC FILE FOR SIDPLAY FILENAME: ddndshrt.zip SIZE: 2 112 BYTES THIS IS THE SECOND SONG I made in JCH's music editor for the C64. Those with a good ear for basslines might recognize a little something from the music section. Per Almered |
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Hemingway MUSIC FILE FOR SIDPLAY FILENAME: hemingwa.zip SIZE: 2 259 BYTES FINALLY GETTING TO GRIPS WITH JCH's editor and the way it handles arpeggios, I put together this little tune. As Tomas Danko JR (one of the many deservedly legendary C64 musicians I've had the pleasure of talking to) pointed out: "It's 'Rock me Amadeus!'". 8-) Per Almered |
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Nothing
compares 2 U MUSIC FILE FOR SIDPLAY FILENAME: nothingc.zip SIZE: 1 769 BYTES Not much to say about this one, really, except it's supposed to sound this way, really. Used as some sort of joke in the
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Fatale MUSIC FILE FOR SIDPLAY FILENAME: fatale.zip SIZE: 2 674 BYTES I COULDN'T RESIST THE CHALLENGE of converting an 8-channel mod to a 3-channel C64 song. Can you blame me? (Oh, you can? Well, but, I... [ouch!]) Per Almered |
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Gogh MUSIC FILE FOR SIDPLAY FILENAME: van_gogh.zip SIZE: 2 588 BYTES THIS IS THE SONG USED in Talk, my first (and probably, but not hopefully) last C64-demo. It's written to fit into the demo, although some of the synchronized effects originally intended never fit into the memory of the C64... 8-( Per Almered |
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Under
norrskenet MUSIC FILE FOR SIDPLAY FILENAME: norrsken.zip SIZE: 2 376 BYTES ORIGINAL AUTHOR: MATS WESTER HERE'S ANOTHER COVER, THIS TIME of Swedish group Nordman's song "Under norrskenet". I competed with it at Hype '97, and it placed third, which is ok, considering all the other entries were xm's or mod's. Per Almered |
