Yesterday, Cosine released 'Oldest Style', an entry into the 'Crack Intro Creation Competition 2018' on CSDb. The intro features a new C64 8580 SID tune called 'Bas Braster' written by yours truly. Information about the intro and compo can be found here...
I wrote the music for the intro using a PC based tool called Goattracker. The SID has been recorded using a 8580
SID C64c run through my Dolby amp.
I've just uploaded a recording to my SoundCloud
account; listen to the SID tune below. If the player does not appear, hear it on it's SoundCloud page here...
Sunday, 25 November 2018
Saturday, 24 November 2018
Oldest Style
Another Cosine release today featuring a short tune by me! 'Oldest Style' is an entry into the CSDb 'Intro Creation Competition 2018' organised by Didi.
T.M.R has (kind of) billed this intro as a 'sequel of sorts' to a Cosine entry to the same competition from 2014 and he explains that while it may look simple, the code...
"jumps through quite a few hoops in order to make an otherwise silly technique work, using unrolled code and waiting for the C64's raster register to change before updating over 184 scanlines. There's further unrolled code updating those routines as well to animate them so this intro decrunches from $0400 to just shy of $3fff."
The music was originally written (along with a couple of other unfinished efforts) for the CSDb 'Crack Intro Music Competition 2017', but ended up not being used because it was too long and didn't work well on a 6581 SID; it was written with 8580 in mind. It has been finished and used here instead, having been given the name 'Bas Braster' which is Welsh for... well, just look it up...
The intro can be downloaded from the Cosine website here or it's compo entry page on CSDb here...
You can also download the intro direct from this blog, with the .zip file including not only the demo on a .d64 image, but the music as a .sid file to run through SIDPlay or similar and the music in .sng format which can be loaded into Goattracker, the utility in which it was composed. Just click here...
T.M.R has also recorded a video of the intro in action and uploaded it to YouTube. The player should appear below, but if not watch it here...
T.M.R has (kind of) billed this intro as a 'sequel of sorts' to a Cosine entry to the same competition from 2014 and he explains that while it may look simple, the code...
"jumps through quite a few hoops in order to make an otherwise silly technique work, using unrolled code and waiting for the C64's raster register to change before updating over 184 scanlines. There's further unrolled code updating those routines as well to animate them so this intro decrunches from $0400 to just shy of $3fff."
The music was originally written (along with a couple of other unfinished efforts) for the CSDb 'Crack Intro Music Competition 2017', but ended up not being used because it was too long and didn't work well on a 6581 SID; it was written with 8580 in mind. It has been finished and used here instead, having been given the name 'Bas Braster' which is Welsh for... well, just look it up...
The intro can be downloaded from the Cosine website here or it's compo entry page on CSDb here...
You can also download the intro direct from this blog, with the .zip file including not only the demo on a .d64 image, but the music as a .sid file to run through SIDPlay or similar and the music in .sng format which can be loaded into Goattracker, the utility in which it was composed. Just click here...
T.M.R has also recorded a video of the intro in action and uploaded it to YouTube. The player should appear below, but if not watch it here...
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Tubularween Recording
Yesterday, Cosine released my 'Old School Demo III', a simple Halloween demo coded in response to a challenge on the DBF Interactive forum. Information about the demo can be found here...
I composed the music for the demo and it's called 'Tubularween' for the riff from Tubular Bells that features before the track goes off on it's own merry way. It's an original 4 channel module using samples from disk images of the old Amiga ST-XX sample disk packs, along with some 8bit quality samples I ripped from famous horror film scenes. I attempted to make the track sound like it could have been from an Amiga demo circa 1988.
I've just uploaded the music to my SoundCloud account; if you want to hear it in a music tracker you can follow the link to the demo above and in the .zip file you'll find the 'mod' in ProTracker format.
If the player doesn't appear below, you can hear the music on my SoundCloud page here...
I composed the music for the demo and it's called 'Tubularween' for the riff from Tubular Bells that features before the track goes off on it's own merry way. It's an original 4 channel module using samples from disk images of the old Amiga ST-XX sample disk packs, along with some 8bit quality samples I ripped from famous horror film scenes. I attempted to make the track sound like it could have been from an Amiga demo circa 1988.
I've just uploaded the music to my SoundCloud account; if you want to hear it in a music tracker you can follow the link to the demo above and in the .zip file you'll find the 'mod' in ProTracker format.
If the player doesn't appear below, you can hear the music on my SoundCloud page here...
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