Thursday, 13 June 2019

Doctor Who Theme Recording

A few days ago, Arkanix Labs released 'PETSCII Doctors,  a new C64 PETSCII graphic collection featuring code and music by me.  Information about the collection can be found here...

I wrote the rendition of the Doctor Who theme music using a PC based tool called Goattracker.  The SID music from the graphic collection has been recorded using a 8580 SID equipped C64c, run through my Dolby amp.

I've uploaded a recording to my SoundCloud account.  Listen to the music below; if the player does not appear, hear it on it's SoundCloud page here...



Tuesday, 11 June 2019

PETSCII Doctors

Arkanix Labs has just released a little graphics collection called 'PETSCII Doctors', which features (funnily enough) PETSCII versions of all, at time of writing, 13 Doctors from the BBC television program 'Doctor Who', as well as a PETSCII time vortex effect complete with TARDIS accompanied with a SID rendition of the famous theme tune.


On this occasion, I've handled the code and music, while helping my Grandson, w0rm, learn the ways of C64 by producing PETSCII block renderings of the Doctors in my soon to be released C64 cross-dev screen editor 'ChillED'.  Thanks go to Moloch for continued advice and suggestions.

The whole bundle has been dedicated to T.M.R as a thanks for all his patience while I continue to grapple with 6502 coding.

The graphics collection can be downloaded from CSDb here or direct from this blog here.  Both download locations supply a .zip file containing the collection itself to run on a real C64 or emulator, as well as the 6502 source, binaries and work files.  It is also available on GitHub here.

EDIT: 100bit^NiS has added PETSCII Doctors to Pouët.  Find it here... 

EDIT 2:  It seems someone has taken the time to make a video of this little PETSCII graphics collection and put it up on YouTube.  The video should appear below but if not, it's on the page here...