Game music

[elminster]

This post was originally at the Wish list, but it became off-topic, so I\'ll continue it here.

The next one music track is from an old game (1993). Here it is:

http://bigbrother.vac.hu/~einstein/music/game1.ogg
(1,3 MB)
Here is a higher quality version:
http://bigbrother.vac.hu/~einstein/music/game1_high.ogg
(3,7 MB)

It is kind of an old-school music (in terms of quality). Can you guess what game is it from? Come on big old-timers! I tell you, that it is not from the 16 bit and above PCs, but from the 8 bit world.
If you have no idea of the game\'s name, I\'m courious what does the music makes you think to? I am particularly interested in what sort of terrain/season/weather appears before you while listening? (Some music-psichology...)

Please be patient about the download, I only have 24 kbyte/s connection out. I\'ll post the original version (a LOT smaller) as soon as someone finds out the game
Sorry, but knowing the original format would help a lot and it would blow the fun away.

Thanks for your time.

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[Xalthar]

woah, that\'s some old music.. I have no idea what game it\'s from.. the only game that has music like that I can remember anything from is bubble-bobble but I don\'t think it\'s from that :P

[Davis]

How do you run a .ogg file?

[Zeus]

I\'ve played my share of games in the past and I don\'t think I\'ve EVER heard that...

P.S.  Winamp runs .ogg files

[elminster]

Okay, I\'ll help a bit. The music\'s original format is .sid, that is it was originally played by a SID chip. Does this ring any bells? Look in the 8 bit PC world, even before 286. A computer, that had 64K ram system...

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E.

[kronon]

commodor console?
.ogg is just a not so standard \"standard format\". Xmms can play ogg. But you\'ll have to use linux for that. There are prob some codecs for windows.

[Davis]

I\'m getting Linux once I get my new comp, so... yeah.

[elminster]

Ogg is becoming the new standard, so you better \"update your bookmarks\" as they say
BTW, Winamp (both latest classic and 3) can play ogg files. I used ogg, because mp3 compressing is not free, and I don\'t have the money to pay it. While ogg is free (and in fact far better than mp3).

OK, back to topic:

Originally posted by kronon
commodor console?

You mean Commodore 64 Personal Computer or C64 shortly

Actually you are right. Congratulations!
The music is from a C64 game, called \"Creatures 2 - Torture Trouble\", one of the best made games on the C64 ever. It definitely pushes the C64 graphics to the limits. The original music, in it\'s original form is here:
http://bigbrother.vac.hu/~einstein/music/creatures_2.sid

To play it, you\'ll need classic (v2.x) Winamp (Winamp 3 is just a pile of shit) and you\'ll need the SIDAmp plugin. Get it from
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~adsoft/sidamp/
Beware though that it is a bit buggy and sometimes tends to crash Winamp. It works fine otherwise.

If you wish to play the game itself, head on to
http://viceteam.bei.t-online.de/
and get the latest Windows binary of the VICE C64 emulator, then get the disk image of the game from
http://www.c64.com
then attach it to drive 8, and type
load\"*\",8,8
then hit enter, and when it\'s ready, type
run
then hit enter. Setup the joystick of the emulator to your keyboard, and there you go. Tell me if you can get through the first level, I\'ll gratulate to you if you do. It took me a while back then (I was only 9 that time though )
Don\'t laugh at the graphics! That\'s what nearly 1 MHz (yes, ONE MHz) can give you.

In the
http://bigbrother.vac.hu/~einstein/music/
folder, you can find some SIDs, and some mp3s. Those mp3s are the \"rewamped\" versions of the old musics. Definitely worth to take a look at.

BTW, is there anyone here from the C64 days? I\'m just courious whether there is anyone here, who ever had a C64. Is there?

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Greetings,
E.

[Darkmoon]

I still have my old Commodore 64, although it no longer functions.  I also probably have the old cassette tape drive that came with it.  It was a slow thing, even back in the day, to have to rewind the tape to find your programs.  I remember getting the \"latest\" floppy drive (5 1/2\" ) and being so proud....