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13 June 1999 (copies gone: 1,450 approx)
Track listing is (and not necessarily in this order!):
Aztec Challenge (Tomb Raider Mix)
Warhawk (JarreSidMix)
Thalamusik 2000 (Zzap tape mix)
Batman the Caped Crusader (with Fred Gray on funk guitar: cool!) (Funk mix)
Terra Cresta (Apocalypse Mix)
Forbidden Forest (Filmscore Mix)
Chimera (West Coast mix)
Scarabeus (trust me: you'll understand why when you hear it) (Mysterious mix)
Galway is God 2000 (CD mix)
Elektraglide (which was composed by "Yakao", a session musician from the Gil Scott Herron band!!) (Saturday theme mix)
Trap (Extra orchestral mix)
Ghosts and Goblins (Spook Rock mix)
Comic Bakery (Danko Techno mix)
Reserve track in case of emergency:
Driller (Halloween cover mix!)
26 April 1999 (copies gone: 1,400 approx)
Short update to track pool:
Tracks added to BIT 2 and 3 but not on alpha
Scarabeus (Darren Izzard)
Master of Magic (Darren Izzard)
I've also now heard Aztec Challenge: it's well tribal.
Who is Darren Izzard? Otherwise known as "SeDi", he was behind the Flimbo's
Quest MIDIs, and the resultant MPEGs, and also composes for the theatre. There's some info
about him on the title page of the CD-ROM online. He composes in MIDI, and then I run the
resultant MIDI through equipment here. So I'm the Producer, I suppose. I must say, his
stuff is coming on fantastically, and the guy can work REALLY fast. Excellent. Driller and
Scarabeus are magnificent, and Master of Magic is coming on very well: it's very different
to the MIDI and MPEGs currently existing, which is good. It's amazing that a three voice
tune can be pushing 128 note polyphony and 36 note multimbrality! Rob's stuff always does
that: notice how he manages to change his instruments over time.
A mention to Bjorn Lynne, if I may. Apart from being a magical musician, Bjorn is also selling "Back in Time", and selling quite a few, too! Thanks Bjorn!
12 April 1999 (copies gone: 1,350)
It's a long job putting this CD together! I want to confirm that BIT 2 and 3 are being developed at the same time, with BIT 3 being released 5-6 months after BIT 2: I don't know how the track pool will be distributed yet across the two CDs.
Tracks added to BIT 2 and 3 but not on alpha
Elektraglide - (Darren Izzard)
Driller - (Darren Izzard)
Aztec Challenge (we got an agreement with Paul Norman: yay!) - Egyptian Mix by Peter
Connolly!
Bo Ryden (Daley Thompson's Decathlon Loader) - me
Knucklebusters - me (full length!!)
Bionic Commando - me
Sled (Fred Gray) - me
Batman the Caped Crusader - Fred 'n me
Tracks removed/no longer viable
WAR (Synth version) - artist unavailable
Tracks being written or planned which don't yet exist officially (vapourtunes)
Last Ninja Symphony - Benn D.
WAR, Spellbound, Dragon's Lair 2 - Rob H.
Mission AD, Green Beret, Warhawk (orchestral mixes) - Peter C.
Ghosts and Goblins - Mark Cooksey arrangement! Ocean Loader (me)
... many others!
Current active track pool:
Kentilla (Rob H)
Trap (Benn D)
Rob's Unknown Symphony (Rob H.)
Game Over (Jogeir/Martin)
Terra Cresta (Jogeir/Martin)
Galway is God 2000 (Jogeir/Martin)
Roland's Rat Race (Jogeir/Martin)
Helicopter Jagd (Jogeir/Martin) (all Jogeir's tunes are preapproved by Martin G.)
Warhawk, Chimera (me)
Times of Lore - Part 1 (me)
Comic Bakery Danko Mix
Forbidden Forest - Elfman mix (Peter Connolly)
I've also received a CD from Rob Hubbard of his EA 1993-1995 music (actually "Holmes" and "Shockwave 3DO") (classy music), which will be an additional Audio CD option on the page. Yay!
If you haven't already, download Ferrera's XMs. They're ace!
Other composer news: none really.
Release date of BIT 2? Still hoping for July: depends on which tracks are available and full-of-quality, and how soon.
Synth news: yay! they released an OS upgrade for my Supernova! It makes its SID emulation sound even better!! And now I have SysEx information about the Korg, I can emulate SID there too!!! Hehehe!!! Heheheheh!!!! {manic laughs}
BIT Promotional news: BIT tracklisted at www.videogamenews.com, on their new radio station. They will also be playing some of the MPEGs off the CD-ROM... and the University of California Radio station now broadcasts SID one day a week for an hour!! Amazing... you may yet heard BIT 2 previews there... :) Also, a forthcoming interview will be printed in one of the Future Publishing Mags written by Andy Roberts, Formerly of Apex, authors of Creatures. It will have interviews with Benn, Rob, Fred, Me, Kenz of Commodore Zone and Binary Zone PD and will be about "why computer soundtracks aren't as good as they used to be"...
Broken links: yeah, I know. All of the MPEG links on my game specific pages are broken. I've fixed half of them on my local web page, but it's a long job....
Anyway, gotta go. Email me if you've got any questions, and thanks for your patience!
24 January 1999 (copies stabilised at just under 1,250, plus 150 gone as review copies)
I've been out of it for a bit, I have... it all started when I started to examine SID pieces to recreate the instruments on the Supernova or the Korg Z1. A simple tool in Access to load in the tune and isolate the instruments for me.
One and a half months later, I have a system which recreates a SID in MIDI with all the pitch bends, ring modulation, sync, filters, PWM, etc on the Supernova. It's really complicated, but the whole project was necessitated by the fact that certain tunes are just not at the right tempo to be easily dealt with by SID2MIDI... I noticed earlier on that a lot of tunes are in 125bpm or 93.75bpm. Why these magic numbers? It's all tied in with how many thirty-second notes are represented by every fiftieth of a second. A driver taking the easy way out would have to do less maths by designating a x interrupts to every 32nd note. But Rob hardly ever follows these rules (Galway did, Follin did). This means that to stretch the piece to fit the barlines in Cakewalk, you need to lengthen the piece by a non-integer value: something no sequencer can do. This is especially irritating in something like "Knucklebusters", which starts off at 93.75, goes to 125, but then goes to 140 2/3bpm and keeps on speeding up. So, I wrote an Access program that takes a tempo map of the piece, generates timings to the bar for each event in the piece, and links this back to the original SID. Hey presto, you've got a full-length tidy MIDI of Knucklebusters.
Other problems to solve included: how to deal with ring modulation? On the C64, the output from one voice affects another voice when ring modulation is turned on. On an ordinary synth, you tend to have both parts of a sound playing the same thing with either a fixed or cyclic detune. The makers of the SID envisaged that if you were using a voice on the SID as a modulation source, you'd turn the voice off... but not Rob. Part of the classic C64 ringmod sound is in a musician taking advantage of the unexpected and dramatic extra harmonics and overtones produced when you modulate one voice from another. Genius, necessitated by the fact that Rob needed the three voices, and couldn't afford to turn one off... :) What this means to me is I had to create a shadow copy of each voice, containing the waveforms and frequency offsets from the voice it would affect if ring modulation was turned on. Then, the second part (oscillator) in the SID sound is detuned in real time to create the effect.
As a result of all this study of SID music, I came to the conclusion that SIDmusic is not so much to do with the SID itself, which is a fairly standard analog synth chip with design oddities that people exploited to make better music. SIDsound is to do with the way the composers drove the chip in real-time: the fact that each composer had to write his own driver for his own style of music, and synthesise their own sounds was one of the reasons the stuff was so memorable: it doesn't just take good music to make a piece memorable, it takes a unique "sound" (even just one unique "hook sound will do it: think of the flute in "Down Under", the solo lead in "Newsong", or the memorable bit in your favourite record for examples). This is why the SID composers nowadays are more attracted to classical music: although the instruments are standard, the way they can be combined to produce textures and sound washes is more akin to building complex sounds from simple waveforms than it is to the "one instrument playing the bass, one instrument playing strings" type of thing. so, ironically, sample based playback proves to be a straitjacket rather than a liberation.
I have now got base tracks down for Chimera, Bionic Commando and Warhawk. I'm working on one for Knucklebusters. Jogeir is very close to delivering his 5 tracks (Roland's Rat Race, Terra Cresta, Galway is God, Helicopter Jagd, Game Over). Trap is half finished. Rob is working on numerous classical versions of his pieces, of which I've heard two (Kentilla, new unnamed one). Fred has submitted Batman, and Sled will appear. Danko has submitted Comic Bakery. We're hoping Benn wll be able to finish an LN for one of the BITs, and Elektraglide will appear somewhere. Myself, I am planning lots of tracks: I've created some brilliant C64-like sounds on the Korg, which just ache to be played (Mission AD lead, Led Storm Organ, etc)... and I've finally created the Jarre string sound of my dreams... sigh.. I could listen to it for ever. And the booklet this time will be laid out and designed by Andreas Wallstrom, cool Swedish journalist.
As you can read from the above paragraph, a lot has been started, but less has been finished. I'm relying on busy people here (including me!!), so patience is needed. If you know of any nation specific portals that would be good to have a banner in (for instance, Yahoo Sweden), or if you know of any places on the Net it would be good to put a banner, I'd be grateful if you'd let me know!
This is going to be one awesome CD if everything goes to plan...
1 December 1998 (just under 1,200 copies sold) - Benn Weekend!
Well, here I am again. An amazing weekend... Benn popped by, and laid down 3/4 of "Trap" in a very concentrated two and a half hours... wow. He's such an awesome musician. While he was here, I got treated to impromptu versions of "Thing Bounces Back", numerous Eric Clapton guitar solos on an acoustic guitar left lying around, a version of William Wobbler (!), and other snippets... Trap is very much an full orchestral piece. Watching him play it was a revelation... :) Wotta nice guy. His son was really nice too (his name is Jake). I also got some photos... which I'll post as soon as I've got them developed and sent to Waz...
Fred Gray is currently taking English A Level!
Amiga Format gave us 90%, and Commodore Zone reviewed us too in more detail...
Last month I bought the equipment "BIT 2" will be done on (at least my bits)... it consists of a Novation Supernova 32 (which can easily do great C64 sounds, such as that Chimera lead sound, and the Warhawk leads), a Korg Z1 (same deal, awesome leads, this is my master keyboard now), and a Roland JV2080 with Orchestral and Voice expansion cards (which Benn really liked)...
Fred submitted his MIDI of "Batman, the Caped Crusader" for me to incorporate into BIT 2... wow! It's an excellent organ-y, reggae-y type tune: Fred's such an original composer!
There are other rumours about BIT 2, but I can't go into them... I don't want to create more vapourware than is strictly necessary... there's a real buzz about the project though, and some real talent working on it (I'm really looking forward to what Jogeir comes up with, and what Rob does with his new Yamaha DSP Factory and Orchestral sample set!)...
The CD sales seem to have died down a bit: whether that's seasonal or what, I don't know. I wish I had more time to do the sequel, and to update the web page more. Standards are really high now, and I'm still getting to grips with the new equipment, which should offset the "preset-techno-snob-hate" that turned some Dance-oriented musicians off BIT 1.
We're going to have at least one Dance mix on BIT 2: Comic Bakery from Danko!
26 September 1998 (over 1,000 copies sold - it's lucky I pressed more than 1000!!)
Fred Gray's a nice chap, and very talented (well, you've heard the music!!). He has kindly given us sheet music (signed) that he used when doing the FGTH music for a competition! So that's what we'll do. It's open to everybody with an email address. I'll accept postal entries, but I can't let all the mail purchasers of BIT know about the competition by post, unfortunately (prohibitive cost). I bet no one gets his choices right (they surprised me!). Runner-up prizes are some copies of BIT2.
Wow... in the last few days I heard that the Norwegian magazine "Tekno" has reviewed the CD. I knew this one was coming, since I was able to allow them to put the full MPEG of "Monty on the Run" on the cover CD. Strangely enough, not much has happened yet in terms of orders for this one: I am still finding that most sales come through the web, search engines or friendly partner pages. Thanks to all those who have linked to us: you're marvellous, you really are. Thanks to Jan Ramsdal for emailing me a scanned copy of the review, and thanks to Andreas Wallstrom for the actual review... way to go! I've would have put scanned copies of both reviews into the reviews section, but the scanner's bust. The Tekno one's there though! Who would have thought it??
Back in Time 2 continues apace, although I can't say much about it for fear of tracks dropping out, etc, etc, as they do. One interesting licensing issue came up with made a number of previously unavailable covers suddenly available... and all for just a phone call :) We now have so many tracks planned or in progress for this volume... oh, the secrecy! Suffice to say, I have heard a new piece from Rob Hubbard...
The MPEG CD should find another mirror soon: it has been upgraded to version 1.1, which basically means I removed all of my old original stuff from the 80s (which was there as filler, really), and put some of the great new XMs I've been mentioning, including the excellent stuff from Boz, who also wrote the very first review of BIT ever... cheered up my day, it did. Listen to his Chimera: it's pretty damn good... although his Savage cover got lost somewhere on my hard disk :( He also did a version of Thrust which will form the basis for the BIT 2 version...
Isn't Gamebase 64 fantastic? Kudos to James Burrows for improving yet again the state of C64 emulation gaming...
Did you hear Sled yet? Way back in the mid-80s, Denton Designs designed and programmed a game called "Sled". It had music by Fred Gray... unfortunately, the publishers didn't want the game!! "Argh" said Fred when they refused to let him reuse the music code in another game... anyway, thanks to the tireless efforts of good ole Waz Pilkington, the source code was rescued from Fred's original disks (which also contained the source for a lot of his other stuff!) and turned into a Sidplay file! This is one piece we're definitely putting on BIT 2... major unreleased work from C64 composer... hehe!
The vast majority of the emails I get are from people who are ordering, or are sending their thanks for the music (whether MIDI or whatever)... occasionally a discordant note of criticism emerges... the main one is: "Why don't you put which currency the amount I'm paying will be for on the Netbanx page?". I'm going to address this, when I can get Netbanx to upload a modified page (can't do anything about the rounding errors though!), although there are enough clues on the homepage (including our address, which is fairly prominent to allow people to order with a reasonable degree of certainty. However, it shall be done, O Great Masters!
Oh, and to people who think the cover could have been better:
1) I like it. It's got nice colours!
2) It could have been better: it could also have been a lot more expensive!
3) I've got big plans for the next cover: I plan to ask Oliver Frey if he can do
something. But I haven't approached him yet, and don't know how much he'll charge. Would
be cool though, wouldn't it?
I've been spending some time thinking over how the various careers of the C64 musicians have gone since the 80s, and comparing them with the pop stars from the 80s: there's some remarkable similarities. You've got your "gone into production and management" bods (i.e. Hubbard, Whittaker, Galway, Deenen, Nik Kershaw), you've got your "doing something musically completely different and esoteric" bods (i.e. Daglish, Howard Jones), you've got your "doing very much the same sort of thing quietly" group (e.g. Tel, Paul Hardcastle), and you've got your "left the industry" (think of any 80s pop star who's now a used car salesman)... You've also got your one-hit wonders...
Have you heard of "Sidstation"? It's a SID in a MIDI box: very exciting technology! They put on their page that they'd really like to hear the Sidstation appear on a CD - and then they wouldn't sell me one! I think I may have been removed from their mailing list as well. Why this state of affairs? Your guess is as good as mine. If they objected to the wavetable technology on "Back in Time", then you'd think they'd jump at the chance to improve the situation for the sequel?
I've got other plans anyway, which includes creating a bank of C64 sounds on a Korg Z1 by analysing the waveforms and pitch envelopes of the SIDs themselves. This is made even more possible by that genius Michael Schwendt producing another special Sid2MIDI... :)
One other thing I've noticed: the CD and the MPEGs are best listened to through headphones, in a darkened room, on your own. There's some sort of communion goes on when you've got those stereo FX round your head. It's just you, and Rob/Martin/Chris/Fred... it's magical. Somehow, at least with me, the C64 experience is different, and more critical and analytical when you're with friends. Alone, you just let the music sink into your being, like no other. Hmm. Maybe I'm just weird.
7 August 1998 (now over 800 copies sold!)
It's here!! Edge have done a half-page review of the CD, including cover shot and track listing... when I see it properly I'll put it up on the page, but they read it over the phone, and they singled out Fred's Mutants (Wazmix), Wizball, Parallax and the "seminal" Sanxion. It's a great review as they read it, so I'm really happy!
17 July 1998 (now over 700 copies sold)
Well, here I am again! The big review I mentioned below is next month. Talked the the production people at "Edge" magazine (Future Publishing), and they said the Editor (who was a big C64 fan) hasn't written the review yet. And they didn't have to tell me that since I don't have any advertising in this issue to come, so I believe them... :)
Just found out that the CD is being featured in Commodore Scene, Issue 21, thanks to R.P.Bowen, the Editor of this worthy magazine. Hurrah!
I've been keeping an eye on the C64 cover scene, and people have been sending me stuff, and I have to say the quality of covers is getting better all the time. I've received decent versions of Star Paws and Thrust from Alastair Bowness (Boz), as well as an XG version of Stormlord that I hope to receive a copy of soon. My favourite cover I've heard post-Back in Time is Terra Cresta by Jogeir Liljedahl. Awesome.
One thing I've noticed is that it's the current vogue to take C64 tunes and put dance beats on them. I can't really complain, as there are plenty of people who like this stuff, and (depending on the tune) it can sometimes work quite well, but I can't help wishing for more musical invention, such as all the stuff Jogeir added in Galway is God and Terra Cresta, and such as Matt Furniss' efforts in Comets and Rambo 98. It's the added stuff that makes the difference between "good" and "great". Still, it's wonderful that people still put so much time into keeping the music alive and thriving...
Another thing I've noticed is that people tend to stay away from the slower tunes. Looks like it's up to me... Just to get the ball rolling, I'm being sent a version of "Driller", and I've finished a version of Thanatos that takes advantage of the hidden synth facilities of the DB50XG. I've also done a moving MIDI/MPEG of Benn Daglish's Revenge of the Mutant Camels 2. Oh, while I remember, look for a Megaman MIDI in www.c64audio.com/mids
Anyone got a half-decent MPEG of Rob's Thalamusic? We could clean it up here and release it on the Net.
To support the C64 web scene, I've decided to send a free copy of the Deluxe "Back in Time" to webmasters of C64 sites that tell me about their site. Of course, it'd be nice if they'd review it with their own comments when they receive it, but that's not a condition. Having an interesting web site is! Also, I'll put these sites in my links page. A self-selecting links page, nice!
I'm also going to implement a feature for people to contribute their own commentary to the games pages. These pieces and games mean a lot to people, and it would be nice for each game page to host the reminiscences of fans. Why should me and Waz have all the fun?
16 July 1998
Well, it's a new look for the front page and the CDR is finally online. The web page will changed in more depth later, but I had to make it more informative, because (fingers crossed) I'm expecting a big review any day now...
CD has sold 700 copies now... wow... And there will be some magazine reviews in the next months, so I have hopes for the first thousand.
I've been using Waves Ultramaximiser recently: it's excellent. More gossip later. Raspberries to Bonehead.
15 May, 1998
Well, we've sold 400 copies at last... still needs about 200 before I start commissioning works for Volume 2 tho'. The second volume will be a co-operative work using some of the C64 fans/composers who now have technology... Jogeir Liljedahl will play a part in the Galway stuff. Doncha just love his 'Galway is God' XM? Especially that Vangelis-y bit...
The online ordering has been going well, although the screen needs a slight redesign to clarify the relationship between standard and deluxe. As some people have noticed, the page needs a bit of a redesign anyway, to make the bits smaller and make sure they fit onto a 800x600 screen.
We're at the World of Amiga show at the weekend, and Epic Marketing are playing the CD on their sound system, as well as other C64 audio tracks I'm taking. They're also selling the CD at a special "show" price. It's at the Hammersmith Novotel in London. I'm looking forward to it!
Continuing sorry to those waiting the MPEGs to come online, we're waiting for C64.org to get a new hard disk. It's a lot of MPEGs to put up, although those with the deluxe CD don't have to worry about it...
Video producer mentioned below has gone rather quiet, so maybe that's not going to happen. Still a good idea though!
One of the most difficult things in this world is getting editorial about the CD... just as the software houses didn't believe in it, so most magazines may take some persuading (say, a fan rings them up and says 'have you heard about this awesome new CD...?' :) This is what we need, although review copies are on their way to many magazines, along with a short 1,500 word article about Rob, Martin and C64 music. Of course, I could write a lot more, about a lot more people, but this is real "beginner's guide" stuff to get them interested. Shark gave me the idea to market it to Byte as a "chip" album, starring Sid 6581 (after all, there are real samples there...), as well as the other chips involved. Neat idea, I thought.
Track listing for volume 2 is still extremely nebulous, but if you want to see Jeroen Tel's stuff done by Jeroen, email him and mention that he should submit tracks for volume 2. I'd be delighted to see Jeroen versions of his tracks on the CD.. it would fit in with the increased composer activity on this CD. Incidentally, it's going to be a big job, so it might take a year... :( I'll try and find the time to do some short non-CD MIDIs and MPEGs during this time. After all, I haven't done the other Wizardry tunes yet, or Mule, or... etc, etc. Fred Gray is working on his theme from "Batman", which I really liked. Should be interesting to hear what he does to it...
More advertising in PC Format in the June and July issues, and an advert in Edge. The Edge magazine here is really into retro (they even had an R-Type cover a couple of months back). They have a retro section every issue, and have a much more "developer" slant to things. The spirit of Zzap lives on, methinks. Response from PC Format wasn't what I'd hoped, but it's early days.
Keep sending those emails about specific tracks, etc. Feedback isn't really painful, and I'm well aware that there are sometimes compromises or things left undone, especially in the MPEGs. Also, if a particular MPEG track really hit the spot and could do with ordinary CD release in enhanced form, or whatever. I'm personally very impressed with both Jogeir's and Tim Forsythe's stuff (Ace 2 club mix, and Agent X II): both are punchy and impressive. Tim is an ideal candidate for contributing to vol 2 over the Internet, which is how a lot of Volume 2 is going to be created (swapping MIDIs and MPEG). Should be fun.
I always said that this volume was a stepping stone to creating a commercial environment that C64 composers could exploit, and get their work in a new variety of formats to a wider audience. To that extent, things will get even better than they are now, which is pretty darn good. We now have an official C64 themes CD, and the prospect of another. This doesn't sit well with a small proportion of hardcore internet fans who believe that exploiting the old works commercially is in some way a blasphemy. Obviously I'll never convince those people, other than questioning what they have ever done for the people they claim to admire. There are numerous fans who have kept the scene alive, and thus kept the music alive over long years, the HVSC people, the composers like Waz who keep composing, the archivists, those web page authors, contributors to Bluenine (not to mention its archivist, Torben B.!), etc, etc. It's to them the C64 community owes a huge vote of thanks. But some contribute nothing other than cynicism and talk and talk self-importantly and worthlessly about their supposed influence in the "C64 community". C64 community is love of art, and the art brought to us by many different people: about taking joy in these music and games, produced for profit, but now meaningful of so much more. Cynical wannabes need not bother the rest of us, especially if they try to impose their value judgements on the masses by inflating their own apparent authority.
If that sounds a bit bitter, then so be it. But life is good, and C64 music has never been so well supported, HVSC has never been more comprehensive and well organised! There's never been a better time to be a SID fan.
3 April, 1998
Online ordering is now with us! (And about time too, I must say).Go to our secure ordering site.We have also booked an advert in PC Format for the May issue, out on theApril 24th (or thereabouts). There have been rumours about radio play forDelta (on Radio 1, BBC), and for a video of Comets (MTV Europe). I wish I'd seen them...CDR is also now finished, and will be posted during the coming two weeks to all those whoare owed them.
17 March, 1998
Fixed some minor pages (Benn's page, Outrun,etc.). Added contact details for the Free Record Shop and EpicShareware for the CD...
Still no online ordering? Yup: the people I'musing are being a bit slow. But it should be with us any daynow... Sorry for the delay.
Changed CD pricing: people who bought at the oldprice will get (free) a really nice CDR with ALL the MPEGs fromthis page, and lots more, filling some 600Mb. Wow...
If you're reading this, and wondering "whydidn't he email me about the CD", I wanted to wait until youcould buy by credit card online before raising expectations.Sorry... it took longer than expected.
CD has been reviewed in the magazine"Computer and Video Games". Their verdict?"Flinking Awesome". Shark wrote a review while I willlink to when I redesign the cd.htm page in a couple of days.Everybody who buys the CD emails me, unless they don't haveemail... and they all love it. Fair makes you proud it does.
Interesting developments and rumours: Tim Follinto write for volume 2, Martin Galway to write for volume 2, allmajor composers currently in line to sign limited number of CDcovers, video of Crazy Comets being made by Danish producer...
What about the full-length MPEGs? Sorry: I'vejust finished them, and they'll be on their way to upload shortly. Unfortunately, even with the help of Andreas Varga (MrSid), I haven't got the web space to store this stuff in anythingbut 128kbps MPEG3. Perhaps this will encourage people to buy the"deluxe" CD pack, with added patch CDR (loads oforiginal music in MP3 with nice link HTM pages, and ... gasp...70 or so C64 MPEGs and rarities. Wow...)
9 February
Thanks for Gabriele Priarone, that ever vigilantMOD and MIDI man, fixed some broken links. Thanks also toChristian Esken, for pointing out the MPEG broken links!
8 February
Extensive page overhaul. Everything is new, butthe MPEG links don't work yet, since I have yet to get themuploaded. Expect that soon-ish. Although there are some assortedMPEGs in ftp://www.c64audio.com/pub/htmlif you feel the need. Although there will be some better versionsof these uploaded soon.
New directory structure puts unzipped mids intotheir own directory (www.c64audio.com/mids), with a zipped mid inthe same directory containing all the files. Extra patch zipswill be put into the same directory when I do modifications.Zipped MIDs are small enough for this not to impact on downloadtime.
Animated GIFS don't work properly in Netscape:don't know why that is. Odd innit?
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