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Which did you own - Atari ST or Amiga?[I meant to make this a poll, but I clicked the wrong button (my own fault, I'm supposed to be writing a report for work, and it's so boring, so I ma…
... with Deluxe Paint, basic animations, music sampling (Octamed etc) and stuff ... /> Have used WinUAE quite a bit to emulate but haven't ... how bad some ports of 8 bit games were on the ST ... -
Playing SID Files... :oS SID File player... Anyone else noticed this in the CPC world?... [url]http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Sid[/url] On that webpage is a CPC program…
... , but development has slowed a bit on that project by looks ... find a way to grab music from SID files, in a ... on other formats, ideally, other 8-bit formats... For me, the generation ... musical format for creating new music that can take advantage of ... -
Which did you own - Atari ST or Amiga?[I meant to make this a poll, but I clicked the wrong button (my own fault, I'm supposed to be writing a report for work, and it's so boring, so I ma…
had st for music making, has 4mb and still ... some point. I found the 8 bit era far more inventive. -
Digitised speech using the AY chip?I remember reading somewhere that the AY chip could produce better quality digitised speech than the 48k sampling methods, is there any truth to this…
... true. You can do 4-bit samples straightforwardly as already mentioned ... .
Song using 4-bit sampled instruments on AY:
[youtube ... com/psgenc/royksopp.mp3"]7-bit output on an msx with ... like an intro screen and music like this for commercial games ... -
Whats your all time favourite 8 bit soundtrack?For me,has to be Monty on the Run c64 by Rob Hubbard. Complete use of the sid to its potential,well composed and Hubbard through and through.
... Glider Rider music stands out as the very best 8-bit soundtrack for ... [/youtube]
The Starglider music deserves a mention. Again, a ... lot better than the 16-bit versions. I don't remember ... -
Whats your all time favourite 8 bit soundtrack?For me,has to be Monty on the Run c64 by Rob Hubbard. Complete use of the sid to its potential,well composed and Hubbard through and through.
... like that ballblazer on atari 8 bit has that sort of vibe ... music on that, title AND in-game. Some of my favourite 8-bit ... had nice weird sound and music in it, and Master of ... /> Surprised nobody has mentioned the music/sound on Amaurote 128k... if ... -
First attempts to obtain 10 channels (TS+GS)Just a curiosity but maybe several people could be interested. For some time now we make some attempts with Lord Vader, to force full synchronisatio…
... ) and GeneralSound (4 channel digi music in 8-bit quality).
General ... with int rate of 48.8 Hz (Pentagon, Eva and so ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... constraints which all the 8-bits approximately lie within ... up that produce better music in the right hands, ... Both satisfying and terrible music can come out of ... too. All the popular 8-bits are worthy but ... device available for any 8-bit and also the most ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... don't think any other 8-bit micro did anything quite as ... sequences and listening to the music, like 8-bit works of art. -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... don't think any other 8-bit micro did anything quite as ... sequences and listening to the music, like 8-bit works of art.[/QUOTE ... the best SID in-game music on the C64, and has ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... . Have no preference on any 8-bit format. It's a fair ... game play is. But the music on the speccy is dreadful ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... , Salamander, Summer Games.
Music... SID>Pokey>Beeper ... />
PS I know Atari 8 bit should not really be mentioned ... -
2014 Games ListNote: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found somewhere near the end of this thread. [old] Any problems …
... one of the most productive 8 bit machine now, many years after ... [B]Tritone Demo[/B] [I](music demo) [/I][[URL="http://www ... Chromospheric Flares[/B] [I](Beeper music demo) [/I][[URL="http://www ... Jan Deak Tribute Music Collection[/B] [I](Scene Music Demo)[/I][[ ... -
What is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega and what does it mean?Just stumbled upon this Indiegogo page following a tweet from SpeccyNews [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega[/url] it…
... Spectrum games (and other 8 and 16 bit emulators), and (to me ... it together properly with the music from Where Eagles Dare, clips ... ] a developable / for learning programming - 8 bit platform for the 21st century ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... and played that quite a bit, not sure if it' ... versions mind. It's a bit of a different tack, ... soothing (out of place) music and was very fast. IO ... 64 was very impressive, bit glitchy with frequent slowdown but ... de la cr?me of 8-bit home computer shoot em ups ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
[QUOTE=BuzzySounds;816342]IO music was atmospheric - although ... weren't happy with the music when it turned up... ... The originality suffered a bit though and there's ... phoned it in a bit with stuff like [b ... title tune (the Atari 8-bit version is more "gritty" ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... ;816376]Having never heard the music on IO, I thought i ... out it's the same music as the title screen for ... ] on the C64 and Atari 8-bit. -
2 versions of Street Fighter II?I played yesterday SF2 in my Spectrum, suffering the horrible multiload, and managed to reach Vega?s Stage. Afterwards, I looked in YouTube and I fou…
Just got inspired to investigate the 8-bit versions of this...the Sega Master System conversion looks surprisingly good. The graphics look a lot better than the music sounds, if that makes sense.
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Stuff the Spectrum wasn't really supposed to be able to doHello :) Today I was rearranging my bookshelves and I ended up spending almost an hour, looking at the old Sinclair User magazines I have held on to…
... collision detection, quick scrolling, music and sound effects, plus cursor ... comparison some of the other 8-bit conversions (especially for the ... having to choose between either music or sound-effects (so that ... if you chose music, you got no warning when ... -
Retro Asylum 118 - NES TASTIC!<img src="http://retroasylum.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/118_nestastic_punchout.png" /> The Drisk and special guest Alex Mort of Retro Game Squ…
Interesting, not my fave 8-bit by a long long shot, ... at all times, but the music at work is torture, if ... -
Which games would you remake? Or like to see a mockup of?We all have a list of titles that we know or felt was not good enough or simply rushed to market without thought or effort. So which titles would you…
... ! managed to balls-up every 8 bit conversion.
Side Arms ... bad. Awful sounds and no music. The ending is terrible. Such ... -
UK Copyright change.Source http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a659052/its-illegal-to-rip-your-cds-again-just-nine-months-after-law-allowing-it-was-introduced.html#~p…
... s plenty of genuinely free music, books and films on the ... of course, though perhaps using music and films as an example ... .
Thankfully good quality 8 bit games made by small groups ... because people who write for 8 bit games are naturally great! They ... -
Best Friends Forever?Did you ever have a best friend as a kid? Do you still have that best friend. Did they let you down once, or did you fall out for good. I ask this…
... We were really close until 8, where we ended up ... still lives as a bit of a kid and has ... However I now practice a bit of Mindfulness to stop myself ...
I just remember the 8 bit era and what great fun ... and how the cheesy music was brilliant with videos ... -
Best Friends Forever?Did you ever have a best friend as a kid? Do you still have that best friend. Did they let you down once, or did you fall out for good. I ask this…
... speccy owner.
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Chap further ... and I remember bonding over 8-bit computing (he had a CPC ... him and he said 'what music do you like?'. I mentioned ... that time and, being a bit older, was a good source ... -
Arcade Game DesignerTime I posted an update on this, I've been working on the next version - along with another developer who is writing the editors - since July. Wor…
... .net/2012/09/18/turning-8-bit-sprites-into-printable-3d-models ... an intuitive editor to compose music the last speccy could be ... -
2015 Games ListHi, this is the thread I use for the 2015 Games List. Note: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found somewh…
... is certainly the most active 8-bit scene!
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* [b]1-bit music site[/b]
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Most technically impressive Speccy game?I think I posted this question years ago, but, wondered if it'd still be the same games that people think are technically impressive? I think some o…
... 's plip-plop engine for music
Anything by Tim Follin ... - again, music like that shouldn't have ... was the strength of the 8-bit era, developers pushed the hardware ... -
Can you tell me some 128k visibly enhanced game versionsThis should be discussed before, but on search I get to many hits ... I´m more a 48k Spectrum-Man and never owned a 128k at my youth. A frien…
... apart from enhanced music and maybe an extra bit of graphics here ... it was wasted investment. The 8 bit computer had already passed it ... -
Can you tell me some 128k visibly enhanced game versionsThis should be discussed before, but on search I get to many hits ... I´m more a 48k Spectrum-Man and never owned a 128k at my youth. A frien…
... apart from enhanced music and maybe an extra bit of graphics here ... it was wasted investment. The 8 bit computer had already passed it ... -
Most technically impressive Speccy game?I think I posted this question years ago, but, wondered if it'd still be the same games that people think are technically impressive? I think some o…
... ;861048"]The opening sequence and music to Trantor were both very ... the greatest intro sequences (on 8-bit) ever. It promised so much ...
