Arkanoid
Martin Galway, ©1987 Imagine
- Tune comments:
- COMMENT: This is the very first published tune on the C64 that used samples.
"I'm glad you spotted 'Cobra' on the Spectrum, whose tune I was in
love with and HAD to use somewhere else...! I figured no-one would
complain if I used it a year later on the C64." (MG) (It got used in
Arkanoid.)
"Q: How did you get involved with using sampled sounds?
MG: I figured out how samples were played by hacking into someone
else's code... OK, I admit it... It was a drum synthesizer package
called Digidrums, actually, so you could still say I was the first to
include samples in a piece of music. [...] Never would I claim to have
invented that technique, I just got it published first. In fact, I
couldn't really figure out where they got the sample data, just that
they were wiggling the volume register, so I tried to make up my own
drum sample sounds in realtime - which is the flatulence stuff that
shipped in 'Arkanoid'. [...] After the project was in the shops I
gained access to some real drum samples, and I slid those into my own
custom version of the tune. The one that's in the shops is kind of a
collage of farts & burps, don't you think? [...] Later I was able to
acquire some proper drum samples and by 'Game Over' it got quite
sophisticated." (MG) - Comments for subsong #1
- TITLE: Cobra (Title) [from the Spectrum game]
ARTIST: Martin Galway
COMMENT: "I'm glad you spotted 'Cobra' on the Spectrum, whose tune I was in
love with and HAD to use somewhere else...! I figured no-one would
complain if I used it a year later [for Arkanoid] on the C64." (MG) - Comments for subsong #2
- TITLE: Hiscore [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata) - Comments for subsong #3
- TITLE: Intro [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata) - Comments for subsong #4
- TITLE: Level Start [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata) - Comments for subsong #5
- TITLE: Boss Level Start [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata) - Comments for subsong #6
- TITLE: Game Over [from the arcade game Arkanoid]
ARTIST: Hisayoshi Ogura (OGR/Zuntata)
- HVSC Path:/MUSICIANS/G/Galway_Martin/Arkanoid.sid
- Songs:20
- Default song:1
- Song lengths:2:17(M) 1:17 0:07(G) 0:04(G) 0:06(G) 0:03(G) 0:02(G) 0:05(G) 0:02(G) 0:02(G) 0:01(G) 0:01(G) 0:02(G) 0:01(G) 0:03(G) 0:01(G) 0:02(G) 0:02(G) 0:01(G) 0:06(G)
- File version:RSID
- Addresses:Load: $1f00; Init: $1f00; Play: Interrupt handler
- SID version:6581
- C64 version:PAL