Paul Allen Panks wrote:
Aside from loving the Bubble Bobble in-game music, and of course Galaga, most of my fave music is from Amiga games. The Zeewolf theme was a classic, and Project-X had good music too. I seem to remember liking the Disposable Hero music, though can't remember it right now. And of course the Pot Black-style piano janglings on Team 17's Arcade ["Pool"|"Snooker"]. Other than that, my favourite 'in-game' musics were as follows:Hello, What is your favorite musical score in classic video games? For me, Gyruss is the top of the mountain. That musical score is hypnotically heteroclitic, aberrantly anomalous and capriciously conspicuous. In other words, values, symbols, and terminations, that is one hell of a sound track.
On the Dragon 32, load a text adventure with "CLOAD:MOTORON:RUN" then stick a tape in whilst playing. So Black Sanctum would be played to, of course, Black Sabbath, El Diablero would be Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias, Franklin's Tomb[1] would be Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and so forth.
Bored of the in-game music on your favourite Amiga game[2]? Well, if it runs in Workbench (i.e. is OS-friendly), then chances are a quick scoot through with a hex editor will sooner or later throw up a mod file embedded into the code (if you're very lucky, it'll be in its own file). You know what to do from here...
[1]Franklin's Tomb loaded with a brief - and probably in the octave equivalent to PLAY "O2" on the Speccy - rendition of Pink Panther. Salamander did this a lot, one of their Star Trek style games had a brief snatch of the Thunderbirds theme. [2]One of my all-time favourite games is Zool, which had some fantastic beats. The only problem was you chose which track to play at the beginning of the game and you couldn't change it until you had to start again.
-- Frodo Morris http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1342 All your bast are belong to us AKA Graham Lee, Wadham College SpectrumSofts currently on show at URL/speccy/: Speccy@Home SETI Client Also the home of iloveyou.bas, the first PC virus ported to the ZX82!!!