Metal Mayham (Amiga 500)
By cTrix on March 20, 2022 3:14 am
For over 20 years I've been meaning to finish off a project I started when I was 15... which was an Amiga musicdisk - single floppy - which a bunch of metal songs on it. The idea was I recorded the drums and guitars separately and then did lots of clever sample splicing to try and make something that sounds semi-authentic. The 8 bit sampling kinda doesn't matter when you are brickwall on both the drums and guitars!!
This track actually takes it's samples from another song and completely reworks into a new tune 2 semitones down... effectively a bonus track!! The whole thing - samples included - takes around 300kb of memory, but with PowerPacker and a custom IMA ADPCM sample compressor (for guitar parts only) it gets it down to around 200kb... or about 1/3 of available floppy space. No modern compression format can match this given the output quality. Given I need to also include the replayer code, graphics, sample decompression code and boot block on the floppy too. Did I mention it has to work on an 8mhz machine with < 1MB of RAM available?!
So this is a recording of one of the tracks that'll hopefully be on that floppy release one day. I'm actually mega busy at the moment at work (12 hour days including weekends) and so will probably skip next week too. But I somehow fit this session into the insanity that is life at the moment.
Now... back to work.... I done did a Weekly Beat. Yay.
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