Awesome TS 2068 Music!
2 messages · 2008-01-04 → 2008-01-04 · Yahoo Group era · View archive on archive.org
Participants: Adam Trionfo, Fred
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1. Re: Awesome TS 2068 Music!
Adam Trionfo · Thu, 3 Jan 2008 22:59:
Fred wrote:
>>
[There was no TS 2068 demo scene] as far as I know, but I'd love to be proven wrong!
>>
Hmm. That's too bad. I used to love to check out the Atari 8-bit demos from the early to mid-nineties. There was never a scene in the U.S. for that system (or, well, not much of one), but you could always check out (PAL) demos. Sometimes they worked, sometimes they didn't. When they did... it was usually jaw dropping. I'd always thinks, "HOW DID THEY DO THAT?!?" I guess that it the point of the demos.
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some games ported to the Timex from the Spectrum had their sound
switched to using the AY instead of the beeper
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Were there many games ported?
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AY Riders are a group that compose for the chip.
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I checked out their website briefly and downloaded one song. I'll listen to it tomorrow (it's already just about midnight and I'm heading for bed!).
Adam
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2. Re: [ts2068] Re: Awesome TS 2068 Music!
Fred · Sat, 5 Jan 2008 00:36:
On 04/01/2008, at 17:59, Adam Trionfo wrote:
> Fred wrote:
>>> [There was no TS 2068 demo scene] as far as I know, but I'd love
>>> to be proven wrong!
>
> Hmm. That's too bad. I used to love to check out the Atari 8-bit
> demos from the early to mid-nineties. There was never a scene in
> the U.S. for that system (or, well, not much of one), but you could
> always check out (PAL) demos. Sometimes they worked, sometimes they
> didn't. When they did... it was usually jaw dropping. I'd always
> thinks, "HOW DID THEY DO THAT?!?" I guess that it the point of the
> demos.
There are plenty of demos for the Sinclair platform which are the
equivalent of PAL demos for the Timex, but timing is critical for most
of the ones I've seen, and I doubt they would work well on the TS2068,
and they mostly use the 128k ports for AY music so would also be silent.
>>> some games ported to the Timex from the Spectrum had their sound
>>> switched to using the AY instead of the beeper
>
> Were there many games ported?
I was in the UK at the time, so I have no idea. If there were, not
many have been preserved and uploaded to the web.
Fred