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MYST, The YM2149 ST Emulator
© 1997-98 by Nicolas Pomarede (Mr.Styckx)
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AUTHOR LIST
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This file describes all the music composers included so far in this collection.
It doesn't claim to be exhaustive about what every composer have made or does
today or about the chronology of compositions ; these are just my personal
descriptions, but if you have any valuable informations, don't hesitate to send
them to me, so I can include them. If you're interested in more informations on
each composer, browse through C64 WEB pages on the net, since many of them were
famous composers on C64 and have some dedicated pages with interviews.
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AntiChrist from Sector One
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The tunes he wrote were all done with the Megatizer by Jedi from Sector One. A
few of them are some conversions from classical C64 musics (OperationJupiter,
SandraLand) and often use SID like enveloppe.
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Barrett Steve
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He composed essentially for The Code Masters, as well on ST as on C64.
The replay is quite small and efficient.
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Beben Wally
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Also known as Hagar on the C64 scene. He wrote some quite nice musics, although
not as numerous as on C64, from famous games like Elite, R-Type or Total
Eclipse. He composed mainly for Exocet but also for Firebird or Vivid Images.
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Big Alec from Delta Force (Gunnar Gaubatz)
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Certainly one of the best composers in the demo scene, and also a very
innovative one (SID env, samples). His first big release was in the 'Musical
Wonders 91' by OffBeat (before they joined Delta Force) and many of these
musics were reused or remixed in the 'Punish Your Machine' demo. Another great
release was his 'Music Disk #1' (was there any sequel ?) which included some
great SID env musics (with a very good adaptatation of Bangkok Knights Loader
by Matt Gray). He also worked on the game 'No Second Prize' by Thalion. His
routine features some really nice drums. In my opinion this is certainly one of
the best composers in the 'post-Hippel' era.
WARNING : due to a bug in the init part of the replay itself, playing a tune
can cause illegal READ at addr $0. This is harmless but may cause CPU
exceptions on 68020+ during the first seconds of the tune.
I've added a small patch after the init to prevent this.
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Brimble Allister
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He originaly wrote musics on Amiga (Alien Breed) and made a few musics for
cheap games on ST.
WARNING : in some of the musics, the original replay does "adda.l d1,a1"
without clearing the upper 16 bits of D1. This is fixed by using "adda.w d1,a1"
instead.
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Brooke Jason C.
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He wrote music mainly in the early age of the ST. His routine is quite similar
to David Whittaker's one, which certainly explains why the musics often sound
like Whittaker's ones. Some of his best tunes are FlyingShark, IkariWarriors,
Vixen and Overlander (really nice one).
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Chris Mad from Phalanx
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His first tunes were in two really famous demos, 'The Whattaheck Demo' and 'The
Sowatt Demo', for the Ghost Screens (great memories). He also wrote most of the
musics for the 'OverDrive Demo' by Phalanx (which I think were quite noisy for
most of them).
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Conran Sean
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Nothing particuliar to say. The tunes he made were mainly for 'Hanna Barbera'
cartoons adaptations.
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Cooksey Mark
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Yet another famous C64 composer. He wrote only a few tunes on the ST for some
famous arcade game conversions by Elite (Commando, Ghosts'n'Goblins).
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Count Zero from Electronic Image (Nic Alderton)
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He composed all the musics for the 'Decade Demo' by The Inner Circle back in
1989 (great demo, which in some way represented an alternative to The Union).
He also made some very good conversions of Tim Wright's musics for Psygnosis
games 'The Killing Game Show' and 'Awesome'. His melodies are quite original
and certainly created a good alternative to the Jochen Hippel style which was
used in nearly all demos at this time. He made heavy use of enveloppes, which
sometimes gave some quite shrill sounds. Still very nice to listen to, I think.
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Daglish Ben
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Certainly one of the most productive game music designer (with David Whittaker).
He made many songs on both ST and C64, and what is quite nice is that his ST
songs weren't simple C64 conversions. Some of them are really great and should
sound familiar to you : Blasteroids, NorthStar, Rick Dangerous, SwitchBlade.
WARNING : due to a bug in the init part of the replay itself, playing a tune
can cause illegal READ at addr $10 and $20. This is harmless but may cause CPU
exceptions on 68020+ during the first seconds of the tune.
I've added a small patch after the init to prevent this.
This bug appeared only in the "secong generation" replays (most recent games).
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Dalecki Adrian
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His games tunes are adaptations of the Amiga version he wrote for StarByte.
Sound quite nice, although the games were not very famous on ST.
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Davies Mike
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He worked for US Gold / Tiertex. Not many tunes from him (add to this that
Strider and Strider II are the same ...)
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DocLands from The Overlanders
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This french guy is the twin of Adso from The Overlanders. He wrote a few musics
for their demos (also with SID env, like in the Hidden Screen of the
Transbeauce II demo).
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Dunn Jonathan
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Well, here's again one of the legends of the C64. Remember masterpieces like
Ocean Loader or Platoon ? He composed musics mainly for games by Ocean which
all have a typical rhythm (Rambo III, Operation ThunderBolt, ...).
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Excellence In Art
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I don't know many about him. He composed musics with Megatizer.
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Flogel Janko Mrsic
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One of the very first ST musicians, back in 1986. He wrote musics for games
by Paradox, such as Metropolis, WarZone, FireBlaster and BombJack.
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Follin Tim
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Wow! really great, great songs (unfortunately not enough on the ST). His songs
are really clear with some very nice sounds (LedStorm (brilliant), Bionic
Commando, Gauntlet III). Words fails to express his very good work. IMO, it's
definitly one of the best around.
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Frazer from Syndicate
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Yet another one to use the Megatizer by Sector One. The tunes he wrote were
quite nice, especially the ones for the 'If Pigs Could Fly' demo. Quite a shame
he didn't wrote more musics, I think.
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Fur