Welcome! Thanks for flying
"C64Audio". If you fasten your SIDbelts, you will see to the left
Rob Hubbard's house, and on the right Martin Galway's House...
This CD-ROM contains a huge amount of MPEGs arranged by composer (in the guide
pages), and by arranger (in the CD file structure). We didn't have room for
Smurfs this time... :). Most of these MPEGs have been scattered around on the
Net before (a special mention here to Linus
Wallej/Triad, who makes a great job of keeping up to date with MPEGs that
aren't by me!). Huge thanks also to Jason Mackenzie, and Waz Pilkington, and
all of the arrangers on the CD. Check out the Binary
Zone page on this CD-ROM, for all your C64 PD needs... and if you like the
work of a particular arranger: tell them! The encouragement will make for a
fatter BIT 3 CD-ROM... ;)
Composers featured on
this CD:
Rob
Hubbard
Includes: Shockwave 3DO
and Holmes music done by Rob himself, brand new Lightforce covers from me and
Marcel Donne, Chimera (one title tune, one high score), the first ever Confuzion
cover, Cher meets Mega-Apocalypse(!), and more!
Martin Galway
Includes: three Ocean Loader
v2s, as well as Marcel Donne's Terra Cresta and Yie-Ar Kung Fu 2, Arkanoid 2000
(an example of what is planned for an update of the first "Back in Time"),
and more!
Benn Daglish
Photos of me 'n Benn in 1998, some Last Ninja covers, and my version of RMC
2!!
The game so good, they sold
it..er.. three or four times!!
Fred Gray
A beautiful Frankie Goes to Hollywood cover of "The World is my Oyster",
starring Jogeir Liljedahl and his guitarist! Plus: Enigma Force!
Chris
Huelsbeck
Instant Remedy's Giana,
plus Waz's piano high Jinks... :)
Various
Here's some good stuff!
(includes Follin and Tel, because there weren't so many covers for them this
time)...
What happens if you listen to too many SIDs
There are some _weird_ people out there. Meet a selection. Do the words "Xmas Chortles" mean anything to you? They soon will!
Technical Stuff:
Some of the MPEGs have been encoded at 256kbps: the process with these MPEGs was to decompress the MPEG (unless it started as a WAV), put the tune through a TC Finalizer, and then reencode. So you ought to find these pieces just slightly more satisfying: thus whether something is "premium" or not is dependent upon when it hit this CD-ROM: the later files added were left at 128kbps to save space. The Rob Hubbard files from Watson are actually in Mono, since that's the way they were in the game, and so have been encoded at the maximum bitrate for Mono, which is actually 64kbps.
Heroic contributors to this CD (thanks to all of them, and keep up the good work guys)...
... and also...
Jochen Hippel (by proxy!)
Jon Wells
Matthias Anderson
O2 (is this the oxygen of publicity? ;)
Peter Morck
Rob Hubbard
Stefan 'Doxx' Berglind
The Dead Guys (link not working at time of CD-ROM pressing)
CD compilation and guide pages copyright 1999 High Technology Publishing. All tune copyrights remain with the original composers and arrangers. This CD-ROM has also been made available on the Internet in the same way as Back in Time 1 Deluxe CD-ROM, since it's essentially a way of bringing together without a 500-oddMb download the best of C64 MPEGs up to the current date (end-November 1999). Feel free to copy or distribute any of the MPEGs on this CD-ROM (or indeed this entire CD-ROM) for non-profit purposes should you wish, but don't modify it/them. The version of Winamp provided is freeware, you little wonder, you! Any questions, email Chris Abbott at chris@c64audio.com. Greetz to everyone who is waiting for this to appear having bought Back in Time 2: you're stars of the C64 world, you know... :)
