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Xenon (ZX128 conversion) [2023] |
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Submitted by ChristopherJam on 17 July 2023
| Yes, classic Whittaker there - nicely reconstructed! |
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Submitted by Bansai on 14 July 2023
TL;DR is: automatic conversion, details follow.
For a couple of months, I somehow found myself drawn into doing a deep dive on Whittaker players disassembling every C64 song he ever wrote, working backward in time through his game music and extracting song data that will play in a single superset player, albeit with occasional remappings of pattern commands. I'm up to 95 songs, many with game sfx, because that's how his players worked. Given how prolific he was cross-platform and what I noticed regarding the evolution of his players from Max Headroom forward with the Jason Brooke rewrite being the longest lived player, I guessed he had some kind of common assembler-based mostly compatible macro command structure across platforms where he could easily port song data, so I did a memory dump out of a hacked version of aylet on Linux to see what the Z80/AY song data looked like. Subsong and track pointers are the same exact format as C64. Looking at the patterns, song pattern data is very close to C64 with some minor differences. Pattern commands were parsed and converted automatically. "Signature Whittaker sound" details like arpeggio tables, glides, and vibrato passed right through to the C64. His ZX adaption of Jonathan Dunn's Platoon sounds decent back on C64 and I question whether he wrote it on C64. If anyone runs some kind of player signature analysis on the .sid file, it should show up as Whittaker because the player is modified Whittaker. NES is the same story, but with four voices and also with additional tables to emulate ADSR. |
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Submitted by iAN CooG on 13 July 2023
It's actually good, if nobody would have told me, I would say it's an original sid tune by Whittaker.
Is this tune actually composed from scratch recreating the original song from another platform or it's just a automatic conversion of some sort? |
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Submitted by hedning on 13 July 2023
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Submitted by blitzed on 13 July 2023
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