The 8-Bit Guy made, as you probably already know, a new game - Attack of the Petscii Robots. It's available for the Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, Apple IIgs and Atari/Commander X16.

Noelle did all the official music for this game, as I had little time to devote to this project except for the design and label stuff as usual. However,  in January this year, I sat down and made some songs that I thought could fit the game. Using only hardware and no soft synths or samples, I did a series of tunes inspired by the titles of the maps in the game.

Initially I planned these to be loopable and short as most in game music tends to be, but I quickly found myself making more or less full songs with a more normal structure. So this alternate soundtrack is more of a synth inspired album that some of you may find ok to play in the background while playing the game.

Attack of the Petscii Robots - The Alternate Soundtrack

Attack of the Petscii Robots - Level 3: The Village

Attack of the Petscii Robots - Level 6: pi University

Attack of the Petscii Robots - Level 7: More Islands

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/2vBJYOqcZz0

A good year or so, after I did the "Links, the Challenge of Golf remix" and said I would tackle this next... it kinda got stuck because so many things happened back then. In addition, the pandemic prevented me from having Børge-Are over to record some real sax lines too. However, today we managed to record some good stuff and more, and this is the result.

Many of you will remember Tex Murphy and his quest to solve the apparently not so regular death of Carl Linsky. The game from Access Software used RealSound™ which were samples that were played through the PC speaker and was pretty awesome for us back then - albeit being very crappy 8-bit and low resolution. Nonetheless, the music used (which I'm sure one of you will tell us in the comments where it originated from) was captivating and very late 80s. So after many years of wanting to remake it, I got around to do it, 32 years later!

Børge-Are graciously came over and recorded some great sax and let me film him playing too. Hopefully this made the song and video even better.

As always, thanks to all the Patreons and you fans out there. Enjoy the remix and check out the original game on Steam - it's quite fun

Mean Streets Remix

Born as Jolle by faRk and adopted by Hansee. Now a promising free jelly named Jelly. Did we raise it right?


Check out faRk's universe: https://linktr.ee/faRksprett / https://soundcloud.com/fark

Jelly

Hansee & Fark - Jelly

Soundtrack of this PC-Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUP0G502T2c

Digitalgarden

The wind brings whispers from unseen places, and fire breathes life into the confines of shadow. Time stretches, forgotten yet persistent, folding dreams into spaces that hold more than the eye can comprehend. Silence trembles and then breaks free, revealing horizons dotted with the radiance of stars that patiently watch. Beneath it all, currents move with subtle force, carving paths through fleeting and eternal moments.

Echoed Starlight

2 ANEGDOTKA- ANECDOTE

morty

Track 5 from the Rigid Force Alpha: Extended Soundtrack album.

Rigid Force Alpha: Extended Soundtrack - Vermis Research Institute

A short experimentation after taking a few courses on writing for an orchestra. I just might be starting to understand a little how to write for different sections :)

EDIT: Re-uploaded a new version as the previous one had a track muted, and I fixed some problems with harmony. Silly me.

Athos

Electronic musician from Norway. I started playing piano/keyboards in the mid 80s. After a few years at the municipal music school, I quickly grew tired of the simple piano-only education and got to move on to classes with keyboards and synths. From the early beginning with Technics K-200 rhythm keyboard from 1983 via some Casios/Hohner keyboards, I evolved with the later Technics KN-1000 and KN-2000 before moving on to Roland XP-50. As the computer revolution made DAWs affordable, 1999 made sequencing using Cubase easy and the studio grew ever larger with more outboard gear. Today the studio has become a sizeable and functional MIDI/arranging studio with over 40 synths/modules and more centered around a MacPro with MOTU’s Digital Performer, and numerous more or less famous productions.

I have always had a musical approach towards sound engineering and composing, rooted mainly in vivid harmonic structures and saturated compositions. Inspiration has always been the likes of Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Eric Serra to name a few giants in the electronic scene, but also a heart towards well produced pop music from the 70s and 80s as well as epic film scores from John Williams, Alan Silvestri and Hans Zimmer. The baby era of computer music from the late 80s and early 90s was also a heavy influence.

Attack of the Petscii Robots - Level 7: More Islands

Anders Enger Jensen