more 8bit style music

This music was part of the soundtrack for an unreleased game named Sokoban Perfect, made in 1991 for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX computers.

This was composed for the Space stage, and a sort of homage to one of my favorite games - Galaxian.

The unreleased game can be downloaded at www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0018361

Composed with my Compact Editor (www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0018925) .

Sokoban Perfect - We Are The Galaxians (AY-3-8912, 1991, unreleased)

I completely forgot I did this track! It sounds only when the game is loaded into a ZX Spectrum 48k. Recorded directly from a real ZX Spectrum +.

Mystical (ZX Spectrum 48k (beeper), ~1990)

Soundtrack for an unreleased Game Boy Color game, composed in the year 2000. It was one of my latests soundtracks for Game Boy Color. Unfortunately the game was never published, though it was one of the most amazing racing games ever made for the console!

Radikal Bikers - complete soundtrack (GBC, ~2000, unreleased)

Short tune composed and dedicated to friends Hannah and Robin, NES style.

First chiptune in many years! Using the sound set I created for Music On - Retro Keyboard, with sounds of my NES soundtracks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2rb3YwU5dM

Hannah & Robin (NES style)

This is one of the earlier test tracks where I toyed with sample playback on the ZX Spectrum (before coding the Compact Editor). For the drums I used very small fragments of beeper sounds, while the voice samples were played using the AY chip.

It's a pretty boring and repetitive track, but it's also nice because it has samples in it ^^

The Get Ready sample was later used in the Light Corridor game soundtrack.

I did other tracks with small drum samples but only one of them was ever publised in a game; the pause music from Magic Johnson's Basketball.

It has been recorded from the ZXSPin emulator, which is the only I've found capable of reproducing the beeper sounds from this sound driver. I swear it sounded better on the real machine back in the time!

Get Ready (ZX Spectrum 128 + beeper, 1989)

In the late nineties I did several soundtracks for the games of Velez & Dubail, published by Infogrames. At first I would also do the sountrack for Wacky Races, but they needed a really fast sound driver, as the game would be some of the most advanced ever for the console (just check it, it's amazing). Unfortunately my driver was too slow for what they needed, and writing a new and faster one was far out of schedule and budget.

The tracks you hear are the first test, just to check if the game could deal with the sound driver CPU consumption. The tunes only use 2 channels (+ noise), as one entire channel had to be reserved for the sound of the car engine. They use many stereo effects, so be sure to put your headphones on.

In the end the job went to Manfred Linzner who did a wonderful work.

Wacky Races - test tracks (GBC, 1999, unreleased)

Soundtrack for Ronaldo V-Football and UEFA 2000 soccer games for the Game Boy.

UEFA 2000 shares some sound flavour to my soundtrack for V-Rally. For Ronaldo I tried to compose something more festive, with some inspiration from my favourite game musician :-)

Ronaldo V-Football + UEFA 2000 (Game Boy, 1999~2000)

My first commercial tune for the Game Boy, released in the US as Cool Ball.

The game was only 32k in size (just like Bomb Jack) but very entertaining. It only had this tune and a small jingle for the game over. I was doing the mandatory military service and composed this tune in a weekend off.

I remember how amazed I was about the new possibilities of the Game Boy sound (specially the noise channel and the pseudo stereo), compared to the 8 bit computers I used until then!

Pop Up / Cool Ball (Game Boy, 1991)

Menu music for the game QBee for the ZX Spectrum Next.

QBee is a modern take on the classic QBert game by Daniel López, an old fellow from Bit Managers and Abylight, with graphics by the legendary graphic artist Simon Butler. It has been released recently for the ZX Next Computer.

Although the computer supports 3 simultaneous AY chips, I composed the soundtrack using only one of them, leaving another for the sound effects.

Check it out!
https://www.spectrumnextgames.uk/qbee

QBee - Menu (AY-3-8910 ZX Spectrum Next, 2020)

In game music for QBee.

QBee is a modern take on the classic QBert game by Daniel López, an old fellow from Bit Managers and Abylight, with graphics by the legendary graphic artist Simon Butler. It has been released recently for the ZX Next Computer.

Although the computer supports 3 simultaneous AY chips, I composed the soundtrack using only one of them, leaving another for the sound effects.

Check it out!
www.spectrumnextgames.uk/qbee

QBee - Ingame (AY-3-8910 ZX Spectrum Next, 2020)

Stage start jingle for QBee.

QBee is a modern take on the classic QBert game by Daniel López, an old fellow from Bit Managers and Abylight, with graphics by the legendary graphic artist Simon Butler. It has been released recently for the ZX Next Computer.

Although the computer supports 3 simultaneous AY chips, I composed the soundtrack using only one of them, leaving another for the sound effects.

Check it out!
www.spectrumnextgames.uk/qbee

QBee - Stage Start (AY-3-8910 ZX Spectrum Next, 2020)

Stage Complete jingle for the ZX Spectrum Next game QBee.

QBee is a modern take on the classic QBert game by Daniel López, an old fellow from Bit Managers and Abylight, with graphics by the legendary graphic artist Simon Butler. It has been released recently for the ZX Next Computer.

Although the computer supports 3 simultaneous AY chips, I composed the soundtrack using only one of them, leaving another for the sound effects.

Check it out!
www.spectrumnextgames.uk/qbee

QBee - Stage Complete (AY-3-8910 ZX Spectrum Next, 2020)

High Score Table music for the ZX Spectrum Next game QBee.

QBee is a modern take on the classic QBert game by Daniel López, an old fellow from Bit Managers and Abylight, with graphics by the legendary graphic artist Simon Butler. It has been released recently for the ZX Next Computer.

Although the computer supports 3 simultaneous AY chips, I composed the soundtrack using only one of them, leaving another for the sound effects.

Check it out!
www.spectrumnextgames.uk/qbee

QBee - High Score Table (AY-3-8910 ZX Spectrum Next, 2020)

Game Over jingle the ZX Spectrum Next game QBee.

QBee is a modern take on the classic QBert game by Daniel López, an old fellow from Bit Managers and Abylight, with graphics by the legendary graphic artist Simon Butler. It has been released recently for the ZX Next Computer.

Although the computer supports 3 simultaneous AY chips, I composed the soundtrack using only one of them, leaving another for the sound effects.

Check it out!
www.spectrumnextgames.uk/qbee

QBee - Game Over (AY-3-8910 ZX Spectrum Next, 2020)

Death FX and jingle for the ZX Spectrum Next game QBee.

QBee is a modern take on the classic QBert game by Daniel López, an old fellow from Bit Managers and Abylight, with graphics by the legendary graphic artist Simon Butler. It has been released recently for the ZX Next Computer.

Although the computer supports 3 simultaneous AY chips, I composed the soundtrack using only one of them, leaving another for the sound effects.

Check it out!
www.spectrumnextgames.uk/qbee

QBee - Death FX & Jingle (AY-3-8910 ZX Spectrum Next, 2020)

Very short and simple ending track for the ZX Spectrum Next game QBee.

QBee is a modern take on the classic QBert game by Daniel López, an old fellow from Bit Managers and Abylight, with graphics by the legendary graphic artist Simon Butler. It has been released recently for the ZX Next Computer.

Although the computer supports 3 simultaneous AY chips, I composed the soundtrack using only one of them, leaving another for the sound effects.

Check it out!
www.spectrumnextgames.uk/qbee

QBee - Ending (AY-3-8910 ZX Spectrum Next, 2020)

This account is used for old (and new) ZX Spectrum / MSX / Amstrad CPC tunes only. Please check my main SoundCloud account below!

most of the music is straight from tiktok.  the other music is from a friend

Get Ready (ZX Spectrum 128 + beeper, 1989)

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