Draconus and Zybex will always be in my heart. Sounds truly amazing.

@zbyseklipka406

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I love all Zeppelin Games :) even Ninja Commando and Mountain Bike

@marcins6071

2 жыл бұрын

why amazing

@ubiased23

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcins6071 atari 8 bit computer lines did not have many great games. So to see atari games with good music it makes me a proud former atari 130xe owner. Moved on to own MSX2 YAMAHA computer.

@branojuraj9063

11 ай бұрын

Ballblazer and Ninja are mine favourites

Nice collection! The A8's 'pokey' chip was truly a little powerhouse! Hard to believe they had something that strong in 1979.

I still get the International Karate music in my head on random occasions.

@30ught6

3 жыл бұрын

One of my personal favorites, so is the music from Ninja

There's something unique about Atari square waves and its subsequent distortions. There is a slight decay on the waveform which looks very cool and sounds very smooth, on oscilloscope and human ears, respectively. This is why I prefer simplistic waveforms on Atari than Commodore 64 complex wave generators.

@ahilito

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, I am trying to get my head around the different aesthetics of some of this game/8-bit music (I know that terminology in itself is fraught) you seem like you have a good understanding and knowledge. What other 'console genres' do you recommend listening to?

@dava_arvarabi

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahilito I recommend the gameboy. gameboy music are usually cool, some of them actually resembles modern EDM. most of gameboy music were made using lsdj, a simple modern free software that most of my buddies used to make bangers. I haven't made anything on the gameboy personally but you should probably try to listen to some to infu work. he's a good guy and has recently neatly documented about how to overclock LSDJ. I wish I could copy and paste his channel link here but youtube always delete URL, so just search 'infu gameboy music'

@dava_arvarabi

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahilito kzread.info/dash/bejne/eniAppizlNvaYqg.html

@ahilito

3 жыл бұрын

@@dava_arvarabi thanks so much!

@musicstudios4418

2 жыл бұрын

Atari apparently brings out a crypto currency or it is already on the market. Did anyone notice anything about it?

Jet Set Willy was by far the best song ever written on this platform :)

In my heart i love 8 bit music

So many memories......miss those days.....

180 was the best game ever! and the atari 65xe had the best version too.

International Karate... what a game, spent hours on that one. Such creativity on such limited hardware

@sggs63

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. it's my early childhood. now i am 30 years old and i still have trembling with this song

I never forget when turn off display and only listening International Karate music :)

damn it took me home

This Arpeggio of Whistlers brother is so awesome...

Ah Boulder Dash, Draconus, Feud, Karate Championship, Jet Set Willy, Panther, Ninja, , Loco - those games had trully amazing music tracks in them - they still inspire me decades later :) Or the music on some Polish games - like Hans Kloss , Neron, Misja (Mission) or Władcy Ciemności (Lord's of Darkness).

Mate, thank you so much, this is awesome!

Nostalgic Overload by Ballblazer - Title, Boulder Dash, Giana Sisters Remix, The Tail Of Beta Lyrae, Whistlers Brothers. I didn't know Warhawk but ok, Rob Hubberard is superb quality as always. I was missing Necromancer. Thanks for compiling.

great compilation

Jet Set Willy! Such a beautiful melody! Extirpator is a hidden gem! (I know it's a Saxon remix from C64, in fact) And then Draconus, International Karate and Warhawk, obviously.

bellísimos recuerdos.. tengo 46 años y es pura nostalgia...🥲

the best compilation of videogame...!!

I love chiptune. It always sounds fun and somewhat heartwarming.

Some of these I know well. Thanks!

where is Ninja Commando, Blinky's Scary School ?

Temple of Apshai was one of my favorite Atari chip bit music tracks.

First game I ever loaded up on my 800xl was colony! Great tune, great game that sadly you could never finish due to a glitch/bug. Also a favourite was an abbuc tune or two not on this list,. Gnome demo, and 'in space' demo. Done on the black magic music composer I believe. Great quality upload. Thanks!

They're back......👁️👁️👽🌏🌎🌍🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧

I really like the A8's sound chip. In a lot of ways it reminds me of the NES and Gameboy's sound. I never really cared for the SID chip the the C64, but then that could just be the way people were using it.

@nothingspecial4421

5 жыл бұрын

I am also not much in the C64 musics, too many are not melodic and lose theirself in the arbitrariness of some effects. But I have found some melodic ones in a style very fitting also for the Atari 800 and included them in two compilations of mine: Best of Atari 800 and C64 music #2 kzread.info/dash/bejne/eax4uM6hlr2tlLA.html and Best of Various computer music kzread.info/dash/bejne/X2ifsbiefZnLqM4.html

@nothingspecial4421

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I meant Best of Atari 800 and C64 music #2 above.

@Gamevet

5 жыл бұрын

Your loss!

i'm memorizing now each moment of me as a kid

the Panther was really cool at the time. Both gameplay and the tune.

Jet Set Willy is my favorite!

Great themes

👍👍

Nice list. BallBlaster FTW. Incomplete without Necromancer though....

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Jet Set Willy BEST 😀

Warhawk and panther just the best ....played for hours.even through Hifi sounded good!

@Virtualik

Жыл бұрын

Ты знаешь !

This should have a million thumbs up.

Warhawk and IK+!

Listening to Atari music is somewhat surreal haha. I cannot describe any other fashion…

some of these will sound fucking awesome in a hardcore track

When the you when making a playlist when you uhhh… you know?

we want more atari 8bit

33:33 goes hard

Very good compilation! I think the Giana Sisters remix here might not be from Pokey nor an Atari or is it a softsynth?

1:02:36 love this one! I have another couple of ones to find now.

Jet set Willy the best..

10:20 Put at 1.20 for the intended speed.

Panther is best !

if you play Hardwired demo (Amiga), and then music from Panther... Shame that Amiga guy didn't give any credit to original composer (both versions are monumental though).

Conan musics are magic and really better what C64 version

Datasoft's Bruce Lee has 2 versions and the title screen music is different between the 2.

Ball Blazer is playing a bit slow though. Like it's a the 60Hz NTSC version being played on a 50Hz PAL system or something.

esta es musica y no mamadas

Panther sounds better on XL/XE than the C64. Also Ballblazer and BMX Simulator on Atari 8-bit kick SID butt

falta THINKER y LAZER MANIA

I remember having program which had top 25 song from atari, but cannot remember the name, help!!

They should make an actual hit out.of Capone!!

No esta la intro de milk race

How does Atari sound chip produces these "spiky" sounds which OPL/SID/AY don't produce?

@MarkxUK1

4 жыл бұрын

I've often wondered this as well. It does a very good emulated sawtooth wave. It sounds as though the chip is being driven at different speeds.

Music The best 64 kb.

Zorro - the best :)

52.10

Penelope scott samples these bro i swear im not crazy

I owned the Bruce Lee game, the cassette and then the floppy disk. And I never hear that song.

Question re: Ballblazer on here... I didn't own this game. Did it have the same tune every time? Quite clearly someone wrote a randomised widdle algorithm that goes up and down the scales and just let the crazy go. It's not a tune, it's like those terrible AI auto-compositions you hear online. Using the same seed every play would result in the same widdle every play.... using a different seed would have had different results on each load of the play screen.

@nothingspecial4421

3 жыл бұрын

The Atari 8-bit has a hardware random register. The tune uses this register to play random sequences, thus every play sounds different, especially noticeable in the ongoing rhythm part. I dont know if the usual Atari sound players for PC init this register with a true random value.

Hypn🙈🙉🙊tic*allexpo

Over all Atari was better than the C64, for a start the C64 was next to useless for programming while the Atari had a Berry good programming platform, I speak as a computer programmer myself. Secondly colour and music was far better on the Atari. The C64 was more popular as it was sold a lot more strongly, mainly to people who never programmed or gave up due to the poor programming support on it, as a result more games was produced for the C64 but these were generally of a lower standard than Atari games.

@bitset3741

2 жыл бұрын

Wha??? Dude you are totally wrong on most of this. Atari 800xl, 400 and then 800 were my first computers, and currently I have a 65XE. I have also owned several C64's and have coded for all of them. I have no clue what you are talking about "C64...useless for programming.." and "...Atari...good programming platform..." I am assuming you aren't talking about Basic, since both were garbage - C64 no graphics or sound commands in Basic, while Atari had the slowest version of Basic of any machine even though its CPU was one of the fastest. If you are talking about Basic... then you are not a computer programmer. If you are talking about Assembly, which you should be, then they are almost identical as far as programming utilities. Both have some very good Assembler/monitor and other utilities. I started programming on the Atari, but when I got a C64 I was blown away on how much more powerful the VIC 2 chip was than GTIA/Antic, and how much more capable Sid was than Pokey for music. Pokey is great for percussion and Bass and SFX, but Sid was better for everything else. Vic2 - more and better text modes with hardware scrolling and better color capabilities. - more and better sprites Sid - multiple waveform types (yes, it is useful for a lot of stuff) - multiple filters - much more useful generally than distortion with polynomial counters - ring modulation - makes very useful metallic sounds. - much better frequency resolution. (pokey has 8bit note resolution only and sometimes channels interfere with each other and pull things out of tune) "Poor programming support" - I had all of the official Atari programming manuals, they were very good, but paled in comparison to the Commodore C64 Programmers Reference manual. And yes there were over 3 times as many C64 and compatibles sold than Atari 8bit machines. That means that a lot more people tried programming on the C64, that doesn't mean the C64 is worse because most weren't good coders. If you compare garbage on one to treasure on the other it makes no sense whichever direction you go. Compare actual well done ports on one system to the other, and be honest, you will find that both systems are very evenly matched because although the Atari has slightly less capable video and audio, its faster CPU allows it to generate many of the same effects. An example of that is sprite multiplexing - both systems can multiplex sprites to allow many more than the 4 hardware ones of the Atari, 8 of the C64, but that has to be done in software using the CPU and since the Atari has a faster CPU it can do that a bit better, while still keeping everything else going. HOWEVER that actually requires careful coding and hence a better coder. Say you have 2 entry level coders, on the Atari he can do 4 sprites with as much ease as a C64 coder can do 8. A higher level coder can easily have 64 going on both, an conceivably have an easier time on Atari, because he has more CPU cycles to spare. What this really comes down to is nostalgia and preference, very subjective things. I think objectively C64 has the better video and sound, but also objectively, Atari's faster CPU allow it to keep up. So the subjective "Pokey sounds so awesomely grungy" does stand, because Pokey is great, but is it actually objectively better, no, it is not.

@cedynski

2 жыл бұрын

C64 must have been really useless to programming, since it has so much software (games, demos, utils, etc.). die hard Atarian tells you this mate ;)

@pennysteam

2 жыл бұрын

As an computer programmer I have been programming on all platforms since the 80s and I am still doing so, I was referring to the poor implementation of basic was no use for people learning to program for the first time. I didn’t find the Atari if you knew what you was doing any slower than others computers at that time, while the C64 simply didn’t support its own features resulting in everything being peaks and pokes. Yes I did also program in machine code and I had several programs published.

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