C64 Wally Beben's Tetris music oscilloscope view

[tthurman]

Saw this in a post by fraulein and wanted to share it here.

 

 

 

 

[tthurman]

FWIW, this stuff falls into the "meh" category for me usually, but I gave it a listen and must admit that as it goes on it really is pretty damn amazing that this came from a game on a 8 bit computer.

 

[RIP-Felix]

This one's epic!

 

[stigzler]

On 9/3/2019 at 3:08 AM, tthurman said:

Saw this in a post by fraulein and wanted to share it here.

100 points if you know how he got 4 voices working on a 3 voice chip...

[RIP-Felix]

Would it have to do with careful timing to produce harmonic and non-harmonic overtone structures? That could sound like a 4th voice when there are actually 3.

[stigzler]

Errrr. Maybe?

I think I read somewhere that there was a bug in the SID chip that gave an audible click when you changed the volume. They then manipulated this to essentially play a sample. 

It's the bottom line on the scope - sounds like an 80s sample @ that! geeetar...

Whodathunk tetris' music was such a ground breaker?