Funky Monkey is back with the forth part of The History of Turrican. This time it covers the rather poor Turrican III, the first game created by Factor and not the genius Manfred Trenz.
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The History of Turrican – Episode 3 “Two”
The Sequel with no Equal! This time FunkyMonkey looks at Turrican 2 – The Final Fight! But it wasn’t Turrican’s final appearance though…
Part 1
Part 2
How you make your own crappy remix….
Anyone can create there own crappy c64 remix. All you have to do is follow these crappy steps.
- Go to HSVC and download the full collections of Commodore 64 SID music.
- Download a SID player to listen to these SIDs.
- Choose a SID to remix.
- Download and use SID2MIDI, convert to convert your chosen SID into a MIDI file
- Open up some Music Sequencer software
- Import the MIDI file you created earlier into your music software.
- Change the default MIDI instruments into some a little more interesting.
- Save the sequence as an MP3 file
- ????
- Profit
For more info on available Music Sequencers check this wikipedia article Music_sequencer
The History of Turrican – Episode 2
Here’s the second part of FunkyMonkey’s History of Turrican video. In this episode we get to the game itself. Released across Eight separate formats, This is Turrican!
(Part 1 of 2)
(Part 2 of 2)
A prize winning Crappy Remix
This remix, beleive it or not is a prize winning remix.
Read more about it at c64walkabout.com and c64glen.com
Soon I will be publish a guide on how you can create your own crappy remixes.
I won Something
The wonderfully named Robinson Mason of the great c64walkabout podcast held a Holiday Remixing Contest, with a prize going to the winner.
I entered this tune;
Despite it not been good, and only taking 15 minutes to create, this tune won. Mainly because it was the only tune entered into the competition, but that’s just a minor detail. My prize was a PC version of the Defender of the Crown Remake.
You can read more about this at c64 walkabout news. For more of my crappy remixes check out C64Glen’s Crappy c64 Remixes .
The History of Turrican – Episode 1 – Origins
Here’s a great Video from FunkyMonkey about Turrican, one of the greatest video games of all time .
Music Monday – Hazel – Nemesis The Warlock
This week I’ve got a C64 remix for you. It’s Rob Hubbard’s “Nemesis The Warlock” remixed by Hazel, who also made the video.
Music Monday – Rob Hubbard – Skate or Die
Back to the Good old C64 for this weeks Music Monday and back to Rob Hubbard with this Intro tune for the EA game Skate or Die.
Clean up Time (Subtune 1)
My third remix was based on Karl Hörnell’s Clean Up Time (Subtune 1). I was inspired to remix this track after hearing Boz playing this on his BBB show on SlayRadio and as I’d promised Anna Black another crappy remix for her Anorak show the following Monday, I quickly knocked this one up.
I usually like to change the notes about in a crappy remix, so it sounds comically out of tune, that was difficult to do with this remix, as when a changed the notes it was almost impossible to notice. So I added some really basic slightly of time drums (inspired by many a poor Amiga MOD using ST-01 sounds) and that strange vocal sample, which again was found on the internet.
Ok, you are now fully up to date with my crappy back catalogue.
Links: Clean Up Time (Subtune 1) by c64glen