TnC Collected works : TnC ZoundZ and DemoZ Disk Part 7

Welcome to almost the last part of the series
Soundz & DemoZ Disks, Part 7.

I call this part, "The Soundtracker Edition 1".
I guess I don't have to explain that.

On this disk, you will find some Basic Replayers I once made, some info about each Soundtracker song and an example with lots of comments how to load and play a Soundtracker song in Basic.







And also a long sample of the song Living Dead of Mad At The World, a short of Christian band which sounded like Depeche Mode.

After releasing their 1st album with Living Dead and more great songs, they changed their sound to more hard rock.

I did not like it, the combi of the electric guitar with heavy electronics was much better choice.

On Part 8 you will find another sample of a track from their first album.

I liked this MATW album so much, I not only sampled some song, but after buying the record I bought blindly also the CD version, which had 2 bonus tracks.
Well, after listening I skipped them every time I played the CD.
They were sooooo bad, it made me wonder why the other songs got so much better...
Note: I hope you can listen to the sample, cause BlueMSX plays only silence.

Now I could tell you more about each Soundtracker song on this disk, but you better read the text on the disk.

Sorry, this disk has only 4 items in the main menu,
but I promise the next Part 8 will have much more.

I forgot something, because the Basic Replayers need a lot of Basic space, you have to start the disk with CTRL key pressed when booting.
Then Disk-Basic has more space to run the replayers.

I tried to find some interesting stuff about each Soundtracker song on the web, but no way.

* Here are some alternative wiki pages about the classical composers:

Joseph Kuffner & Francesco Spinacino  & Pieter van der Staak

* And some non-wiki info about the band: Mad At The World


* An MSX info page about Ernst Schulle or Unicorn Corporation 

* Couple of videos I found for Bye Bye Love / Memory / Perhaps Love / Love Me Tender

Yeah, this time no remixes or mashups, just a fresh version or a nice video of these pop songs.

* The PSG version from the original game "Lenam - Sword of Legend - Event 1"
* The guitar book of Pieter van der Staak including "Hiking to Haifa" and "Bound for Bulgaria" (see Part 3)

I am done now with Part 7, Part 8 is much more interesting...
Here are Mediafire and Pcloud

TnC Collected works : TnC ToolZ DemoZ Disk Part D

I completely forgot this ToolZ & DemoZ Disk Part D.
It seemed I was so busy with the "Paranoid Demo 2016" I forgot to post about Part D.

This part is special cause it had lots of graphics tools and some little demos.

Almost 4 screens full of tools demos, so lot to talk about?

Well, no. But I can try.
I did it with every disk.

There are demo's like TV-WALL, Random lines, Blockbox, 000Fractal, Fast MCCA Colorscroll, House 1/2/3/, Pagina, Intro Metal, all experiments for use in bigger programs, you will find them on other disks of TnC Collected works. Because I was already busy with the Soundz & DemoZ series and decided all at once to go on with the ToolZ & DemoZ series, all these demos have annoying random sound effects.

Some are pictures viewers with something special, like: Random Color, MED-Soft, MUP and CAT-PIC. CAT-PIC was one of the last MSX projects
I was working on (1996).

The idea was to create catalog pictures showing a thumbnail of every picture on the disk even if it's was made for a different SCREEN type. Well, I never came so far to implemented the conversion part of SCANMENU. It only creates a catalog picture in SCREEN 8 and creates thumbnails for SCREEN 8 pictures.

The main part is the tools, which can be divided into 3 categories:  converters, text readers, color changers.
I won't name all converters one by one, see for yourself. There are enough pictures on this disk to play with.


Every MSX-er creates text readers, cause it's not so easy
to read texts in MSX-Basic, so I made a couple myself.
Check out: CopyEdje and CataInfo.

With color changers, I mean changing the pallette of the pictures in SCREEN 5, 7 and sometimes 8 too.
Like: Color searcher/converter, EditPal5, palet changer.

But wait! There is more!
For example:

- My favorite copy tool in MSX-DOS 1: Autoload
+ It uses your whole memory-mapper to copy (big) files

- My homemade menu with sub-menus:  Homemade
+ Made for own utility disks with lots and lots of programs
- My twice modified MCM Text Scroller: Scroller
+ In SCREEN 0, but easy to use in your own programs.
- My universal MSX-DOS autoloader: Memman
+ I didn't make it, I just made it a bit user-friendlier.


And I mentioned it earlier there are pictures for SCREEN 5, 7 and 8 to play with.
In the MED-Soft (EMP-Soft v0.0) picture viewer, you see some SCREEN 7 pictures made
by Elko Duijm with Graph Saurus of Bit2 (of course).

You see a lot of the color purple in the screenshots, I just like deep purple...

Still want to download this disk: Mediafire
 

My Music Memories: My Doorbell of The White Stripes

It took me a lot of time to post something new. But here it is now.
It's not I don' t like Blogging anymore. I just had a lot of stuff made (and ready to blog about) and I couldn't finish it.
I was still not happy with the end-result. This post was one of the few things that were really finished and I will blog about it now.

I was searching for audio for a song of Bob Fosko "Me vader is behanger" for another project I was working on. Bob Fosko was also heard in an MSX sample of "De Kuil" , see Soundz & DemoZ part 5. Then I found a blog called "Pindakaas" with the original audio, strangely not from YouTube. I consider to post the complete song on YouTube, some day.
Anyway, that blog had only music from YouTube and other sources, without any comments.
In fact, most of the time comments are disabled.
Mmm, why. Don't you want any feedback? Good or bad?



Okay, one of the songs I listened to was this one "My Doorbell". I listened to it, because it was a funny title, a song about a doorbell. And it was. You hear only drums, a keyboard and a singer, boy what a funky tune this is. Of course, I started browsing for more White Stripes on YouTube and after I listened to their most popular songs I had to admin,

I never am a fan. In fact, I believe "My Doorbell" was the most commercial song they ever recorded. Who is they? The White Stripes? I could write the same things that wiki already did, so I only say that Jack White never played the same song the same way and I think Megan White struggled more and more to keep up with Jack. Being a drummer is not easy if the singer and guitar/keyboard player goes freestyle during each song.

Did I tell I only liked "My Doorbell" ? No ? That's true, I found a live recording of an alternative blues song "Ball and Biscuit" and it was the best blues song I heard for years.
Raw guitar riffs, steady drums.

BTW I could help creating a little meme with "My Doorbell"
Sorry for that!

Of course, there are covers of "My Doorbell", like from these "two losers"
( well, Josh Mullen did 51 other covers of famous songs, and all were not bad at all ).
But the best version of "My Doorbell" is the live version of The White Stripes featuring Jools Holland on piano and Jack White on distorted guitar.
It's really something else.

My Music Memories: Bleed of Timmy Trumpet & SCNDL (Monstercat)

When you get older your music taste seems a bit rusty, you like music from a certain decade. For me, it's the 1980's and the 1990's.

So if you son or daughter is listening to music, you probably dislike it, cause it's in your ears out of sync, too loud or something else.

However sometimes old tunes could be new favorites of your next generation.
And sometimes it's time to make new musical memories.

I posted earlier about my Monstercat favs and before I found out to create playlists on YouTube. I downloaded some music video's from YouTube months ago. Like this one.
Recently I downloaded some anti-stress exercises on an old USB-stick of 512 Mb and
when I was browsing through all my downloads I found a couple of Monstercat songs



I listened and I could not help my self, liking this one "Bleed" is a very simple song.
You just take a short trumpet loop, a drum-computer and somebody who is clearing
his throat (or Bert of Sesamstraat is laughing).
Put it all together in the default Monstercat style and...voila...

Monstercat described the music style as BOUNCE, I think it' s another glitch-hop or dub-step clone. A very funny one.

Life Is Strange - the game the music the story the fan-stuff

I kinda feel a bit strange, cause I want to post a comment about a game I never played.
Life Is Strange comes in 5 Episodes, so it's 5 games you must play to know the whole story. You can play Part 1 for free. 

I saw the whole package on Steam on sale. The title made me curious, so I began to read the comments. How can this game gets so much goodwill ?

And it gets strange cause lots of the comments were from male gamers, 
while the game is really about the friendship (and a bit more) between 2 female teenagers. 

One called Chloe (blue hair) gets always in trouble (or killed)  and the other (Max) save her by rewinding the time. 

So I watched the trailer and spoil everything by looking for the ending in Episode 5. 
I started Pewdiepie video, cause he played the whole game and just like Pewdiepie I was breathless and swept away by the end choice you had to make. 
Yes, it's no more than a interactive story where you must make the desicions, which have their consequences later in the game. But the final desicion, where Max must choose between Chloe or the town she lives in, is hard.

Why ? How weird the conversations may be, you believe in all people in the game, 
specially in Max and Chloe. So at the 2nd Pewdiepie ending, when Max is at the funeral of Chloe, I watched with almost tears in my eyes. It was so so sad...
And I didnt want to play the game anymore, to experience this all again by myself...
So it's a great story to believe in.

Another big plus of the game is the well-chosen music, that really gets under your skill. For example in both endings you here "Spanish Sahara", sounding so sad, but also songs like "To All Of You", "Obstacles", "Mountains", "The Sense Of Me" fits perfectly to scenes in this game. 

You can say all songs wanted to make you sad, but that's not true, luckily. 
Check out the Vortex Club Party Music. 

Life Is Strange had a big impact on all gamers, so on YouTube you can find alternative endings, parodies, new home-made stories and music-videos.
Of course there are different soundtracks to be found and even songs inspired by this game.

I could continue much longer, but it's  better I give you some YouTube links and let you find out yourself what the Life Is Strange game does to you.

Trailer / Pewdiepie's playlist / Parody / Soundtrack / Home-made story / Music-video / 
Vortex Club Party Mix

I also watched Piediepie's video's for Walking Dead, also very tough to watch and make even harder desicions than in Life Is Strange, but it hit me not so hard as Life Is Strange.
Maybe the music in Life Is Strange is better, I dont know.

Have an amazing experience with Life Is Strange.