analmux Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 I'm living with this question for a long time. Who wrote the title screen music of the game 'rescue on fractalus' ? Is it a classical composer or a member of the programming team? The tune reminds me a lot of a classical tune you often hear in tv programs about wars. ----- mux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApolloBoy Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 Charlie Kellner, according to the manual of the 5200 version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 When a player crashes into one of these scenes, the game sounds a dirge. if a player completes a level, he or she receives a musical fanfare. The music for Rescue was composed primarily by Charlie Kellner, whose programming accomplishments include the Alpha Syntauri sound synthesizer. "Most of the time, I knew what I wanted to make it sound like. It was a matter of finding the right combination of sound effects with the machine (the Atari sound registers)," said Kellner, who brought to the group four and a half years experience with Apple computers and the 6502 processor, the same processor at the heart of the Atari. more info at: http://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n4/lucasfilm.html devwebcl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted November 23, 2003 Share Posted November 23, 2003 It sounds a lot like "Ride of the Valkyries" by Wagner. -Bry rotv_midi.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted November 23, 2003 Share Posted November 23, 2003 bryde... it sounds like a synapse game... isn't it? but you could be right... hve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted November 23, 2003 Share Posted November 23, 2003 bryde... it sounds like a synapse game... isn't it? but you could be right... hve As bryede mentioned: It sounds a lot like ROTV in German "Ritt der Walküre" ... so he IS right But... as it is only similar sounding... it is a different melody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted November 23, 2003 Share Posted November 23, 2003 After comparing "ear by ear" I would say the melody IS the same. You only have problems to identify it because it is heavy out of tune... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analmux Posted November 23, 2003 Author Share Posted November 23, 2003 As bryede mentioned: It sounds a lot like ROTV in German "Ritt der Walküre" ... so he IS right But... as it is only similar sounding... it is a different melody Yup, that is exactly the classical piece of music I ment. Everytime I hear the Rescue tune I have an association with this piece, so it's no coincidence. The melody is indeed almost the same, but the rhythm scheme is different. But it sure was the inspiration for Charlie Kellner, or we can say that he stole the tune Thanks all, for helping me out. :wink: ----- mux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted November 23, 2003 Share Posted November 23, 2003 in theory the thread is closed... but take some secs to search the newsgroups... http://groups.google.de/groups?q=rescue+on...tor5.com&rnum=3 and it's julian from factor5... if you search further esp. fractalus source code you find other posts by him reg. amiga port, psx port, n64 port... interesting that star wars:rogue leader uses fractalus code... for the mountains... hve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 @ sack very nice... i like it... i do not know the original but imho it sounds like it was done for pokey... imho (maybe emkay will disagree but...) the it still sounds like an atari tune... hve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emkay Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 It seems Heaven is such astonished by his new Toy that he is doulbeposting into the wrong thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heaven/TQA Posted November 25, 2003 Share Posted November 25, 2003 yup... i hated c64 but around 1988 my friend & i destroyed 2 c64 playing hatrick & international karate over weeks.... and when he lost 9:10 playing about nearly 1 year every week (tournament, who wins 10 times 1st got 1 point) he jumped on the c64 and got broke the c64 complete into pieces... the 2nd one lost many keys of the keyboard by throwing competition pro's joysticks directly on the "return" "L" "*" and "shift" keys... so the most important ones... hahahahha that were times and we weren't teenagers at that time anymore... so as it is ebay time i pay for this sin... and get one "lost soul" home... next are my lost snes modules... hve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avram Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 More Lucasfilm interviews can be found here: http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap10/lucas_part1.html And here: http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap11/lucas_part2.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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