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by: Joachim Wijnhoven
copyright: 2001 Samar Productions

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TITLE: press fire [from the Amiga game Shadow of the Beast III]
ARTIST: Tim Wright
COMMENT: "Of course I had to squeeze the Amiga 4 tracks in to C64's 3. But the tune uses 2 tracks for the part which isn't the lead or bass. How do you call that part anyway? (backing?) While going through old Amiga 500 games with buddy Roland (we were looking through because we are planning a C64 demo consisting converted Amiga pics in FLI-Interlace) we stumbled upon this tune. I like it very much so I tried if I could rip it with my Datel Electronics' Amiga Action Replay MK III. I froze the game and typed in tracker. And golly yes! The cartridge found the tune and I saved it to disc and loaded it in my Protracker soundtool. Together with Roland I converted it. (He works much quicker than me). We are planning to do more conversions. After this conversion Roland made a program to convert from MOD to SID, right into my player as I said in Action Biker Remix STIL text. But now it even converts arpeggios! The presets are: bass from Psycho Pigs UXB. Flute resembles Amiga lead sample instrument but has a little waveform 41 tick at the beginning and is made by Roland. Other preset is from Henning Rokling's Henning_Rokling-02.sid which is used in demo Wild At Heart. We first made an arpeggio sound consisting of two different c notes but it didn't work out well. In beginning of the tune you can hear a build up of decay and sustain in this preset. To get this effect we had to make 4 presets just changing the decay and sustain from 2 to 8. The wave on effects on bass and Rokling preset make it sound ok on C64. Often this effect is used to substitute normal hi hat sounds. This ditty is one of my favourite tunes!" (JW)