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by: Kai Walter (PVCF)
copyright: 1995 Reflex

CSDb entry: https://csdb.dk/sid/?id=23574

Videoclock:	PAL 50Hz
SIDmodel:	MOS8580
Datasize:	$1802
Load Address:	$0800
Init Address:	$0800
Play Address:	$0803
Songs:	1
Songlengths:	5:36
Playroutine:	KB/TOM

STIL:

COMMENT: "This is one of the few songs which I have made in our own SID-editor called LSD (Low Sound Dealer, IIRC). One of my costly and longest LSD tracks. in this routine I could trigger demoparts with numeric commands in the soundpattern, Quiss (the programmer of LSD and some of the trackmoparts in Mathematica) have included a fallback routine in the demo, that waits 10 sec if the floppydrive of the user is to slow and a trigger was missed. Unfortunately he forgot to tell me that the first numeric trigger he was expecting was a "0". But I began the count with "1" ... so 10 sec failbackpause is in all versions of mathematica, right before the Doom-part. Funny thing: exact 5.34 min long was the centerpart, I composed exact 5.34 min :) but I don't know about the 10 sec fall back routine, and Quiss didn't tell me... he simply took notice that the music was too "short", removed the stop-bytes at the end of the LSD track and was satisfied. Watching the trackmo first time and live at THE PARTY'95 I was pissed of as I saw/heard the result: the music wild remixed itself after 5.34 unless the last part was finished. I learned one thing: (its true up to now, 2008!!) programmers don't have any savvy about music. Last funny thing: I asked all people around me what they thought about this crazy and disharmonic music? All(!) comments sounded like this: "If PVCF compose like this it has to be like this" ... aha.. ha ..ha... Funny thing: after the democompetition the organizers have shown this trackmo again, in this time (1995) Mathematica was like a revolution on C64 in design & code and I put in at 1:36 a little irish sounding melody which forced some people with hooked arms to dance together on tables, I was very very very proud :p It's possible that you need a new SID chip to hear this part, sorry for that. (yes, the trackmo has a SID chip-selector and detector, but this should be used in an other trackmo of us, read the STIL comments for Mathematica_tune_1_6581.sid for more information about this)." (PVCF)