Lifework by Arise
CLLHLLLLBANNJ?, - ...THE STAIRWAY WAS DARK AND UNINVITING. HE TURNED HIS HEAD AROUND AND LOOKED BEHIND, AT HIS TRUSTY, MECHANICAL COMPANION THAT HAS TRAVELLED WITH HIM FOR MANY MILES. THE LIGHT OF THE MOON WAS REFLECTING FROM THE BLACK SURFACE OF THE CAR, AS HE REACHED INTO HIS POCKET FOR THE KEYS. HE PRESSED THE BUTTON, AND SMILED AS THE TURN SIGNALS BLINKED TOWARDS HIM THEIR GOODBYE. CLIMBING THE SECOND FLOOR, HE FELT TIRED. ECHOES OF LAST FEW HOURS, THUMPING BEATS AND HUMAN VOICES, STILL RESONATED IN HIS HEAD. SLOWLY AND SILENTLY, HE TURNED THE KEYS TO OPEN THE FRONT DOOR. INSIDE, THE CORRIDOR LIGHT WAS KEPT LIT FOR HIM. CAREFULLY, HE PUT HIS BAGS ON THE FLOOR, AND ENTERED THE BEDROOM. THE FLAT WAS QUIET AND WARM, AND THE ONLY SOUNDS FILLING THE AIR WERE GENTLE BREATHS OF HIS WIFE AND SON, SLEEPING. CLOSER,LOOKING DOWN AT BOTH OF THEM, HE SMILED AGAIN, THEN TURNED AND LEFT. THE WORK ROOM WAS WAITING. THOUGH THE NIGHT WAS AT IT'S END, THERE WAS STILL SOMETHING TO BE DONE. HE POURED HIMSELF SOMETHING TO DRINK, AND TURNED ON THE DESK LIGHT. SITTING COMFORTABLY IN HIS CHAIR, HE STOPPED FOR A SECOND. HIS MIND WANDERED A BIT, BUT THEN HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND PUT HIS HEADPHONES ON. HIS FINGER ON THE POWER BUTTON, HE CLOSED HIS EYES AND PRESSED IT. THERE IT WAS, THE OLD FAMILIAR SOUND OF THE BREADBOX. HE SMILED AGAIN. THERE WERE STORIES THAT NEEDED TO BE TOLD... LIFEWORK, BORN FOR BURNING. BY ARISE DESIGNS IN THE YEAR OF 2010. FEATURING MUSIC BY WACKEE, REGISTERBREAKING CODE BY FENEK, AND DELIGHTFUL ARTWORKS BY BIMBER, CARRION, JOE AND VALSARY. BROUGHT TO LIFE AT THE X2010. LET THE FLAME PURIFY YOUR SOUL. -
- OLY - MORRIS/AGONY!- - - WELCOME TO WACEK'S SECOND MUSIC COLLECTION, BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE ONE AND ONLY: - CREW IN 2010 :) JUST IN CASE YOU ARE WONDERING, THIS HAS BEEN PLANNED FOR 14 YEARS NOW, AND THE SOLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLLECTION TOOK ALMOST PRECISELY 12 MONTHS. I KNOW THAT YOU MAY NOT SEE THIS RIGHT AWAY :) BUT BELIEVE ME, WHAT IS UNDER THE HOOD OF THIS BEAST IS SOME MOST ADVANCED JUGGLING OF MNEMONICS YOU MAY EXPERIENCE IN A STRAIGHTFORWARD MUSIC COLLECTION. LET'S START BY INTRODUCING THE LAYOUT. FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE NOTICED THIS, BUT YOU CAN START THE COLLECTION FROM ANY OF THE 2 SIDES OF THE DISK. MORE DETAILS LATER ON. WE BEGIN WITH A SMALL INTRO, WITH A GREAT PICTURE DONE BY JOE/CREST, SOME MUSIC AND TEXT BY ME, AND CODE BY FENEK.THIS SCROLL HAS MANY POSSIBILITIES, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE VARIABLE SPEEDS, BUT SINCE IT IS ALREADY NOT THE MOST EASY ONE TO READ, WE DECIDED NOT TO UTILIZE THAT (BUT BELIEVE ME, IT IS THERE :). NEXT WE HAVE A SMALL GFX THAT WILL MAKE YOUR WAIT FOR THE MAIN LAYOUT MORE PLEASANT. NOW, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND AFTER TALKING TO FENEK, THERE IS SHITLOAD OF CRAZY STUFF GOING IN THE BACKGROUND - CODEWISE, LIKE RELOCATING, DEPACKING ETC. EVEN SOME RELOCATING OF THE RELOCATOR. THIS IS ALSO WHERE THE MUSIC IS RANDOMLY CHOSEN AND LOADED. YES, EVERYTIME YOU START THE COLLECTION (AND FROM WHICH SIDE OF THE DISK YOU DO IT), IT MAY START WITH A DIFFERENT MSX. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. ALSO, SINCE THIS COLLECTION HAS 4 DIFFERENT LAYOUT BACKGROUNDS, IT IS ALSO RANDOMLY LOADED AT THAT MOMENT! THEN WE ENTER THE MAIN SCREEN. YOU ARE GREETED WITH A INFO/HELP SCREEN, SO TRY TO REMEMBER THE KEYS FOR PLAYING WITH THE COLLECTION, BECAUSE THIS SCREEN WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE LATER! AS YOU WILL SEE BY THAT TIME, THE MAIN LAYOUT IS A SPLIT BETWEEN HIRES AND FLI/AFLI GFX (I SAY SPLIT, BUT THE GFX ARE OVERLAPPING, SO IT'S A SIMPLIFICATION AT BEST). AFTER PRESSING ENTER YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THE PART ON THE LEFT IS MENU/"LYRICS" SCREEN. MENU CONSISTS OF 3 PAGES, 11 TRACKS EACH, DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS: - MENU CONSISTS OF SOME OLDER, OR SOMEWHAT "CLASSIC" TRACKS. - MENU CONTAINS SOME SPECIAL VERSIONS OF TRACKS, AND - IS FOR MORE WEIRD/ EXPERIMENTAL STUFF I HAVE DONE. YOU CAN MOVE THROUGH THE MENUS BY USING THE KEYBOARD ARROWS (A SMALL INVERTED RECTANGLE IS MARKING WHICH TRACK YOU ARE CURRENTLY ON). ALSO, RIGHT BOTTOM CORNER SHOWS WHICH MENU PAGE YOU ARE CURRENTLY BROWSING. EVERY TRACK HAS ITS "INFO/LYRICS" SCREEN YOU SHOULD BE ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH, IF YOU'VE EVER CHECKED MY PREVIOUS COLLECTION HATEWORK. AFTER SELECTING THE TRACK PRESS RETURN TO LOAD IT. FIRST, THE INFO WILL BE LOADED, AND THEN THE ZAK ITSELF. ALSO, IF THERE IS A NEED TO FLIP THE DISK, YOU WILL SEE THIS INFORMATION IN THE STATUS BAR ON THE RIGHT BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN. DISK SIDE DETECTION IS AUTOMATIC. YOU CAN THEN LISTEN TO THE TRACK, RESTART IT WITH SPACE BAR OR PRESS RETURN TO GO BACK TO THE MENU. YOU MAY NOTICE, THAT THERE IS ALSO A SMALL INDICATION, CENTER BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, THAT SAYS "MAN" OR "AUT". THIS IS THE AUTOLOAD LAYOUT MODE. "MAN" (MANUAL) MEANS THAT ALL THE TIME YOU CAN PRESS ONE OF THE FUNCTION KEYS TO SWITCH BETWEEN FOUR LAYOUT GFX. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF "AUT" (AUTO) IS ON, THE LAYOUTS CHANGE AUTOMATICALLY AFTER AROUND 90 SECONDS INTO EACH TRACK. AFTER THIS AUTOMATIC CHANGE THE NEXT ONE WILL HAPPEN NOT EARLIER THAN YOU SWITCH TO ANOTHER TRACK. YOU CAN SWITCH BETWEEN THE MODES BY PRESSING COMMODORE KEY. ALSO, IF YOU PRESS ANY OF THE FUNCTION KEYS, THE MODE AUTOMATICALLY CHANGES TO "MANUAL". SO THIS IS HOW THE LAYOUT WORKS. I HOPE YOU REALLY ENJOY IT, BECAUSE TO MAKE ALL THOSE THINGS POSSIBLE FENEK REALLY WORKED HIS ASS OFF. IT TAKES MOST OF THE MEMORY AND MAKES IT REALLY FUCKING FRAGMENTED, SO IN CASE OF MOST OF THE TRACKS THEY ARE SPLIT BETWEEN TWO MEMORY REGIONS :) SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO USE ANY OF THOSE TRACKS, JUST DON'T RIP IT, GET IN TOUCH WITH ME, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU IN A PROPER, USEABLE FORM. IN ANY CASE YOU CAN EASILY CONTACT ME VIA CSDB (THE PLACE TO BE :) OR VIA EMAIL: - IT WOULD BE NICE TO INCLUDE HERE A PROPER GREETINGS LIST, BUT SINCE WE ALL HAVE PLANE TO X IN A FEW HOURS, WE ARE SORRY BUT WE ARE TOO FUCKING TIRED TO DO THAT. MY THANK YOU'S GO TO FENEK, BIMBER, CARRION, JOE, VALSARY, KRILL, BOOKER, KORDIAUKIS, LUKE, TURBOSNAIL, ELBAN. WITHOUT YOU THIS SHIT WOULD NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY. YOU GUYS FUCKING ROCK. OUR GREETINGS GO OUT TO ALL THE GROUPS THAT ARE STILL OUT THERE AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS. FOR ALL THE WONDERFULL RELEASES YOU ARE STILL PUTTING OUT TO THE SCENE, THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THE SPIRIT ALIVE! NOW, FOR A FEW MORE WORDS OF BLAH ABOUT THE TRACKS INCLUDED IN THIS COLLECTION. - - - - - - - - - - - CODE:MORRIS, MSX:CANE, FONT:TSL - - - 
CLLHLLLLBANNJ?, - ...THE STAIRWAY WAS DARK AND UNINVITING. HE TURNED HIS HEAD AROUND AND LOOKED BEHIND, AT HIS TRUSTY, MECHANICAL COMPANION THAT HAS TRAVELLED WITH HIM FOR MANY MILES. THE LIGHT OF THE MOON WAS REFLECTING FROM THE BLACK SURFACE OF THE CAR, AS HE REACHED INTO HIS POCKET FOR THE KEYS. HE PRESSED THE BUTTON, AND SMILED AS THE TURN SIGNALS BLINKED TOWARDS HIM THEIR GOODBYE. CLIMBING THE SECOND FLOOR, HE FELT TIRED. ECHOES OF LAST FEW HOURS, THUMPING BEATS AND HUMAN VOICES, STILL RESONATED IN HIS HEAD. SLOWLY AND SILENTLY, HE TURNED THE KEYS TO OPEN THE FRONT DOOR. INSIDE, THE CORRIDOR LIGHT WAS KEPT LIT FOR HIM. CAREFULLY, HE PUT HIS BAGS ON THE FLOOR, AND ENTERED THE BEDROOM. THE FLAT WAS QUIET AND WARM, AND THE ONLY SOUNDS FILLING THE AIR WERE GENTLE BREATHS OF HIS WIFE AND SON, SLEEPING. CLOSER,LOOKING DOWN AT BOTH OF THEM, HE SMILED AGAIN, THEN TURNED AND LEFT. THE WORK ROOM WAS WAITING. THOUGH THE NIGHT WAS AT IT'S END, THERE WAS STILL SOMETHING TO BE DONE. HE POURED HIMSELF SOMETHING TO DRINK, AND TURNED ON THE DESK LIGHT. SITTING COMFORTABLY IN HIS CHAIR, HE STOPPED FOR A SECOND. HIS MIND WANDERED A BIT, BUT THEN HE TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND PUT HIS HEADPHONES ON. HIS FINGER ON THE POWER BUTTON, HE CLOSED HIS EYES AND PRESSED IT. THERE IT WAS, THE OLD FAMILIAR SOUND OF THE BREADBOX. HE SMILED AGAIN. THERE WERE STORIES THAT NEEDED TO BE TOLD... 
- OLY - MORRIS/AGONY!- - - WELCOME TO WACEK'S SECOND MUSIC COLLECTION, BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE ONE AND ONLY: - CREW IN 2010 :) JUST IN CASE YOU ARE WONDERING, THIS HAS BEEN PLANNED FOR 14 YEARS NOW, AND THE SOLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLLECTION TOOK ALMOST PRECISELY 12 MONTHS. I KNOW THAT YOU MAY NOT SEE THIS RIGHT AWAY :) BUT BELIEVE ME, WHAT IS UNDER THE HOOD OF THIS BEAST IS SOME MOST ADVANCED JUGGLING OF MNEMONICS YOU MAY EXPERIENCE IN A STRAIGHTFORWARD MUSIC COLLECTION. LET'S START BY INTRODUCING THE LAYOUT. FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE NOTICED THIS, BUT YOU CAN START THE COLLECTION FROM ANY OF THE 2 SIDES OF THE DISK. MORE DETAILS LATER ON. WE BEGIN WITH A SMALL INTRO, WITH A GREAT PICTURE DONE BY JOE/CREST, SOME MUSIC AND TEXT BY ME, AND CODE BY FENEK.THIS SCROLL HAS MANY POSSIBILITIES, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE VARIABLE SPEEDS, BUT SINCE IT IS ALREADY NOT THE MOST EASY ONE TO READ, WE DECIDED NOT TO UTILIZE THAT (BUT BELIEVE ME, IT IS THERE :). NEXT WE HAVE A SMALL GFX THAT WILL MAKE YOUR WAIT FOR THE MAIN LAYOUT MORE PLEASANT. NOW, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND AFTER TALKING TO FENEK, THERE IS SHITLOAD OF CRAZY STUFF GOING IN THE BACKGROUND - CODEWISE, LIKE RELOCATING, DEPACKING ETC. EVEN SOME RELOCATING OF THE RELOCATOR. THIS IS ALSO WHERE THE MUSIC IS RANDOMLY CHOSEN AND LOADED. YES, EVERYTIME YOU START THE COLLECTION (AND FROM WHICH SIDE OF THE DISK YOU DO IT), IT MAY START WITH A DIFFERENT MSX. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. ALSO, SINCE THIS COLLECTION HAS 4 DIFFERENT LAYOUT BACKGROUNDS, IT IS ALSO RANDOMLY LOADED AT THAT MOMENT! THEN WE ENTER THE MAIN SCREEN. YOU ARE GREETED WITH A INFO/HELP SCREEN, SO TRY TO REMEMBER THE KEYS FOR PLAYING WITH THE COLLECTION, BECAUSE THIS SCREEN WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE LATER! AS YOU WILL SEE BY THAT TIME, THE MAIN LAYOUT IS A SPLIT BETWEEN HIRES AND FLI/AFLI GFX (I SAY SPLIT, BUT THE GFX ARE OVERLAPPING, SO IT'S A SIMPLIFICATION AT BEST). AFTER PRESSING ENTER YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THE PART ON THE LEFT IS MENU/"LYRICS" SCREEN. MENU CONSISTS OF 3 PAGES, 11 TRACKS EACH, DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS: - MENU CONSISTS OF SOME OLDER, OR SOMEWHAT "CLASSIC" TRACKS. - MENU CONTAINS SOME SPECIAL VERSIONS OF TRACKS, AND - IS FOR MORE WEIRD/ EXPERIMENTAL STUFF I HAVE DONE. YOU CAN MOVE THROUGH THE MENUS BY USING THE KEYBOARD ARROWS (A SMALL INVERTED RECTANGLE IS MARKING WHICH TRACK YOU ARE CURRENTLY ON). ALSO, RIGHT BOTTOM CORNER SHOWS WHICH MENU PAGE YOU ARE CURRENTLY BROWSING. EVERY TRACK HAS ITS "INFO/LYRICS" SCREEN YOU SHOULD BE ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH, IF YOU'VE EVER CHECKED MY PREVIOUS COLLECTION HATEWORK. AFTER SELECTING THE TRACK PRESS RETURN TO LOAD IT. FIRST, THE INFO WILL BE LOADED, AND THEN THE ZAK ITSELF. ALSO, IF THERE IS A NEED TO FLIP THE DISK, YOU WILL SEE THIS INFORMATION IN THE STATUS BAR ON THE RIGHT BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN. DISK SIDE DETECTION IS AUTOMATIC. YOU CAN THEN LISTEN TO THE TRACK, RESTART IT WITH SPACE BAR OR PRESS RETURN TO GO BACK TO THE MENU. YOU MAY NOTICE, THAT THERE IS ALSO A SMALL INDICATION, CENTER BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, THAT SAYS "MAN" OR "AUT". THIS IS THE AUTOLOAD LAYOUT MODE. "MAN" (MANUAL) MEANS THAT ALL THE TIME YOU CAN PRESS ONE OF THE FUNCTION KEYS TO SWITCH BETWEEN FOUR LAYOUT GFX. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF "AUT" (AUTO) IS ON, THE LAYOUTS CHANGE AUTOMATICALLY AFTER AROUND 90 SECONDS INTO EACH TRACK. AFTER THIS AUTOMATIC CHANGE THE NEXT ONE WILL HAPPEN NOT EARLIER THAN YOU SWITCH TO ANOTHER TRACK. YOU CAN SWITCH BETWEEN THE MODES BY PRESSING COMMODORE KEY. ALSO, IF YOU PRESS ANY OF THE FUNCTION KEYS, THE MODE AUTOMATICALLY CHANGES TO "MANUAL". SO THIS IS HOW THE LAYOUT WORKS. I HOPE YOU REALLY ENJOY IT, BECAUSE TO MAKE ALL THOSE THINGS POSSIBLE FENEK REALLY WORKED HIS ASS OFF. IT TAKES MOST OF THE MEMORY AND MAKES IT REALLY FUCKING FRAGMENTED, SO IN CASE OF MOST OF THE TRACKS THEY ARE SPLIT BETWEEN TWO MEMORY REGIONS :) SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO USE ANY OF THOSE TRACKS, JUST DON'T RIP IT, GET IN TOUCH WITH ME, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU IN A PROPER, USEABLE FORM. IN ANY CASE YOU CAN EASILY CONTACT ME VIA CSDB (THE PLACE TO BE :) OR VIA EMAIL: - IT WOULD BE NICE TO INCLUDE HERE A PROPER GREETINGS LIST, BUT SINCE WE ALL HAVE PLANE TO X IN A FEW HOURS, WE ARE SORRY BUT WE ARE TOO FUCKING TIRED TO DO THAT. MY THANK YOU'S GO TO FENEK, BIMBER, CARRION, JOE, VALSARY, KRILL, BOOKER, KORDIAUKIS, LUKE, TURBOSNAIL, ELBAN. WITHOUT YOU THIS SHIT WOULD NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY. YOU GUYS FUCKING ROCK. OUR GREETINGS GO OUT TO ALL THE GROUPS THAT ARE STILL OUT THERE AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS. FOR ALL THE WONDERFULL RELEASES YOU ARE STILL PUTTING OUT TO THE SCENE, THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THE SPIRIT ALIVE! NOW, FOR A FEW MORE WORDS OF BLAH ABOUT THE TRACKS INCLUDED IN THIS COLLECTION. - - - - - - - - - - - CODE:MORRIS, MSX:CANE, FONT:TSL - - -