Street Hawk Demo by Boz
**** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 **** 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE READY. LOAD: SEARCHING FOUND STREET HAWK DEMO LOADING READY. RUN 9_ - - HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE "STREET HAWK DEMO", MADE ESPECIALLY FOR ^ BACK IN TIME LIVE: BRIGHTON 2003! _ YOU'RE NOW LISTENING TO THE UNRELEASED C64 MUSIC MADE BY THE DEMI-GOD OF SID MUSIC, MARTIN GALWAY! THE MUSIC IS COPYRIGHT - 1986 MARTIN GALWAY. THE MAIN THEME (KEY 'A') IS A COVER OF "LE PARC" BY TANGERINE DREAM, WHICH WAS THE THEME TUNE TO THE 80S TV SERIES. - - [ HELLO FOLKS! ] BOZ HERE WITH MY FIRST SCROLLY MESSAGE FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME! IT'S GREAT THAT I'VE BEEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO WRITE THIS MESSAGE, WHICH CAME ABOUT THANKS TO MARTIN KEEPING HIS SOURCE DISKS FOR SO LONG! - PROJECT: GALWAY CAME ABOUT THANKS TO CHRIS, WHO FOUND OUT FROM MARTIN THAT HE STILL HAD HIS C128D BUT WITH A BROKEN POWER SUPPLY. MARTIN THEN SHIPPED IT OVER TO CHRIS, AND ALLAN BAIRSTOW GENEROUSLY CONTRIBUTED A POWER SUPPLY TO GET IT WORKING. THEN, I PICKED IT UP AND STARTED RECORDING EVERY GALWAY SID TUNE I COULD GET MY HANDS ON, MAINLY USING PSID TO CONVERT THE SID TUNES BACK ONTO THE C64, AND USING JON WELLS' 'ULTIMATE GALWAY COLLECTION' WHICH IS IN THE BINARY ZONE COLLECTION (ASK KENZ!). THESE TUNES AND SOUND EFFECTS WERE THEN RUN THROUGH SEVERAL NOISE-REDUCTION ALGORITHMS (DEPENDING ON WHAT WAS GOING ON AT CERTAIN POINTS IN THE TUNE) TO GET RID OF THAT BACKGROUND HUM THAT THE SID ALWAYS SPEWED FORTH. THEN, IN MAY, MARTIN FINDS HIS SOURCE DISKS! THE DISKS ARE SHIPPED OVER TO BOZ HQ AND I BEGIN MY QUEST TO COMPILE THE TUNES. MARTIN'S OLDER TUNES CAN BE COMPILE USING ZEUS, BUT HIS NEWER TUNES WERE WRITTEN FOR OCEAN'S CROSS-ASSEMBLER ON THE ATARI ST. BECAUSE THIS ISN'T AROUND, I HAD TO WRITE MY OWN CROSS-ASSEMBLER ON THE PC. THANKFULLY, AFTER HOURS OF DEVELOPMENT, I MANAGED TO GET IT GOING, AND STREET HAWK SPRANG TO LIFE! AT THIS POINT, KENZ GOT INVOLVED, FIRSTLY TO HELP CHOOSE THE TRACKS THAT WERE TO APPEAR ON THE DOUBLE CD, BUT MAINLY TO DESIGN THE CD. THE DESIGN FOLLOWS THE COMMODORE DESIGN WITH BLUE COVER AND THE PROGRESSIVELY-WIDER WHITE STRIPES AT THE BOTTOM, JUST LIKE THE PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE GUIDE THAT I STILL HAVE. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I THINK HE'S DONE A FANTASTIC JOB. VERY COLOURFUL, VERY INFORMATIVE AND VERY RETRO, ALL IN ONE GO! KENZ WILL BE ALONG LATER WITH HIS WAFFLE, SO I'M SURE HE'LL REGALE YOU WITH HIS WORK. PROJECT: GALWAY DOESN'T STOP HERE THOUGH - THERE IS A DVD THAT WILL BE COMING OUT NEXT YEAR, WITH ALL OF MARTIN'S TUNES AND LOTS OF EXTRAS. THE TUNES WILL BE RE-RECORDED AT DVD-AUDIO QUALITY, WHICH IS 24 BITS AND 96 KHZ. THE SID RUNS AT 24 BITS SO IT'S THE NEAREST YOU'LL GET TO HEARING GALWAY'S TUNES AS HE HEARD THEM WHEN COMPOSING THEM! - ONE THING I'VE ALWAYS SAID ABOUT MARTIN - HE MADE TRANCE MUSIC BEFORE IT HAD A NAME! I SPOKE TO HIM ON THE TELEPHONE JUST BEFORE THE CD WAS READY TO BE PRESSED, AND HE SAID: 'I MAY NEVER HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO MULTIPLE-VOICES LIKE ROB (HUBBARD) DID, BUT I'M PROUD THAT I ALWAYS MADE MUSIC THAT YOU CAN LISTEN TO IN A DARK ROOM AND LIGHT UP A SPLIFF.' YOU SAID IT, MARTIN. NO-ONE ELSE QUITE MANAGED TO MAKE THE SID SOUND AS SUBLIME AS YOU DID! - - RIGHT, THAT'S ENOUGH BOLLOX FROM ME. IN A MOMENT I'LL PASS YOU OVER TO KENZ, BUT FIRST I HAVE SOME PERSONAL GREETS TO GET ON WITH... [ JOLLY JOVIAL GREGARIOUS GREETINGS [ GO OUT TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE: - ] KENZ ] - ] CHRIS ABBOTT ] - ] DJ SKITZ ] - ] MARCEL DONNE ] - ] KWED (JAN) ] - ] MARK H-B ] - ] P.P.O.T. ] - ] FROODLE ] - ] CHAIN ] - ] GARION ] - ] PAUL R. ] - ] NED ] - ] ANNIFER ] - ] LEE KOLIT ] - ] DAVE MEZ ] - ] NATZ ] - ] SEAN CONNELLY ] - ] STEVE BARRETT ] - ] OCTAVE SOUNDS ] - ] ALLAN BAIRSTOW ] - ] TANYA ABBOTT ] - - AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MARTIN GALWAY FOR THE MUSIC AND FOR ALLOWING US TO MAKE PROJECT: GALWAY! OH, AND ANYONE I MISSED OFF... SORRY, BUT MY BRAIN IS CRAP! - - RIGHT, THAT'S IT FROM ME! HAVE A GOOD'UN, AND STAY HERE FOR KENZ..... SEEYA! - - GREETINGS FELLOW CARBON-BASED CREATURES AND WELCOME TO THIS SECTION OF THE SCROLLY MESSAGE WHICH WAS TYPED IN BY THE FINGERS OF KENZ! BLIMEY, IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I'VE PRODDED IN A SCROLLTEXT FOR A C64 DEMO. IN FACT, IT WAS BACK IN 2001 WHEN I LAST WROTE A C64 SCROLLY - AND THAT WAS FOR THE COVERMOUNT PROGRAMS FOR THE LAST EVER ISSUE OF COMMODORE ZONE (SNIFFLE!) BUT NOW IT'S SEPTEMBER 2003 AND I'M BACK!! IT'S CERTAINLY GOOD TO BE SCROLLING ACROSS THE SCREEN IN SUCH A HISTORIC C64 DEMO - ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING I WAS VERY NEARLY NOT AROUND TO SEE THIS ... ! BUT THAT'S ANOTHER STORY. ANYWAY, I HOPE YOU ARE ENJOYING THIS STUNNING SELECTION OF TUNES AND JINGLES THAT WERE PRODUCED BY THE C64 MUSIC LEGEND MARTIN GALWAY FOR THE UNRELEASED C64 GAME STREET HAWK. IT'S BEEN QUITE AN ADVENTURE GETTING THESE TUNES TO YOU AS YOU WILL HAVE READ IN BOZ'S PART OF THE SCROLLY. IT WAS AN AMAZING MOMENT WHEN BOZ FIRST ASSEMBLED MARTIN'S C64 CODE AND GOT THIS MUSIC PLAYING FOR THE FIRST TIME. IT WAS EVEN COOLER HEARING IT PLAYED FROM MARTIN'S VERY OWN SID CHIP WHEN WE RECORDED THE MUSIC FOR THE PROJECT:GALWAY CD COLLECTION! IF YOU ARE A FAN OF MARTIN'S C64 MUSIC AND WANT TO HEAR IT -REALLY- SHOULD SOUND THEN GRAB YOURSELF A COPY OF THE 2 CD SET NOW! BUT ENOUGH BLATANT PRODUCT PLUGGING (HEHE!) WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY ABOUT THIS DEMO? WELL, THE RATHER NATTY PICTURE ABOVE WAS TAKEN FROM THE SPECTRUM VERSION OF THE GAME AND WAS PORTED TO THE C64 USING THE 'VIDI-ZX' TRANSFER METHOD WHICH WAS PIONEERED BY JON WELLS. THIS ROUTINE WAS FIRST PUT TO USE IN THE -DON'T PUSH ME- DEMO THAT WAS RELEASED WITH COMMODORE ZONE ISSUE 5. THAT DEMO FEATURED THE SPECCY LOADING FROM -RAMBO- AND MUSIC BY MARTIN GALWAY! AND HERE WE ARE MANY YEARS LATER STILL DOING THE SAME STUFF! HEHE! ANYWAY, MOVING SWIFTLY ON, IT'S NOW TIME FOR YOU TO WATCH THE NAMES OF LOTS OF PEOPLE YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW GO SLIDING ACROSS THE SCREEN - YEP, IT'S GREETINGS TIME!! A BIG COO-EEE AND A HEARTY WAVE [ FROM THE SPAWNY RETRO TWONK GOES OUT TO:- CHRIS ABBOTT, RICHARD BAYLISS, ROB BERNARDO, EMILY BOOTH, SIMON BOOTH, THE MIGHTY BOZ/, CADAVER, CEZ, ALEX CHANDON, JASON CAMPBELL, BILL CASSIDY, PAUL CHAPMAN, SEAN CONNOLLY, PHIL DAVIES, DOKK, EMILY DUNN, JONATHAN DUNN, EQUINOXE, ELST 93, FEEKZOID, FROSTIE, DANNY G, FRANK GASKING, IRIDIUM, JAZZCAT, KERNAL, LEE KOLIT, ALEKS KROTOSKI, PAUL KUBISZYN, VINNY MAINOLFI, MERMAN, DAVE MEZ, PHIL NICHOLSON, SIMON NICOL, ALDO, PALUMBO, SHAUN PEARSON, WAZ PILKINGTON, PRESS PLAY ON TAPE, SIMON REECE, ANDY ROBERTS, MATT SIMMONDS, SKITZ, KATE SMITH, SHAUN SOUTHERN, STYLER, RICK TANNER, TLF, UBIK, JON WELLS, WAYNE WOMERSLEY, TIM WRIGHT, YAK AND ALF YNGVE. A VERY SPECIAL GREETING GOES OUT TO MY LOVELY FIANCE %%NATZ%% - A HUGE THANKS TO HER FOR BEING SO PATIENT WITH ME WHILE I GET ON WITH ALL MY RETRO SHENANIGANS!! LUV U BABE! ] ERM ,AHEM! AND THAT'S IT FOR THE GREETS. APOLOGIES IF I'VE FORGOTTEN ANYBODY - MY WOBBLY 16K MEMORY ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE AND I THINK I'M A FEW BITS SHORT OF A KILOBYTE THESE DAYS! RIGHT THEN, NOW IT'S TIME FOR ME TO GET ALL SELF INDULGENT AND WAFFLE ON ABOUT WHAT I'VE BEEN GETTING UP TO RECENTLY. BINARY ZONE PD IS STILL GOING STRONG ALTHOUGH IT NOW LIVES ONLINE IN THE FORM OF -BINARY ZONE INTERACTIVE-. HEAD ON OVER TO WWW.BINARYZONE.CO.UK TO CHECK OUT MY LIL' RETRO SITE. I DON'T ACTUALLY SEND OUT C64 SOFTWARE ON DISK ANY MORE (TOO MUCH HASSLE AND MY DISK-DRIVES ARE CRUMBLING WITH OLD AGE!) BUT THE BINARY ZONE COLLECTION IS STILL AVAILABLE ON CD-ROM FROM THE BZ WEBSITE. SINCE RETIRING FROM THE C64 SCENE (WHICH I STILL ACTIVELY DABBLE IN MIND YOU!) I'VE BECOME INVOLVED IN THE FILM AND TV INDUSTRY DURING THE LAST FEW YEARS. I'VE BEEN RUNNING THE WEBSITE FOR THE CULT TV BABE -EMILY BOOTH- FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS (WWW.BOUFF.TV) AND ALSO DO LOTS OF SPOOKY AND RUDE WEBSITE TYPE THINGS FOR THE BRILLIANT -SALVATION FILMS- IN SOHO. I'VE ACTUALLY BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME IN SOHO DURING THE LAST FEW YEARS AND IT WAS DURING ONE OF MY 'WORK RELATED' (HONEST GUV!) LONDON TRIPS THAT I MET MY LOVELY FIANCE NATASHA WHO WAS STUDYING THERE AT THE TIME. ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER (]) AND I PROPOSED TO HER EARLIER THIS YEAR. WE NOW LIVE TOGETHER IN SUNNY DROITWICH AND SHARE A HOUSE WITH FELLOW RETRO-FIEND AND ALL-ROUND NICE CHAP BOZ AND HAVE TWO BUNNIES AND LOTS OF OLD COMPUTERS TO SUPPORT. SO THERE YOU GO, THAT'S THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE OLD KENZOID AT THE MOMENT! I'D BETTER SCOOT NOW OR ELSE BOZ WILL GIVE ME A PADDINGTON BEAR HARD STARE FOR USING UP ALL THE MEMORY IN THIS DEMO WITH MY INANE WAFFLINGS! TAKE IT EASY YOU LOT AND HOPEFULLY I'LL GET THE CHANCE TO SCROLL ACROSS YOUR SCREEN AGAIN IN ANOTHER C64 DEMO ... MAYBE!! SO I'LL END THIS TEXT WITH THE IMMORTAL LINE FROM A CERTAIN 80S TV SHOW INVOLVING A RATHER FAST MOTORCYCLE ..... 'JESSE MACH, RIIIIIDE STREEEEET HUUUURRRRRKKKKKK!' ....... - O N ONEGBNAANNOAAA - NNNNNNNNNNNNNNAAANNOAOOAA - CCCCCCCCCCCCOAAACOONOOOO - OCCCOOOONOOOJ - OCP ACAACACCOOOO - 0 ACBOOCCCCCCCCOAACCOOO - GYF%FYD[F'F[D F,F D]F)F]DYF%FYD[F'F[D -