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The complete C64 music collection                            Jens-Christian Huus
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Music for the game "Orcus", 1990.

This directory contains all the music for "Orcus" except the level-music which
was put in a seperate directory.

The music for the game "Orcus" was ordered by a guy in England who told me that
the game would be much better than any sideways shoot'em up's previously seen
on the C64. Because I believed him I made an extra effort out of the tunes for
this game which I expected to be my final breakthrough. Time went by and the
programmer for the game lost all interest in the game, leaving me with a whole
bunch of unused tunes. Take my advice as a musician for computers today; NEVER
EVER make music for private people! It HAS to be for software houses, complete
with a contract and everything. Deadlines is a nasty thing to work with, but it
makes sure the game is actually RELEASED in the end...

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CONGRAT.DAT     Congratulations

                The end-of-game congratulations tune. It sounds a little bit
                sad for its kind, but I think it would have worked anyway.

INTRO.DAT       Intro

                This tune is one of my favourites of all the music I did. It
                uses a nice set of double voice drums and a funky style. I
                especially like the part from 02:37 to 03:07. On the real C64,
                the filtering gives the snaredrum a really good sound. Both
                this tune and the loader music reuses notes which I originally
                composed in the titletune for the game. At the time of doing
                the music for the game, I thought it would be a nice touch if
                a main theme could be heard throughout the game - just like on
                the movies! :)

LOADER.DAT      Loader

                A very weird theme for the tape loader - it uses parts of the
                same composition as the titletune uses. It really needs a lot
                of filtering on a real C64.

MAIN.DAT        Demo/Hiscore/Title

                The music block for the main game program - (1) is the in-game
                demonstration tune, (2) is the hiscore and (3) is the title. The
                titletune goes into a part at 01:05 which I didn't like at the
                time of composing it. Still, this part contains the notes I
                reused in some of the other "Orcus" tunes. At 02:30 the tune
                becomes much more interesting as it enters a part with hard
                synchronization. The full length of the titletune is 04:19.

BONUS.DAT       Bonus Game

                Four tunes in this one - (1) is bonus ready, (2) is bonus goal
                and (3) is bonus over, all jingles. (4) is the actual bonus
                game track.

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