| Most of them are. The first two things this site played at me was the fruit machine music from Superfrog (Amiga, 1993, Allister Brimble) [0], then the DisIsSid#3 intro (Amiga, 1996, Manfred Linzer) [1] That's not to say that crackers and musicians don't mingle. While there was not only music made for games, demos, intros, musicdisks and other demoscene productions, there was certainly a lot of chiptunes commissioned for or widely spread by cracktros, with the musicians' support In one particularly interesting case, Mark Knight [2] got a permanent job as a musician for the game company Mindscape, and he could hear his own music, [3] that he'd given to Melon Dezign and had been used by their cracking friends Crystal for the cracktro [4][5] to their crack of Mindscape's game, Moonstone [6] > I received a call from Richard Leinfellner at Mindscape offering me some freelance work, converting the Wing Commander music for the Amiga. I snapped it up and when (almost) completed, he offered me a full-time position as in-house composer. > It could have been the shortest career in history when, during the first week, I heard one of my chiptunes playing in the production office. Mindscape had just
released Moonstone, and had downloaded a copy from a bbs. I stuck my head around to see why they were playing my tune, and quickly saw that the crack intro introducing Moonstone was playing. I silently shuffled out, went back to my room, and shut the door very worried about the consequences of this. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfrog [1] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3416 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Knight_(musician) [3] https://marktdkknight.bandcamp.com/track/maintheme-2-origina... [4] http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/release.php?id=7902 [5] https://flashtro.com/crystal-moonstone/ [6] https://archive.org/details/AmigaDownload/page/n259/mode/2up... |