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• demo Amiga AGA THE CURE by RETREAM [web]
• I've been asked a few times to release the music separately, and finally I got around to do it! Here it is:
  
  https://soundcloud.com/retream/the-cure
  
  And sorry for the delay :p
• isokadded on the 2020-07-24 14:33:01
• demo Amiga AGA THE CURE by RETREAM [web]
• @all
  
  I'm really thankful for your nice comments, especially those that show heartfelt involvement. You made me really happy! I'm not thanking each and everyone of you only not to make this too gushy.
  
  One quick note: yes, it's a political message, but before that and more than that, it's social and personal ;)
  
  Now on to some specific observations/questions...
  
  
  @StingRay
  
  I had noticed the piggy, but also that it constitutes a proper vote that affects the score, so I thought it would be just as unfair and even silly if the author himself somehow affected the score negatively. But if the piggy is the proper choice as per the rules/conventions here, I apologize. Unfortunately I can't undo my vote, so I'd be happy if someone who hasn't voted yet and would give a thumbs-up compensated my mistake with a piggy.
  
  
  @?4???./Lemon + mad
  
  I'm speechless. Thanks for the bottom of my heart.
  Additional thanks for having taken the time to swallow the info file. By the way, I have noticed a grammar mistake due to a leftover and also that something was missing or had to be improved, so I have provided a new file - I guess it's going to be updated as soon as an admin finds the time to.
  
  
  @wysiwtf
  
  I see what you mean, but the nature of the presentation already makes understanding the message difficult enough: if the message had been indirect/subtle, then it would have almost completely escaped the viewers, thus making the demo a failure ;)
  
  As for the music, here's some detailed info:
  * it lasts 5 minutes and 23.2 seconds;
  * the original data is 48 kHz, 16 bit, stereo;
  * for the demo, the data has been downsampled to 28867 Hz (the Amiga maximum in 15 kHz screen modes, for who isn't familiar with the machine's capabilities) 8 bit stereo;
  * therefore, the raw data amounts to (5*60 + 23.2) * 28867 * 2 = 18659628 bytes;
  * I compressed the data with a custom lossless method (Huffman-based, no rocket science) that brings it to 10902907 bytes (5429340 left + 5473567 right);
  * the data is decompressed in real time by an algorithm I wrote specifically for an unexpanded A1200, as I needed it for a game I published slightly more than one year ago;
  * every frame the algorithm decompresses just slightly more than the amount of data strictly needed (so, after a bunch of frames, the internal buffers are full and the decompression stops for a frame);
  * on my 68030-equipped Amiga, decompressing takes about 42 rasterlines, i.e. about 14% of a frame time.
  
  
  @Aasemoon
  
  No, it isn't available and actually I didn't even plan to release the music alone. It can be done, though. At the moment I'm a bit too busy with development (of Amiga games, that is) and, even more importantly, real life issues, but I'll keep your request in mind and as soon as I release the music I'll post about it here.
  Thanks for your interest and indirect suggestion!
• isokadded on the 2020-07-14 13:23:41
• demo Amiga AGA THE CURE by RETREAM [web]
• Thanks, everybody! Your nice words are much appreciated :)
  Also, in order to avoid flooding the place with other comments like this one, thanks in advance for any future compliment.
  
  (Excuse my noobness, but it looks like there isn't a way to post a comment without giving a vote, so I gave a thumbs-up; it feels unfair though, so if an mod could remove that, I'd be happy.)
• rulezadded on the 2020-07-12 18:29:38
• game Commodore 64 Caren and the Tangled Tentacles (v1.1) [pal/ntsc] by PriorArt
• It looks like a masterpiece, I just wish I had time to play it!
• rulezadded on the 2016-02-24 17:48:13