Martin Galway (born January 3, 1966, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is one of the best known composers of music for the Commodore 64 sound chip, the SID soundchip. His works include Parallax, Terra Cresta and Wizball's scores, as well as the music used in the loader for the C64 version of Arkanoid. January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom. ... Dieu et mon droit (Royal motto) (French for God and my right)3 Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Area  - Total Ranked 4th 13,843 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 4th 1,685... Commodore 64 (1982) The Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64/CBM64, C= 64) is a home computer with 64 kilobytes of RAM that was popular in the 1980s. ... MOS Technology SIDs: The right image shows a 6581 from MOS Technology, at the time they were known as the Commodore Semiconductor Group (CSG) and the left image shows an 8580 from MOS Technology. ... Wizball on the C64 Wizball on the Atari ST Wizball is the name of a computer game written by Jon Hare and Chris Yates (who together formed the company Sensible_Software) and released in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. ... Arkanoid is a simple yet addictive arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. ...

Biography

As a 17-year-old schoolkid in 1983, Martin Galway used to write music for the BBC Micro, while some of his friends made games. Soon Martin realized that they could even make money, and approached Ocean Software. They liked the game (a Pac-Man clone), and Martin offered his skills as a musician. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The BBC Micro, affectionately known as the Beeb, was an early home computer. ... The familiar Ocean logotype had an often prominent placement on the box art and is recognized by many people. ... Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution by Midway Games in 1979. ...

Ocean were so impressed with his tunes that they let him borrow a complete assembly language development system, and he started composing right away.

During the eighties, Martin made music for many of the popular Commodore 64 games, and became one of the most famous SID artists. Galway is best known for his soaring, anthemic compositions, for making heavy use of the SID chip's ring modulation feature, and for compostions which made unconventional changes to SID register settings while notes were playing (producing his trademark echoey sound). Perhaps his most famous song is the title-piece for Comic Bakery, a sweeping 3-voice masterpiece. This is also also one of the most pirated C64 songs, as it was featured in a number of demos (what crackers used to put before a pirated game to give shout-outs and brag) and on music discs. Another song that many Commodore 64 users remember is his adaptation of the Rambo II theme used in the game. Ring modulation is an audio effect performed by multiplying two audio signals, where one is typically a sine-wave or another simple waveform. ... Copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owners exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it. ... A frame part of an animation displayed in real time. ... Software cracking is the modification of software to remove encoded copy prevention. ... The eye is an adaptation. ...

Martin also made music for one of Origin Systems' first adventure/roleplaying games, Times of Lore, with several tunes that were intended to suit the medieval setting. As he was also a programmer, he wrote an algorithm that randomized the chords that the guitar voice plays, making for a very long and varying piece. Origin Systems, Inc. ... Adventure is a genre of video game typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. ... In role-playing, participants adopt characters, or parts, that have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. ... Times of Lore was an early computer-based roleplaying game with a detailed world. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ... A programmer or software developer is someone who programs computers, i. ... Flowcharts are often used to represent algorithms. ... In music and music theory, a chord (from the Middle English cord) short for accord is three or more different notes or pitches sounding simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, over a period of time. ...

He was also the first musician to get published with sampled sounds on the Commodore, with the theme for the Arkanoid conversion. When asked about how he did it, he answered: "I figured out how samples were played by hacking into someone else's code ... OK, I admit it ... It was a drum synthesizer package called Digidrums, actually, so you could still say I was the first to include samples in a piece of music. [...] Never would I claim to have invented that technique, I just got it published first. In fact, I couldn't really figure out where they got the sample data, just that they were wiggling the volume register, so I tried to make up my own drum sample sounds in realtime - which is the flatulence stuff that shipped in Arkanoid. [...] After the project was in the shops I gained access to some real drum samples, and I slid those into my own custom version of the tune. The one that's in the shops is kind of a collage of farts & burps, don't you think? [...] Later I was able to acquire some proper drum samples and by Game Over it got quite sophisticated." In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In computer programming, the word code refers to instructions to a computer in a programming language. ... Flatulence is the presence of a mixture of gases known as flatus that are produced by symbiotic bacteria and yeasts living in the gastrointestinal tract of mammals. ... Game Over is a shoot-em-up computer game developed by Spanish software company Dinamic and published by Imagine in 1987 for various home computer platforms. ...

Martin has said that he will never remake his songs, as they were made for the SID chip and would sound wrong on real instruments. However, he says that he could possibly start making music for real instruments. His original SID music can be found from The High Voltage SID Collection. The High Voltage SID Collection is both the name of a project to build a collection of music created on the MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID sound chip in Commodore CBM-II, Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 home computers and the collection itself. ...

Quote

• "Well, [legend]'s a fitting term, because I'm probably not what I'm cracked up to be, just like a legend isn't."

Trivia

• Martin is the nephew of flautist James Galway.

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Ludography

• Swag (Micrmania, 1984)
• Daley Thompson's Decathlon (Ocean, 1984)
• Yie Ar Kung Fu (Imagine, 1985)
• Hyper Sports (Imagine/Konami, 1985)
• Kong Strikes Back (Ocean, 1985)
• The Neverending Story (Ocean, 1985)
• Ocean Loader (The two different songs were actually used in several games released by Ocean) (Ocean, 1985)
• Roland's Ratrace (Ocean, 1985)
• Mikie (Imagine, 1986)
• Ping Pong (Imagine, 1986)
• Comic Bakery (Imagine, 1986)
• Terra Cresta' (Imagine, 1986)
• Green Beret (Imagine/Konami, 1986)
• Helikopter Jagd (Ocean, 1986)
• Highlander (Ocean, 1986)
• Hunchback II (Ocean, 1986)
• Match Day (Ocean, 1986)
• Miami Vice (Ocean, 1986)
• Parallax (Ocean, 1986)
• Rambo: First Blood Part II (Ocean, 1986)
• Short Circuit (Ocean, 1986)
• Arkanoid (Imagine, 1987)
• Athena (Imagine, 1987)
• Game Over (Imagine, 1987)
• Rastan (Imagine, 1987)
• Slap Fight (Imagine, 1987)
• Yie Ar Kung Fu II (Imagine, 1987)
• Combat School (Ocean, 1987)
• Wizball (Ocean, 1987)
• Microprose Soccer (Microprose, 1988)
• Times of Lore (Origin, 1988)
• Insects in Space (Sensible Software, 1989)
• Wing Commander 2: Vengeance of the Kilrathi (Origin, 1991)
• Ultima VII: The Black Gate (Origin, 1992)
• Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (Origin, 1992)
• Strike Commander (Electronic Arts/Origin, 1993)
• Wing Commander 4: The Price of Freedom (Electronic Arts/Origin, 1995)
• The Kilrathi Saga (Electronic Arts, 1996)
• Starlancer (Crave Entertainment/Microsoft, 2000)

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References

• High Voltage SID Collection
• Martin Galway in the STIL

External links

• Remix64 Interview Sánchez, Claudio (Jul. 10, 2003)
• Remix64 Interview Carr, Neil (Mar. 28, 2001)
• Two interviews with Martin Galway
• Composer profile at OverClocked ReMix