tymewarp by YM Rockerz [web]
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| let's do the tYMewarp |
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| This time our aim was to create the |
| atmosphere of the early days of home- |
| computers, before the atari st came |
| up. When games like Pacman, Pitfall |
| and Defender flickered on old tv-sets. |
| The days before Hubbard, Galway & co |
| started revolutionizing chipmusic. |
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| Let's resurrect the spirit of classic |
| computer games in the era of atari xl, |
| commodore 16/64 or schneider cpc. |
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| Here are some technical restrictions: |
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| -no buzztone techniques except of pure |
| (non-modulating) sawtooth buzzer |
| -noise-only drums |
| -no sidvoice |
| -no digidrums |
| -(maybe lq-samples for speech or fx |
| -rare use of arpeggios |
| -rare use of echo-fx |
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| [the plot] ........................... |
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| The YM-Rockerz, Lotek Style, Tao, 505, |
| Crazy Q, Exocet, gwEm, drx, Damo, Nemo |
| and Dma-Sc, were enjoying one of their |
| rare meetings at a seedy amusment |
| arcade in Hamburg. While Lotek Style |
| and Crazy Q were busy setting a high |
| score on Sega Rally, Tao, gwEm and |
| Damo were pointedly arguing over YM |
| optimisations. Meantime 505 was trying |
| to find Nemo in order to ponce a |
| cigarette off him. At the fruit |
| machine was DMA-SC, still trying to |
| win back the 50 euro-cents he put in |
| hours earlier, Drx stood next to him, |
| pint in hand, giving him bad advice. |
| Exocet sat by the window, dreamily |
| sketching. |
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| The sky outside grew darker and darker |
| as clouds went across the summer sky, |
| rain started to fall and almost |
| simultaneously the rumble of thunder |
| reverberated through the amusment |
| hall. |
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| "Bloody Hamburg weather", cursed gwEm, |
| "its worse than London here...". |
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| But his bitter complaining was cut |
| short by a blinding flash of |
| electricity as lightning struck the |
| Sega Rally machine simultaneously with |
| Crazy Q hitting 88mph. Lotek Style was |
| thrown from the machine, hair |
| energised into an afro bigger than |
| Bootsy Collins when he was still |
| playing for James Brown. |
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| But something had changed! The storm |
| had gone, the passers by had different |
| fashions, the furniture in the bar was |
| different, and where the Sega Rally |
| machine once exisited a strange arcade |
| console loomed. |
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| Nemo picked up a newspaper from the |
| bar and looked at the date. |
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| "Check this out!", he exclaimed, |
| "We've been transported back in time |
| 20 years". |
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| "You mean its 1984?", said DMA-SC |
| incredulously. |
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| Crazy Q looked out the window - "Its |
| true, he opinioned, "Look at the |
| fashions in the street - the coolest |
| 1980 stylez!". |
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| "Either that or we've been transported |
| to Shoreditch", dissed Damo. |
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| "Thats so cool", said Lotek Style |
| impressed, "Imagine in rare electro |
| vinyls we could buy!". |
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| "What are you talking about man?", |
| questioned gwEm, "80's sucked, drain |
| pipe jeans, Maggie Thatcher... and |
| here my nick doesn't have any lame |
| raver overtones". |
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|"He's right", Drx paniced, "Here theres |
| no internet!!, how can I buy cheap |
| Ataris on ebay.de?". |
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| "Not just that - Atari ST won't be |
| available for another year", said DMA. |
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| Nemo tried to calm everyone down. |
| "OK", said he, "all we have to do is |
| get back to 2004... somehow the arcade |
| game is the key...". |
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| They all crowded round the ancient |
| machine. A single joystick and fire |
| button were the only controls. |
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| "No 6-player action here", sighed 505, |
| "looks like a pretty simple game". |
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| "Primary colour graphics... nice...", |
| commented Exocet sarcastically. |
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| Tao crawled out from the back of the |
| machine. "I've analysed the electro- |
| nics of the arcade console". The |
| others turned to face him. "It has |
| advanced alien technology!". |
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| "You mean like Commodore Amiga?", |
| Lotek Style quipped cheaply. |
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| Everyone simultaneously spat on the |
| ground in disgust. |
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| Tao continued, "It transports the |
| player forward in time 20 years once |
| they reach the highscore board. If the |
| player loses then the Aliens will take |
| over the earth. All we have to do is |
| each play the game - If we win we get |
| to go back to 2004, if we lose Aliens |
| will conquer us, to say nothing of the |
| new-romantic hairstyles we'll have to |
| grow in order to fit in here". |
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| Now the YM Rockerz journey really |
| begins : Its up to you to control the |
| Rockerz through the levels and back to |
| 2004. |
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| Good luck! |
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| [track] ......................... [o1] |
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| - TAO / CREAM - |
| "CRAZY TRAIN" |
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| [track] ......................... [02] |
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| - LOTEK STYLE / TSCC - |
| "SPIELER 1, LOS!" |
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| [track] ......................... [o3] |
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| - TIMBRAL / DEAD HACKERS SOCIETY - |
| "YM STILL HERE" |
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| [track] ......................... [o4] |
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| - DMA-SC / SECTOR ONE - |
| "NINJA ACTION FIGHTER" |
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| [track] ......................... [o5] |
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|: - CRAZY Q / DEAD HACKERS SOCIETY - |
| "ZIP ZAP SPACE ATTACK" |
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| [track] ......................... [o6] |
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|: - GWEM - |
| "LOVE WASHED AWAY WITH THE TIDE" |
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| [track] ......................... [o7] |
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| - BEAST / THE SYNDICATE - |
| "OLDIE" |
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| [track] ......................... [o8] |
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| - 505 / CHECKPOINT^CREATORS - |
| "8 X 8 HERO" |
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| [track] ......................... [o9] |
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| - NEMO / DEAD HACKERS SOCIETY - |
| "BOBBY" |
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| [track] ......................... [1o] |
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| BODENSTAENDIG 2000 |
| "HRVAT" |
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| [ YM Rockerz - backcatalogue ] |
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| 2000 ymr001 ..... Wave upon wave |
| 2002 ymr002 .... Spinning wheels |
| 2003 ymr003 ........... Popstars |
| 2003 ymr004 ........... WarrYorz |
| 2005 ymr005 ........... tYMewarp |
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| [ cyberspace ] |
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| http://ymrockerz.atari.org/ |
| http://www.creamhq.de/ymrockerz |
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