Supercars on the Amiga : what was the music? [Archive]

homerjhandley

15-08-2007, 20:18

anyone know where the music was taken from?

I mean the jingle that played, sure it was a part of a classical tune.

difficult to explain but the people who played it will know (and would love to play it again!)

degeneration

15-08-2007, 20:23

Slightly unrelated but every time I listen to Holst's "Mars: The Bringer of Wars" I think of Mego-lo-mania.

T4V

17-08-2007, 03:59

Not sure of the tune but it was the theme tune for the developer "Magnetic Fields" who also did the Lotus trilogy.

EDIT - Did a quick Google and found this (http://www.exotica.org.uk/tunes/unexotica/games/Super_Cars_2.html) website that has a download of the tune in question.

You'll need to unLHA it and then a 8svx player to play it but the filename "8svx.wagner" should give you a clue to the composer. ;)

NickG

17-08-2007, 09:21

I have wanted to know this for ages, I even once embarrassingly 'sang' it to a guy at work who was into classical music without success.

You can hear/watch the inro here:

http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php%3Fid%3D1018

gZa

17-08-2007, 14:22

Guess you ain't watched Excalibur huh?!

NickG

18-08-2007, 11:14

Funny you should say that, I thought it was from the final battle scene, so ealier in the week i found out what the track was called and downloaded it, it was as I remembered but not the magnetic fields bit, is it form a different part of the film?

DB2k

18-08-2007, 13:44

I was SuperCars 2 please. Only game I ever remember where it auto accellerated and you had to brake manually - great idea.

randz

18-08-2007, 18:37

William Shatners Wig

18-08-2007, 20:48

I was SuperCars 2 please. Only game I ever remember where it auto accellerated and you had to brake manually - great idea.

Sure you didn't have a stuck fire button? Wasn't it one of the first Amiga games to incorporate two fire button joypads? Accelerate with one button and fire with the other?

DB2k

18-08-2007, 21:40

no idea, I had it on the far superior Atari ST and played it with the keyboard. In which space bar was brake.

The404

19-08-2007, 13:20

no idea, I had it on the far superior Atari ST <snip>

must...restrain...self...must...not...argue!

homerjhandley

19-08-2007, 13:25

Sure you didn't have a stuck fire button? Wasn't it one of the first Amiga games to incorporate two fire button joypads? Accelerate with one button and fire with the other?

It did have the mode for auto-accelaration,never liked it myself.

William Shatners Wig

19-08-2007, 14:56

no idea, I had it on the far superior Atari ST and played it with the keyboard. In which space bar was brake.

It's operating system was call TOS for a reason ;).

gZa

20-08-2007, 09:18

At least it had an 'onboard' OS.

Insert 'Workbench 3.2 in Drive A:' :lol:

ST Vs Amiga some feud don't die! :nuts:

Morton

20-08-2007, 10:11

must...restrain...self...must...not...argue!

:lol: Me too, I was taken back about 15-16 years with that comment. Maybe it was a good machine (hmm) but in my school year of 200 kids, there was only one kid with an ST - everyone else who had a games machine had an Amiga (or a SNES).

Ok, so it's Wagner but I can't find which opera, does anyone know?

T4V

20-08-2007, 10:30

Paula, Denise and love-a-ly Fat Agnes, just 3 girls ST(d) owners will never know/ ;)

xraystan

21-08-2007, 13:15

Paula, Denise and love-a-ly Fat Agnes, just 3 girls ST(d) owners will never know/ ;)

It also guaranteed that everyone who owned one could say they had a girlfriend.;)

drush9999

21-08-2007, 17:58

:lol: Me too, I was taken back about 15-16 years with that comment. Maybe it was a good machine (hmm) but in my school year of 200 kids, there was only one kid with an ST - everyone else who had a games machine had an Amiga (or a SNES).

Ok, so it's Wagner but I can't find which opera, does anyone know?

"Siegfried's Funeral March" from "Twilight of the Gods"

Though I could be wrong

T4V

22-08-2007, 01:31

"Siegfried's Funeral March" from "Twilight of the Gods"

Though I could be wrong
You are not wrong, just stuck it into iTunes and found 33 versions of it. :nuts:

ljp

22-08-2007, 07:19

Just spent the past hour downloading MOD files of old Amiga games. God feel old now, but tunes like Magic Pockets, Gods, Killing Game Show, Lotus Turbo Challenge and Zenon II are classics I suppose.

T4V

22-08-2007, 07:23

Download Lotus II and see if you can find the subliminal message ;)

ljp

22-08-2007, 07:23

Is it possible to convert MOD to mp3????????????

T4V

22-08-2007, 07:24

pretty sure it is... I'll have a look.

T4V

22-08-2007, 07:25

http://www.zittware.com/Products/CDMaster32/Tutorials/mod_conversion.html

First one I found

Also it seem you can load WinAMP and use the Disk Writer Plugin to save the MOD as a WAV.

Dno

22-08-2007, 08:34

Ah, Supercars2.. One of my fondest gaming memories..

Myself and a mate used to play it everyday after school and use the weapons screen like the stock market - Buy when cheap, don't use them, and then sell when the price shoots up. We'd then buy as many homing missles as possible, and fire them all off in one go on the last map.. :lol:

Then there was that first map on either medium or hard that was always corrupted, and you had to guess the track. :suspect:

bioneuro

24-08-2007, 23:24

Then there was that first map on either medium or hard that was always corrupted, and you had to guess the track. :suspect:

:lol::lol:

LOL'd at that just then. Ah, those were the days of acquired floppy disks:suspect:

hardtofin

26-08-2007, 21:35

Here you go mate, through the wonders of apple i hijacked the sound for you and made it into an mp3.

enjoy,

hardtofin :)

http://www.ygs.myby.co.uk/supercars.mp3

Dno

27-08-2007, 08:38

That's fantastic mate... You just knocked about 12 years off me.

hardtofin

27-08-2007, 11:06

haha no worries :)

homerjhandley

27-08-2007, 12:51

cheers.

have posted it on another forum (using my webspace) and asked them to guess the tune.

so far its been mortal combat, sonic and tetris !!!!

cluderi

27-08-2007, 13:13

Fantastic, I'm now having flashbacks.

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/886/supercarsii03fi6.th.gif (http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=supercarsii03fi6.gif)

Dno

27-08-2007, 13:17

:lol:, I'd forgotten about that. Ah, back in the days when 'lawsuit' was something you sent to the dry cleaners.

T4V

27-08-2007, 13:28

mullethead

28-08-2007, 19:54

I take your Amiga racing game intro music and raise you....

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/80dFwuDe3TA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/80dFwuDe3TA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

The Follin Brothers... audio gods. :notworthy:

I'll see your Folin Brothers and raise you....

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qN9VMFlhVV4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qN9VMFlhVV4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Jean-Michel Jarre :D

T4V

28-08-2007, 21:04

Trouble me not with your "low quality" sample of Zoolook Logie, Hardly a racing game, but if I have to beat that (which I did all ready, see above) I'll bring out the big guns...

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fvha_2hAzq0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fvha_2hAzq0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Turrican II, Chris Hüelsbeck, if the Follins are gods then he is the God of Gods!

How the squeezed the whole game and about 2 hours of the best 16 bit music ever on just one 880k floppy just amazes me... and it should you too!