Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

Re:Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore ... by ncr100 on Saturday April 25, 2026 @09:25AM (#47901414)

Q: have people attempted to translate this into Tidal Cycles, or Strudel JS? (Pattern playing of music by notation)

Edit: AI says doing the translation would be hard, though doable. https://claude.ai/share/65c16d60-5d27-496b-96a7-40959e95ac62

Edit 2: here is an AI translation of some of the notes, what Claude claims as the main melody:

Edit 3: the original theme is amazing and worth listening to https://youtu.be/sFYzjU-C3mA

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Re:Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore ... by cpldcpu on Saturday April 25, 2026 @11:01AM (#47902004)

I had to give it a try.

Claude, the ole cheater, recognized what the file was, downloaded the psid from the web, found a wasm sid player and built a website around it:

GPT-5.5 built a lot of python scripts to extract the music data. Strudel implementation failed, but I then asked it to build a website:

This is a translation of the music into javascript based on the assembler source.

Really impressive on both accounts. Some iterations were requied for both.

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Re:Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore ... by talideon on Saturday April 25, 2026 @09:53AM (#47901581)

That sounds nothing like any of the Wizball or Game Over tracks, I'm afraid.

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Re:Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore ... by trinsic2 on Saturday April 25, 2026 @09:49PM (#47906536)

Thanks for that. The Laboratory Background riff sounds a lot like versalife[0]

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Re:Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore ... by talideon on Sunday April 26, 2026 @12:38PM (#47911613)

Hah! I never noticed that, but you're right!

For those interested in how the Wizball soundtrack should sound, the best place to go is DeepSID: https://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/MUSICIANS/G/Galway_Marti...

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