Uploaded August 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Atari ST game Sapiens has three midi options, one 3 part multitimbral for Casio CZ keyboards and one 3 part multitimbral for generec midi devices (you choose your own sound to play on the three channels) and the third option is generic monotimbral midi devices.
The Yamaha DX7 was mention as example of monotimbral synth in the game so i recorded the third option using my MU1000 with DX plugin card for DX7 sounds... i added no reverb or such that is MU1000 specific... just pure FM sounds of the DX ("SyntiBrs" with some edit by me).
It sounds ok for music that play using only one instrument (monotimbral) :-)
Music by Gilles Soulet.
Sapiens was released by Loriciel in 1987.
(some screenshots was taken from atarimania.com)
The Atari ST game Sapiens has three midi options, one 3 part multitimbral for Casio CZ keyboards and one 3 part multitimbral for generec midi devices (you choose your own sound to play on the three channels) and the third option is generic monotimbral midi devices.
The Yamaha DX7 was mention as example of monotimbral synth in the game so i recorded the third option using my MU1000 with DX plugin card for DX7 sounds... i added no reverb or such that is MU1000 specific... just pure FM sounds of the DX ("SyntiBrs" with some edit by me).
It sounds ok for music that play using only one instrument (monotimbral) :-)
Music by Gilles Soulet.
Sapiens was released by Loriciel in 1987.
(some screenshots was taken from atarimania.com)
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NecroVisioN was released in 2009 and developed by The Farm 51.
It is a quite hectic FPS with very dramatic music :)
In this video so am i close to the end of chapter 8, the last 10 minutes so do i search for a key that i cant find and eventually i turned of video recording. I did find the key after a longer search later and it turned out i passed it many times :/
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James Pond: Underwater Agent was made by Vectordean and published by Millennium in 1990.
click here 03:02 to go directly to gameplay footage and skip loading time and title music.
After playing the Amiga version (here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZVU345KKM ) so did i decide to try the Atari ST version, the main difference is smaller gameplay area and missing the mission description at the beginning of the levels, no loading screen (that show the island) and also missing the title pic that the Amiga version has now it only show the MGM logo look-a-like. And of course many special effects is missing... transparency and a more simple enter your name screen. Also the exit pipes does not have any number on them so you dont know wich mission they lead to.
This playthrough was just as bad as when i played the Amiga version, but i found out there was some glasses that made you see the invisible enemies and that you could store the glasses at James Ponds house. But i never managed to complete mission 4 this time either :-(
If you play this game on an Atari STE so is it slightly enhanced by using the extended colour palette of the STE for smoother gradients of the background rasters.
I used the budget GBH release for this video. Apparently so does the original full price release from Millennium a bug at mission 8 that makes it impossible to complete the game... but it is no problem for me as i will probably never reach that mission anyway :-)
Recorded from my Atari ST (1 mb) using Micomsoft RGB capturecard SC-500N1 and Xsync-1, software used is AmarecTV and Virtualdub.")
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I thought now when i still had my Yamaha MU1000 connected to my ST so would i try to play some SMF files using it, but it was not easy to find any good SMF players for the ST... Sweet Sixteen Lite is one of the better ones though but not all SMF files sound ok when played in it.
In this video so do i play a couple of XG MIDI songs, they are made for lower end MU-models and thus this video is not to show the potential of the MU1000.
For those pre-MU100 songs so did i setup the MU1000 in MU basic mode wich means it uses lower quality patches to match those from the lower end MU-models better.
These four songs do i play in the video recording:
1 - Casper in Trance by Michael Koch (1998) -MU Basic mode-
2 - XG Trance by Silver Raudsepp AKA. ModeXG (2000)
3 - In the Silicon Forest by Daniel Zarzycki (1999) -MU Basic mode-
4 - Guitar! by Richard Dudeney AKA. The Dude (1998)
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Recorded from my Atari ST (1 mb) using Micomsoft RGB capturecard SC-500N1 and Xsync-1, software used is AmarecTV and Virtualdub.
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Essential Classics was made by Nova and released in 1993 for Amiga.
This is a musicdemo with 7 songs, i like them except for Synthetic Fields wich was a bit boring :-)
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Recorded from my Amiga 500 (1 mb) using Micomsoft RGB capturecard SC-500N1 and Xsync-1, software used is AmarecTV and Virtualdub.
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![James Pond: Underwater Agent - [Amiga 500] Gameplay of level 1, 2 and 4 (1990)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zkZVU345KKM/mqdefault.jpg "James Pond: Underwater Agent - [Amiga 500] Gameplay of level 1, 2 and 4 (1990)
James Pond: Underwater Agent was made by Vectordean and published by Millenium in 1990.
Click here 04:00 to go directly to gameplay and skip loading and title music.
I have been having this Amiga 500 in my possession over 10 years but never tried to start to start it, so i though it was about time to do that and the first game i tried was James Pond.
I only get to mission 4... just like i always do, it is a difficult game and i dont like the invisible enemies that appear in mission 4 :-/
I wonder why the music is playing in mono at the start of mission 1 and play no sound effects until the bonus level is entered?
I play the budget release from GBH in this video.
Recorded from my Amiga 500 (0.5 mb) using Micomsoft RGB capturecard SC-500N1 and Xsync-1, software used is AmarecTV and Virtualdub.")
