Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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![[Improved] Starforce (Atari POKEY Cover, Recorded from Real Hardware)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iW03Afmry4s/mqdefault.jpg "[Improved] Starforce (Atari POKEY Cover, Recorded from Real Hardware)
Composed by Thomas Detert, for the Commodore 64.
Originally covered by CorvusScribe, edited by VinsCool.
There were a few mistakes that were fixed here and there, otherwise this is more or less the same compared to the version uploaded by CorvusScribe.
RMT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s8pS2wO2owLsA2C9lml1QVNBSib1w-9T/view?usp=sharing
XEX: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mN60R7LaRof2dcvKhmw8vkI_wRNGR_hf/view?usp=sharing
You can find CorvusScribes original version here: https://youtu.be/soSBR9B6tT0
Recorded from my NTSC Atari 800XL in 6 Passes using Audacity.
The Oscilloscope View was created using Corrscope on Linux.
This was made using an experimental version of VUPlayer that implemented a new method regarding the way the Polycounter Timing Reset is being done.
This should be good enough to stabilise the Playback to get all 4 Channels produce the exact same outcome from the Master Audio, where every Channels are being played at once.
Typically, it would be desynced for certain Waveforms, such as the Distortion C Timbres, but now it looks like everything is a perfect match between the Sound and the Visualisation.
Channels were also synced directly from the Hardware capture by adding a small Click sound at the start of every subsequent Playbacks in order to know precisely where each Channel should be aligned relative to the Master Audio.
It doesnt look like much, but this method is a big time saver since no guesswork is necessary in order to synchronise every channels, down to a single Sample Point Precision.
Essentially, aligning all Channels is just a matter of finding the tiny Click, aligning everything to the same Peak, then Trim Off a couple of Miliseconds from the Beginning so the Click couldnt be audible/visible in the finished video render.")
