Nine Lives - Atari ST / Amiga Music Comparison

[HANGINGWANG]

0:48 onwards, been using it for an incoming sms for years now. This is how cutsey music can be depressing. Never could complete this cool game, due to it being bastard hard. Anyone clocked it?

[SpaceAmbientz]

I'm here again... lol

[AzumiRM]

OK Mr Hawkins

[SpaceAmbientz]

I'm back... :D

[SpaceAmbientz]

I'm there again. I missed the music. LOL! :D

[songarakram]

this has got to be the ONLY video on youtube that actualy has clips from the music of nine lives in it. :) thank you

[SpaceAmbientz]

I love this video. :) I do really enjoy music from 9 lives.

[sushicalmagi]

I love the music that plays while the game loads. It's a shame that you only get to hear it once per time you load the game - and when I've tried the game on an ST emulator, the loading music got skipped completely. :( Nice to hear it again, even though it's somewhat obscured by the voice of Stephen Hawking explaining how this video was made.

[stunthumb]

Not really a fair comparison - the ST version is chip music, while the Amiga is sampled. The ST version would be 1/30th the size of the Amiga tune, and would take practically no CPU cycles to play it (interrupt driven). The ST was pretty bad with sampled music, it could handle it at about 7 or 8khz and maybe 20% of the CPU, the STE faired better and was more like the Amiga's sampled sound.

A good comparison might be Shadow of the Beast's title music.

[BagOfMagicFood]

@stunthumb Thanks to you, I now know why Crystal Kingdom Dizzy on Atari ST only uses the same music as the Amiga version on the title screen!

[FirstClassFootage]

Been a while since I logged into my YouTube account. For those of you who liked this mix (and haven't seen it already) I also did one for 'Treasure Island DIzzy' (YouTube video LZa7nuNiMdA)

[br1sban3br1sban31975]

@FirstClassFootage Amiga sound sounds more refined, atari st shound uses chip chunes which we have all heard during the 8 bit era. The amiga will always be superior!!!! Long life the amiga for its superioriry!!!!!

[nicolunacba]

Hmm, Amiga has a better sound, but this music sounds great on Atari

[Akomander]

Both melodies at the same time sound superb... THE IRONY!

[jbiddleston]

The amiga sound is smoother, but i do like the bubbly sound of the ST

[busterflex]

Do some more ...I like your comparison....this is awesome

[AgonyOfTwin]

Super tune, very unspoken. Somebody said the song had a melancholy feel to it. I fully agree, it has the right amount of sadness to make it fun. I like both versions but the ST version is still the trip for me.

[lannabananah]

quality lol. takes me back to my carefree kiddy days :D cheers m8

[CraptinPants76]

i always new the amiga was a more powerful machine than the st thats why i got the amiga,but i never realised just how bad the st's sound chip was........god bless the amiga probably the greatest 16bit machine ever made!!!

[meowmmmmm]

It's a little ironic that you are comparing Atari St music with an Amiga, on an Atari STE which had just as good, if not better sound capabilities as the Amiga. Why don't you compare a decent STE game with an Amiga one?

[FirstClassFootage]

@meowmmmmm

Yeah, the STE had a chip capable of playing samples, but the idea here was to compare the tone generators rather than sample playback (which the Amiga usually handled with slightly less noise).

[meowmmmmm]

@FirstClassFootage They both have clear differences. in some parts each one sounds better. As an owner of the 520 ST which I upgraded to an STE then Falcon, I wish that Atari would have upgraded the Pokey chip for the ST. For it's age, Pokey was a pretty good tone generator, compared to the lackluster Yamaha chip.

[MiggyRGB]

@meowmmmmm I think they should have used the AMY chip that they designed for the XEM. The sound in the ST was primitive for the day, thankfully some clever coder/musicians managed to push some decent tunes out of it & there are some very good pro-tracker playback routines but they chew huge amounts of time. I was really annoyed at this cruddy game being bundled with the STE as it didn't use it's extra(limited) features.

[Commodorian]

@FirstClassFootage Amiga has no PSG, it just used 8bit pcm audio for sound so everything had to be sampled.

[songarakram]

this game was FULL of nightmare fuel for me as a kid... A strange world of crazed cartoons trying to kill you... all we had to defend ourselves was a ball of yarn :(

[brynolf11]

Amiga sounds like crap! Might be the Atari nostalgia speaking, though.

[DE7ChainedDoor]

It reminded me of the MAGNET version SNES x Genesis. It sounds almost like a marriage between Commodore and Atari.

[wrestletube1]

Remix owned both.

[epsotron]

YES!! this is awesome, i loved this game

[Kilrathi333]

Well, amiga was much better. Atari did falcon, but it was more than a little too late. PC's crushed them all.

[Magus10Zeal]

The second one is the one I grew up with ..but I think it sounds complete when there mixed together. Memories...:)

[86Corvus]

Atari version better.

[oulahop]

technically speaking Amiga owns but i even prefer the Atari-ST sound coz it's more robotic-ish.

personal preference

[Bloodlyshiva]

I always found this theme so damm depressing. It's so mournful, especially in the ST one. It only gets out of the doldrums near the end....where it loops back to depression.

[ZXAmiga64]

@Bloodlyshiva i always thought it would be a good theme to listen to if your cat actualy had died, it has a really strange meloncolic feeling about it.

Great to hear the ST version, i liked that. i guess im used to hearing the amiga version at 50Hz, for nostalgia id pick the amiga but i can see why people would like the ST versoin better.

[maliceee]

amiga has it.

[obeest]

i prefer the st sound, did you use the st to do the speech synthesis at the beginning?

[FirstClassFootage]

Nope - I do have an ST Speech Synthesiser somewhere, but couldn't find it. I used 'Say' on the Amiga.

[rdv27]

Amiga wins.

[prezesssss]

AMiGA Rulez!

[trophy242]

To be honest - Atari ST sounds like typical computer from the late 80's. It's very nice sound for me (but I was Atari user). Amiga sounds like a parody of POP band from the 80's for me. What sounds really cool is a mix of both machines. Superb musax! ;-)

[robbis34]

I think the ST-version rocks!

[Ahle2]

More please !!

[Ahle2]

Nice !