Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells on the Commodore 64

[mrsqonk]

Mike oldfield on speed...

[wandererlain]

Wow, that's really neat! Sounds quite close to the original.

[philipriding]

can anyone tell me what c64 musican wrote this music?. thanks.

[Geisttanzer]

@philipriding Oldfield himself, check the link in the description

[nemirn]

Anyone know where I can find this on an image file to run on an emulator?

THANKS!!!!

C=64 RULES!

[jgray127]

OMG! This is a personal "computer historical event" for me. It was 3 in the morning and I had be up on the BBS's when I found and ran this program. My jaw dropped. I was stunned at what I was seeing on the screen - no joke - for this was INCREDIBLE graphics for the time. I disconnected the 64 from my B&W tv and ran downstairs to connect it to the color TV in the family room.  There I sat, at 3 AM, watching and listening to this, and couldn't wait to play for others the next day. Thanks for this!

[sezums]

Awesome lmao

[shicetube]

press space

[JeDorsBeaucoupTrop]

huh ???!??

[renedv]

ahhhh finally I get to hear that beautiful sound again after 25 years. Thank you.

[RetroGamerVX]

Just one question, how did you load the program as from the c64 boot screen, you just type run, never seen that done before?

[Perfectibilisti]

@RetroGamerVX It must be an emulator. You just load the disk "image" into the virtual drive, type run and it boots it by itself. This is actually not the true sound of a C64 SID chip. This is a simulation.

[scvic2006]

@JohnGalt...If my memory serves me correct the C-64 had 32k ram and 32k rom = 64k. So, in reality this was done on 32k of ram. :)

I actually miss my c-64 and c-128. They were great for what they were.

[viznut]

@scvic2006 Nope, the C-64 has 64K of RAM. The ROM and I/O are just mapped in the same 64K address space with it, so some of the RAM gets encumbered unless you switch these blocks off.

But you're right, there's nothing in this production that requires the full 64K of RAM. By today's standards of C-64 programming, this would probably fit quite easily in a 4K program. Summing this to the 8K required by the video mode, you end up with a 12K requirement.

[yutufyoursel]

me encanta mike. es muy bueno.

[VimtoUK]

I'm sure I have this in the loft somewhere with my collection of C64s.

[Chemognoza]

Commodore64, Mike Oldfield and theme from "The Exorcist"? WTF?! o_O

[lukaszswietek]

hahahhahahahaahahah

[mariosilveyra]

Gran trabajo! Que buen extracto de la partitura original! Felicitaciones!

[Ommadawn1975]

Oh wow... I actually had this for my C64 back in the 80's... :D

[SouBieT]

Hell Yeah! This is Brilliant. haha. Never heard anything like it in my life. Haha. I love this. It sounds way to sick :P

[DusteDdekay]

Ahh yes, i remember this.. Could watch it for hours when I was a kid xD

[Johngalt43]

25 years ago, this was major computer creation! Must say this does hurt my head, but it still amazes me what some people could do with a 1 mhz processor and 64 KILObytes of memory!

[jci10]

Are you familiar with the C64 demoscene? What they are doing now is truely spectacular!

[rdisky40]

Now I remember so well this cover version is not so exact to original album. I prefer Oldfield's real music rather than this... :D

...or maybe someone else may try listening my ZX Spectrum version!!!

[KaitainCPS]

Wow. This is, in essence, an early screensaver. But I think you had to pay CRL a tenner for it at the time.

The music reproduction is total guff considering what the C64 was capable of.

[buidseach]

Brilliant now try it on the spectrum lol

[rdisky40]

Well, there is a ZX Spectrum version too on YouTube. Try searching by "Tubular Bells ZX Spectrum" and you'll get it. ;)

The video was uploaded by someone else from my own program for ZX Spectrum 128k. Also look for "Ommadawn ZX Spectrum", also a program of mine.

8-bits sounds never bite the dust. :D

[McKottfars]

Was this played on an American C64?

[tomconte]

Yes, you are right, it was an NTSC machine. The tempo is too fast. But it was the only one I had with a decent SID chip :-) Now I have a PAL C64 with an R2 SID, I will try to post an update to the video so the tempo is correct!

[bkev93]

Any updates on that?

[deimos2k6]

@tomconte You mean NTSC had 6581 R1 SID chip?

[TheMJG1]

@tomconte Every C64 has a button on mainboard, which changes NTSC mode into PAL/SECAM.

[Simon0]

OMMADAWN!

[oeleboeb]

original but give me the original version