STay4Evr!
July 07, 2024
A stupid idea worked out well and quickly got out of hand, crazy enough to make it into a demo. We are happy to present STay4Evr! This is our biggest release since ...do things. in 1999!
5 demo screens, 109 tracks, 6 hours, 58 minutes of music and a very unusual interactive main menu beaming you directly into the year 1985/1986. You won't believe your eyes and especially not your ears. Think twice before you enter. Once you are inside, you are trapped in a small ugly brown box with no way out ...
Face it ... You have to STay4Evr!
YM2149 based SID Emulation
STay4Evr honours the early days and the roots of chipmusic showing an emulation of the C64 SID on a YM2149 soundchip using nothing but modern timer techniques! No lazy DMA based waveform calculations are performed. This is real chipmusic revealing classic tones not expected to be heard from the YM2149 soundchip. Presented in three demoscreens with a powerful playlist mode it can run all day.
Fully functional C64 Basic
The main menu is a fully functional C64 Basic with the ability to load the individual demo screens. It is not just emulated, in fact it is running in 68k, which means the original roms have been reassembled and transpiled to 68k code. Due to using plain 68k code and leaving off a 6502 emulation it is running faster than a C64.
The G.O.A.T. Demo
This demoscreen is showing the YM2149 playing the old Rob Hubbard songs using the new techniques. Visually inspired by a classic space game, the selection of the songs inevitably reminds of the "B.I.G. Demo". To remember that demo and to honour the author of these great songs it had to be the "G.O.A.T Demo".
Under the Waves
This beautiful one honours another outstanding composer from the early C64 soundchip era. One might recognise a visual reference here and there, but at least the sounds reveal the author. Martin Galway, with his very unique style leaves his remarkable footprint in the history of chipmusic.
Guardians of Mana
The third demoscreen collects various songs from the early era and brings us the magic of classic chipmusic embedded in its very own visual appearance remembering the classic C64 intro. And when we listen to the opening song, we will remember the gifted Ben Daglish and his outstanding talent, may he rest in peace.
And there is more. Just explore the package.
