Amazing Grace

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Amazing Grace
Composer Traditional
Released 1779-??-??
Title Origin Official

Amazing Grace is a Christian hymn published in 1779.

Games

Amazing Maze (C64)

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Amazing Maze (C64)
Output - SID.svg
Arranger Unknown
Released 1983-??-??
Format SID
Loops Yes

Arranged in G on one triangle wave. Sounds the same on every SID chip and is track 3 in the rip.

Crystals of Zong (C64)

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Crystals of Zong (C64)
Output - SID.svg
Arranger Unknown (game programmer Sean McKinnon?)
Released 1983-??-??
Format SID
Loops No

Arranged in F on one triangle wave. Sounds the same on every SID chip and is track 1 in the rip.

Drum Blaster (DOS)

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Drum Blaster (DOS)
Output - OPL2.svg
Drum Blaster - DOS - CMF Music Menu.png
Arranger Dan Froelich
Released 1992-??-??
Length 2:25.40
BPM 140
Format CMF
Loops No

This song came with Version 3.0 only. The filename is AMAZING.CMF and the HELPME.DOC describes it as "Dan's transcription of Amazing Grace".

The file is identical to the one in Onesimus: A Quest for Freedom (DOS), which it was likely made for in the first place, as the HELPME.DOC describes it as "taken from the sound track of Jill of the Jungle".

Onesimus: A Quest for Freedom (DOS)

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Onesimus: A Quest for Freedom (DOS)
Output - OPL2.svg
Onesimus - DOS - Level 20 House Of Paul.png
Arranger Dan Froelich
Released 1992-??-??
Length 2:25.40
BPM 140
Format CMF
Loops Yes

This is the only track which was not derived from any of the Jill of the Jungle series music. It is likely that AdLib Visual Composer was the tool to compose and later to convert it to CMF via ROL to CMF just the same way as all other Jill tracks were done.

The song plays when you reach the final level, "House of Paul" (level 30).

The file in the game folder is named SONG15.ARK.

Wild 9 (PS1)

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Wild 9 (PS1)
Output - PCM.svg
Arranger Tommy Tallarico Studios
Released 1998-09-30
Length 0:59
Format CD
Loops No

Arranged in scottish style. Played in game over screen.


Methodist (C64)

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Methodist (C64)
Output - SID.svg
Arranger Sebastian Begaße
Programmer Mihály Horváth
Released 2019-12-14
Length 0:36.63
BPM 84
Format SID
Loops Yes

Arranged in G using SID-Wizard 1.8.

It sounds different on every SID chip because it uses unstable features: a combined triangle and pulse wave on the bass and melody, and a low-pass filter on the harmony. According to HVSC, it should be recorded with C64C PAL. In the rip, it is track 22.

Timo's Castle (C64)

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Timo's Castle (C64)
Output - SID.svg
Arranger Benjamin Dibbert
Programmer Lasse Öörni
Released 2024-05-01
Length 1:10.76
BPM 63
Format SID
Loops Yes, at 0:25.04

Arranged using GoatTracker in D♯ for bagpipe, where the drone is emulated by two 13% pulse waves, and the chanter by a 6% one. At 0:25.04, the drone is replaced with a bass, the higher octave of which goes through the SID chip's unstable low-pass filter. According to HVSC, it should be recorded with C64C PAL. In the rip, it is track 14.

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