Tube Madness (C64)
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Tube Madness is a Pipe Mania clone. It was developed in 1990 by Digital Excess and sold to Double Density, an employee of CP Verlag who published Game On magazine.
Unlike the original, you need a bomb to replace a pipe, and your cursor vanishes when time is out. Occasionally, a "special thing" appears and may affect your score or laid pipes.
Contents
Screenshots
Music
Hartwig edited one of his RoMuzak V6.3 files from Digital Excess's first game, Double Sphere (C64), so three tracks had already been out for five months (with minor differences), whereas the Tube Madness main theme and game-over jingle are all-new.
Tracks 2–4 suffer under RoMuzak's most common bug, namely the first note sometimes being muted. This has not been ripped or recorded. Also, the game does not let tracks 1 and 4 finish, so the game has been modded for recording.
Recording
The music was recorded from the game:
- in VICE 3.10 with C64 PAL and a bias of 60.
Recordings for 8580 or other biases can be made. Each song was played once or twice depending on length, plus 10 seconds for fade-out.
| # | Title | Composer | Length | Listen | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Intro | Stefan Hartwig | 3:59 | Download | |
| 102 | Theme | Stefan Hartwig | 3:06 | Download | |
| 103 | Next Level | Stefan Hartwig | 0:01 | Download | |
| 104 | Game Over | Stefan Hartwig | 0:03 | Download | |
| 105 | Unused | Stefan Hartwig | 2:33 | Download |
Credits
- Ripper: High Voltage SID Collection
- Recorder: Professor Chaos
- Game Credits:
- All Programming and Sound FX By: Thomas Koncina
- Music By: Stefan Hartwig
- ** RoMuzak V6.3 <W> by Oliver Blasnik, <C> Digital Marketing!! [...]!! **
- Not Credited Programmer (Sound FX): Charles Deenen
(Sources: intro pages 6–7 and 10–11, RAM, code comparison.)
Game Rip
Audio Devices
Music and sound effects play on the computer's built-in SID chip. Three of the instruments sound different on every 6581 because they use SID's unstable low-pass filter.
An official NTSC release is unlikely.
Releases
Although issue 7/91 was announced for 1991-06-21, three groups stated spreading its three games up to two days earlier.
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