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6. Appendix
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APPENDIX I
”The Golden Days of Computer Game
Music”
Rob Hubbard
Transkription av keynote speech vid Assembly ’02 Game Development Seminars i
Helsingfors 2002, videofil i författarens ägo. Inom [] fetstil hittas tidsangivelser för att
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presentationssituationen, t ex skratt eller gestikulation, men också mina kommentarer
[00:00]…. any difficulty understanding what I’m talking about, or wants me to talk a little bit
slower, or can’t understand my accent, because it’s maybe a little bit strange, then just shout
up and I’ll try to speak a little bit more clearly, or speak a little bit more slowly so that you
can understand what I’m talking about. The title of this session is “The Golden Days of
Computer Game Music”, so, I thought I would maybe go right back to how things all started
for me, back in the days of, just about 20 years ago, or something like that, and go through a
little bit about how I got started and what used to happen in the early days. [-00:57] [00:59-]
First of all, my background was always as a musician and back in 1980 I had a house, I had
various keyboards and synths and drum machines, and things like that. I was working as a
musician in those days, and I was also very interested in the electronics as well. I used to buy
a lot of the electronics magazines and build those little kits, and little projects that they had in
those magazines. [-01:43] [01:45-] [A]round about that time they were talking a lot about
computers and programming and how that was really gonna affect what was gonna be
happening in the music business. They had little articles in the magazines about programming.
Most of it was Basic or Four [Basic Four], or something like that, and I used to read those
things. In Basic they hade things like:“Let a=a=b” and that was something that was just
completely foreign to somebody who didn’t know anything about Basic. [-02:26] [02:30-] So,
I was very interested in Basic and computers at that time, because I just couldn’t figure out
what on earth “a=a=b” meant. It was just bizarre to me: “What the hell are these people
talking about.” [-02:46] [02:52-] I was looking around at computers in 1982, or whatever it
was, and there were various things like the Memotech. Then there was the early Sinclair Kit
machines, which was the touch panel type of machine, which you could buy as a kit. The VIC
20 was out, and, then there was a new machine that was called the C 64, which just came out,
and that had a much better sound chip. Since I was interested in music, and this thing was
advertised on the TV (the advert that they used to have at that time featured an elephant
because the C 64 had 64 k of memory and so the adverts at the time used to say “This has got
64 k of memory, it’s like an elephant. Nobody will ever fill this memory because it got so
much!”), I thought “Well, that’s good enough for me, you know.”[-03:57] So, I bought a C 64
and then I switched it on and nothing happened. Then I typed in a program from…The early
book that you used to get with the C 64 had so many mistakes in it! [skratt] If any of you ever
got one of those original books. It was just so frustrating because you would type in
something from that book and nothing would ever work, but, basically, it did enough to spark
my interest. I was determined that this stupid little box was not make me look like a complete
idiot [-04:40] after I would type something in and nothing would happen. [-04:43] It was just,
it was one of those challenges where I was determined not to be beaten down by a stupid little