Atari MULE - Roy Glover (POKEY) - Oscilloscope View

Now landing on planet Irata
Been dying to do this one for forever now, huge shoutout to Vinscool for showing me that Altirra 3.9 allows disabling audio channels!
Too bad channel 4 seems to have some pops. I couldn't figure out how to remove those without distorting the sound. Oh well.
Atari 8-bit MULE theme by Roy Glover 1983

[@AiOinc1]

I want to do the DOS version of the game next. Any other suggestions for music to try and visualize? I'm all ears!

[@fatimamartins5925]

Make "Sample me again!" of Atari 2600

[@AiOinc1]

@@fatimamartins5925 I'll add it to the list

[@AiOinc1]

@Youssef Land I'll see about it. Doing POKEY on 2600 is really difficult

[@no_service429]

Good music!

[@AiOinc1]

Yep, Roy Glover sure knew how to compose for the PoKEY

[@DanRamosDR]

Seems to sound noisy (lots of crackling). I've got pretty much every Atari model of system and they don't sound like that. Hrmm

[@AiOinc1]

The crackling is coming from only channel 4 of the recording. No matter what settings I put it to, the emulator I used was consistently noisy from only channel 4.

[@DanRamosDR]

@@AiOinc1 Wait... Emulator? I have the game and genuine hardware. Let me know if you want me to provide a clean audio track for a re-upload (or, if I can run the oscilloscope software, I could try it).

[@AiOinc1]

@@DanRamosDR Yep this is on emulator. If you have a way to split all 4 channels on hardware do get a good recording and get in touch with me on Discord @VCSMaster#7466. This was the best I was able to get with the emulator.

[@NotJustVR]

Is it just me or does that sound like the song from the atari 8bit computer

[@AiOinc1]

That's probably because this is exactly what it is. Read the title

[@ccf_1004]

@@AiOinc1😂

[@sunscraper1]

​@@AiOinc1 I get the feeling this was satire

[@MAr10q]

dosent the atari have 2 sound channels?

[@AiOinc1]

The TIA has 2 channels. This is PoKEY, which has 4, hence the title.

[@MAr10q]

oh

[@MAr10q]

_i still dont get it_

[@MAr10q]

but ok i guess

[@CycloneJoey518]

​@@MAr10qthis is for the atari 8 bit computer not 2600 if thats where your getting confused

[@fatimamartins5925]

What is this Atari? looks to me like an Atari 800

[@AiOinc1]

Yes, it is the Atari 8-bit line of home computers. This is the Pokey chip.

[@fatimamartins5925]

@@AiOinc1 ohhhhh thanks

[@AiOinc1]

@@fatimamartins5925 No problem