Fun Club legendary composer Tim Follin is currently dumping and releasing the development floppies used during his various projects in the 80s-early 90s

[Krvavi Abadas]

I was donated a box of 3" floppy disks by Tim Follin a couple of years ago that contained backups of the music he wrote in the late 80s and early 90s whilst working at Software Creations in Manchester (UK).

The music was hand-coded by Tim and Geoff Follin in assembler as a series of DEFB's, with that data containing note pitch and duration, and control data.

This data was then played by a small driver, also written in assembly language, in the games.

The assembler/editor was a custom application written by Mike Webb / Ste Ruddy and ran on a Tatung Einstein TC-01. The resultant source code was saved out on said 3" floppy disks.

(archive link)

for those unaware of his work, he was particularly infamous for going absolutely wild on obscure titles you wouldn't expect to have amazing music. such as Pictionary and Silver Surfer.
while still going hard on proper classics such as Plok and Solstice.

the hardware he used during this time period was the Tatung Einstein TC-01 as noted, which is how the disks were transferred over. though unfortunately a few sides of the disks seem to be corrupted, as well as a few of the non-corrupted disks contaning blank zero-byte files.

the person dumping them has also provided a more detailed explanation of Tim's work process of the time.

 

[zumaddy]

That's my GOAT

 

[Tangerine_Cookie]

Time for Plokposting:

 

[Mekanos]

That's my GOAT

 

[Mbolibombo]

That's cool!

Time for obligatory pictionary theme, it goes harder than should be allowed on a Pictionary Theme

 

[souio]

Almost gave me a heart attack! Saw "Legendary Composer Tim Folli" in the hot topics sections on the side of the board selection and expected the worst lol

 

[Koren Lesthe]

Almost gave me a heart attack! Saw "Legendary Composer Tim Folli" in the hot topics sections on the side of the board selection and expected the worst lol

Same here ^^, started gaming in 1988 so Tim Follin was clearly around back then.

 

[Krvavi Abadas]

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this is a completely seperate thing from the disks Follin has provided. Kevin Edwards has been frequently posting development info on various projects over the past few months. but has generally avoided providing full assets until now for legal reasons.

another post from him also reveals that Solstice was originally titled "Dark Child".