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Side by side comparisons! Via Youtube, alas, but: Acorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXthGJfHLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXthGJfHLc Amiga (emulat

Side by side comparisons! Via Youtube, alas, but: Acorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXthGJfHLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwXthGJfHLc Amiga (emulated): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT6vxY9p7yg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT6vxY9p7yg The Amiga's way brighter, but that's probably because it's emulated (and so is a digital recording). But it's pretty obvious that at least some of the tracks on the Arc are recompositions --- One Way Or Another is missing a lot of instruments, Mind the Step is a different pitch, Awesome is a different composition entirely... The Amiga had a hardware mixer with four channels (with fixed stereo positions). The Acorn had a more strictly powerful CPU but had no hardware mixer. Maybe they had to reduce the number of channels to allow for this? But I was pretty sure the Lemmings mods were classic 4-channel anyway (one channel per Amiga hardware channel).

Symbiote 10y ago
What struck me was the different instruments -- the Acorn instruments in the first track sound much more like a real xylophone and bass guitar. Or maybe it's meant to be a piano, but it's less synthy. I have early memories of my parents staying up all night playing Lemmings (on Acorn), and I played it a lot myself once I was old enough, so I'm probably in no position to judge.
zbuf 10y ago
I think the Archimedes did have 4 or 8 'native' channels for audio. From memory the MOD files included with Lemmings on the Archimedes were 3-channel, possibly leaving one free for sound effects. I wonder if it was disk space. Lemmings for Archimedes fitted on an 800K floppy; did the Amiga version span to two 720K floppies? Losing a load of samples would certainly be a way to drop the space requirements.
- ant512 10y ago
  The Amiga disk format held 880K. The original version of Lemmings was a 2 disk release with an animated intro, but later (cheaper or pack-in) versions shipped on 1 disk with the intro removed.

Symbiote 10y ago

What struck me was the different instruments -- the Acorn instruments in the first track sound much more like a real xylophone and bass guitar. Or maybe it's meant to be a piano, but it's less synthy. I have early memories of my parents staying up all night playing Lemmings (on Acorn), and I played it a lot myself once I was old enough, so I'm probably in no position to judge.

zbuf 10y ago

I think the Archimedes did have 4 or 8 'native' channels for audio. From memory the MOD files included with Lemmings on the Archimedes were 3-channel, possibly leaving one free for sound effects. I wonder if it was disk space. Lemmings for Archimedes fitted on an 800K floppy; did the Amiga version span to two 720K floppies? Losing a load of samples would certainly be a way to drop the space requirements.

ant512 10y ago
The Amiga disk format held 880K. The original version of Lemmings was a 2 disk release with an animated intro, but later (cheaper or pack-in) versions shipped on 1 disk with the intro removed.