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Jochen Hippel (born October 14, 1971) is a musician from Kirchheimbolanden in southwest Germany. Events 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill seven miles from Hastings, the forces Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a Kirchheimbolanden, the capital of Donnersbergkreis, is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, south-western Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. He played one of the most prominent roles in computer music during the 16-bit microcomputer era, composing the music for tens of games. Computer music is a term that was originally used within academia to describe a field of study relating to the applications of Computing technology in music composition microcomputer is a Computer with a Microprocessor as its Central processing unit. He was also an experienced Amiga programmer and ported many of Thalion Software's Atari ST titles. The Amiga is a family of Personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Thalion Software was a Computer game company during the time of the 16-Bit home computers like the Atari ST and The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s He no longer composes music for a living and in 2006 he was working in Logistics for Matheis+Koebig Baustoffe[1]

Jochen's first computer music was a set of Christmas songs that he arranged in a rock style on his school's Commodore 64. Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African A school (from Greek σχολεῖον - scholeion) is an Institution designed to allow and encourage Students (or "pupils"

As a member of The Exceptions, using the handle Mad Max, he wrote most of the music for their demos including the B. The Exceptions is the team name chosen by a group of home computer loving European teenagers who started writing their own demonstration computer programs for the Atari Mad Max is a 1979 Australian apocalyptic action thriller Film directed by George Miller and written DEMOS (meaning "Dialogovaya Edinaya Mobilnaya Operatsionnaya Sistema" (Диалоговая Единая Мобильная Операционная Система ДЕМОС I. G. Demo (Best In Galaxy). The demo was essentially a large collection of C64 tunes that The Exceptions ported across to the Atari ST's inferior Yamaha YM2149 sound chip using his own driver to get the most out of it. The Exceptions is the team name chosen by a group of home computer loving European teenagers who started writing their own demonstration computer programs for the Atari The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice Programmable Sound Generator (PSG designed by General Instrument, initially for use with their 16-bit CP1610 or one of the PIC1650 series A sound chip is an Integrated circuit (ie "chip" designed to produce Sound (see Chiptune) Jochen then had to fix all the music in order to get it to sound correct on the ST, the YM2149 has no resonance filter, no ADSR enveloping, no ring modulation. ADSR envelope is a component of many Synthesizers samplers and other Electronic musical instruments. Composers such as Rob Hubbard used a lot of special effects in his music which were difficult to replicate on the ST sound chip. Rob Hubbard (born 1956 Kingston upon Hull, England) is a music Composer best known for his composition of computer game theme music especially for microcomputers

Another note of interest is that the B. I. G. demo contained an additional demo screen entitled "The Digital Department" containing 6 digital versions of C64 music. The sound routine however used each channel of the YM2149 as a 4-bit DAC and played samples for each instrument. In Electronics, a digital-to-analog converter ( DAC or D-to-A) is a device for converting a digital (usually binary code to an Analog signal This is the first time ADSR samples are heard on the Atari ST, unfortunately only one more piece of music is ever written using this routine, albeit the 16 minute long Knuckle Busters tune by Rob Hubbard. ADSR envelope is a component of many Synthesizers samplers and other Electronic musical instruments. The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s Rob Hubbard (born 1956 Kingston upon Hull, England) is a music Composer best known for his composition of computer game theme music especially for microcomputers This appears as a guest screen in the Cuddly Demos (written by The Carebears) and was used to torment Richard Karsmakers of ST News who was promptly chained to a chair as the disk was formatted before his very eyes!


He worked as a freelance musician, doing music for many 16-bit games. A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer He eventually joined Thalion Software and wrote music for them. Thalion Software was a Computer game company during the time of the 16-Bit home computers like the Atari ST and His musical track for the game Amberstar is considered among his best works, and the game and Hippel's music acquired a cult following. Amberstar was the first installment in Thalion Software 's never-finished Amber Trilogy, a Computer role-playing game franchise. For in game music on the Amiga Jochen often stuck to chiptune-like sound - that became his trademark - instead of using more "realistic" instrument sounds that machine's support for digitized sound made possible. This was usually down to the lack of memory available. Title music for games where a different matter using real instruments and often contained sampled speech examples of which are Wings of Death and Lethal Xcess. Lethal Xcess has been developed in approximately 12 months by two members of the Atari ST demo crew X-Troll and published by Eclipse

He has released an album called Give it a Try and has composed music for other albums including tracks on Immortal 2 and Immortal 3[2].

A little known fact is that Hippel was also a good programmer, he created all of his own music tools and also ported most of Thalion's early Atari ST titles to the Commodore Amiga. The Amiga is a family of Personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Hippel also created the Amiga 7 voice replay routine which was used in several Thalion and Eclipse titles and later used by Chris Huelsbeck in his TFMX replay routine for the title music of Turrican 2 and Turrican 3 for which he wrote the in game loading music. Chris Hülsbeck (born March 2 1968) is a game music composer from Germany. Turrican is a 1990 Video game programmed by Manfred Trenz. It was first developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Mega Turrican is a 16-bit Shooter game, developed by Factor 5, and marketed in 1995 by Data East.

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Games without an explicit platform noted next to them indicate Jochen did both the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST versions. The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Last Ninja is an action-adventure computer game that was developed and published by System 3 in 1987 for the Commodore 64 The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s Cybernoid is a Shoot 'em up published in 1987 by Hewson Consultants for several home computer formats The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s Stormlord is a game developed by Hewson Consultants circa 1989 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s A Prehistoric Tale is a 1990 Computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST. Atomino is a 1990 Computer puzzle game originally for the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS. The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s Lethal Xcess has been developed in approximately 12 months by two members of the Atari ST demo crew X-Troll and published by Eclipse The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s Amberstar was the first installment in Thalion Software 's never-finished Amber Trilogy, a Computer role-playing game franchise. The Amiga is a family of Personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. The Atari ST is a home / Personal computer that was commercially available from 1985 to the early 1990s

Data Provided by Hall of Light, Atari Legend and Lemon Amiga games databases.

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OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is an Non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and tribute of Video game music
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