David Warhol

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David Warhol
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Born July 15, 19??
Birth Place Manhattan Beach, CA
Nationality American   USA.svg
Aliases
  • Dave Warhol
  • Realtime Associates
Website rtassoc.com

Dave Warhol is a composer for video games of many platforms. He played low brass instruments when he was in school. He started working at Mattel Electronics as a audio engineer, game designer and programmer. After being a video game musician and audio engineer for some time, he decided he wanted to make his own company for video games founded Realtime Associates in 1986. Realtime still exists to this day and is still run by David Warhol.

Music Composition

GB

Warhol created a program that converted MIDI files to something that the GameBoy could read. According to one of the composer's at Realtime Associates, it was really touchy in that if a note overlapped another note a little bit in the MIDI file, the song wouldn't play back properly and instead hang on the said note.

NES

Warhol created a program that converted MIDI files to the NES. He would compose his MIDI files in Cakewalk and then use his program to convert said MIDIs to the NES. If another composer at Realtime Associates was behind the music, he would use the same procedure, except he would arrange the composers' MIDI files first before converting them.

Gameography


Released

Title

Sample

Unreleased Robocop Vs. The Terminator (NES)
1983/??/?? Thin Ice (INTV)
1984/??/?? Realm Of Impossibility EA
1984/??/?? Zombies (C64)
1985/??/?? Heart of Africa (C64)
1985/??/?? Racing Destruction Set (C64)
1985/??/?? Stuart Smith's Adventure Construction Set (AMI)
1985/??/?? Stuart Smith's Adventure Construction Set (C64)
1985/??/?? World Tour Golf (DOS) Music / Sound Programming
1986/??/?? Robot Rascals (APL2)
1986/??/?? Robot Rascals (C64)
1986/??/?? Tass Times in Tonetown (AMI)
1986/??/?? Tass Times in Tonetown (DOS)
1986/??/?? Thunder Castle (INTV)
1987/??/?? Commando (INTV)
1988/??/?? Pool of Radiance (C64)
1988/??/?? World Tour Golf (AMI) Sound Effects
1989/??/?? Curse of the Azure Bonds (APL2)
1989/??/?? Curse of the Azure Bonds (C64)
1989/??/?? Curse of the Azure Bonds (DOS)
1989/??/?? Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (AMI)
1989/??/?? Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (DOS)
1990/??/?? Champions of Krynn (APL2)
1990/??/?? LHX Attack Chopper (DOS)
1990/??/10 Maniac Mansion (NES)
1990/08/?? Dick Tracy (NES) Sound Driver
1990/08/?? Swords and Serpents (NES) Sound Driver
1990/08/?? Total Recall (NES)
1990/12/?? The Adventures of Rad Gravity (NES)
1991/01/?? Fun House (NES) Sound Driver
1991/05/?? The Rocketeer (NES) Sound Driver
1992/12/?? Caesar's Palace (NES) Sound Driver

Links

  • Official: [1]
  • Facebook: [2]
  • Twitter: [3]
  • Video Interview: [4]