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Caravan is a jazz standard. Hundreds of versions are recorded, some of which were further arranged for Sereamis, an illustrated text adventure on two 8-bit home computers.
Title
Caravan is printed on the record stickers from 1937.
Composition
The following phrases were arranged for video games:
- A swing intro and a melody composed by Tizol, recorded in December 1936 by Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters and published in April.
- An extra melody composed by Ellington, recorded in May by Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra and published in June.
On both recordings, Tizol played a trombone and Ellington the piano.
Games
Sereamis (A8)
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The bass plays on the POKEY chip's 4-bit noise, the rest on three square waves. One extra bar plays before loop.
For recording, Sereamis was launched in Altirra 4.40 with PAL.
Sereamis (C64)
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The melody plays on a square wave with vibrato and slow attack, the rest on two sawtooth waves routed through SID's unstable low-pass filter. For recording, Sereamis was launched:
- in VICE 3.10 with C64 PAL and a bias of -60, a bit below where Arenz' other music arguably sounds best.
It can be recorded for 8580 and other biases if found common and different enough.
