Sereamis (A8)

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Sereamis
Sereamis - C64.jpg
Platform: Atari 8-bit
Year: 1985
Developer: Axis Komputerkunst

Sereamis is an illustrated text adventure. Sereamis, the young son of the caliph, encountered the beautiful princess Leilah, sadly imprisoned in the mighty Radakan's palace. After days brooding how to get the key to the harem and evade the guards, he disappeared, incognito, in order to free her.

Screenshots

Axis Intro - A8 - 01.png

35 seconds of Bach, unless you tapped the ESC key before!

Sereamis - A8 - Intro.png

Credits while loading.

Sereamis - A8 - 02.png

Caravan and story.

Sereamis - A8 - Start.png

Let's hear you type!

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Game over.

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Insert disk 2.

Music

Over the story, an oriental-influenced jazz standard from the 1930s loops, arranged by Frank Lepand, who also scored Mythos (A8) for Axis. He typed his arrangement like a program into an unidentified driver, which is also found in Der Ring der Nibelungen (A8), with uncredited arranger.

Recording

The music was recorded from the game in Altirra with PAL. Song 2 was played twice, 10 seconds longer, and faded out.

# Title ComposerArrangerProgrammer Length Listen Download
01 Axis Intro (Suite in G minor, BWV 995) Johann Sebastian BachUnknownUnknown 0:37
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02 Intro (Caravan) Juan Tizol and Duke EllingtonFrank LepandUnknown 3:07
Download

Credits

(Source for Lepand: Axis Intro. That credit does not apply to song 1, because exactly the same arrangement is also used in games that solely credit another arranger. It may have been Christoph Schulte-Vennbur, who programmed the Axis intro on Atari and C64 and had already studied guitar.)


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Format

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Audio Devices

Music plays on the computer's built-in POKEY chip. The keyboard click is triggered by the computer's BIOS and plays through the CTIA or GTIA chip.

An official NTSC release is not known.

Releases

  Germany.svg   Germany
Sereamis - C64.jpg
Title: Sereamis
Platform: ATARI 800 (48 K) / 800 XL / 130 XE
Released: 1985-??-??
Publisher: ariolasoft

Links

Sereamis
Sereamis Platform - A8.png • Platform - C64.png
Notable Songs Caravan
Notable Companies Axis Komputerkunst • Ariolasoft