MOTION IS BACK WITH SOME HEAVY % C64 % NOSTALGIA!  THIS TIME IT'S A REWORK OF THE 'WE MUSIC 1986' DEMO BY BEN DAGLISH THAT WAS DISTRIBUTED ON COMPUNET.  CODE AND GRAPHICS BY MOTION  ALL MUSIC BY THE LATE BEN DAGLISH.  A HUGE THANKS TO GALAHAD OF SCOOPEX FOR MAKING ME AWARE OF THE HACKED VERSION OF PLAYSID LIBRARY THAT IS COMPATIBLE WITH KICKSTART 1.X SYSTEMS.  IN A MOMENT I'LL HAND OVER THE KEYS TO JUDGE DROKK, AS HE HAS A FEW NOSTALGIC MEMORIES TO SHARE WITH YOU.  BEFORE THAT, JUST A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE ORIGINAL 'WE MUSIC DEMO'.  CLEARLY IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THIS, IT WAS JUST A TEXT SCREEN SELECTOR.  THE TRACK NAMES WERE A LITTLE VAGUE, SO I'VE UPDATED THOSE AND CHANGED THE TEXT FORMATTING.  SEEING AS I WAS GOING TO RE-MAKE IT, I THOUGHT WHY NOT ADD SOME VISUAL INTEREST ALONG THE WAY?  THE MOVING OBJECTS ABOVE ARE SPRITES, TWO SPRITES TO BE EXACT, BUT DUE TO THE AMIGA'S AMAZING HARDWARE CAPABILITIES, YOU CAN RE-USE THEM VERTICALLY AND NOT EVEN WORRY ABOUT UPDATING ANY COPPER LIST POINTERS.  AT THE TIME OF CODING, I WAS THINKING OF THE C64 DEMO, 'DNA' BY JEFF 'YAK' MINTER.  THAT HAS WAY MORE SPRITES ON-SCREEN (48 IN THE DNA CHAIN), WHILST I ONLY HAVE 22 SWINGING ABOUT.  THAT'S QUITE ENOUGH OF THAT, TIME TO HAND OVER THE KEYS TO JUDGE DROKK.....  THANKS MOTION!  I HAVE SUCH FOND MEMORIES OF BEN DAGLISH.  FIRSTLY, UNLIKE MOST 'NAMES' ASSOCIATED WITH THE GAMES INDUSTRY, HE WASN'T FAR AWAY, A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH THAN MYSELF, ALONG WITH HIS FRIEND AND CO-CONSPIRATOR, TONY 'RATT' CROWTHER.  THEY WERE BOTH FROM AND IN SHEFFIELD, AT LEAST WHEN I HAD A C64.  HIS TUNE FOR TONY'S GAME 'LOCO' WAS PURE GOLD AND HIS WAS PERHAPS ONE OF, IF NOT THE FIRST NAMES I ASSOCIATED WITH MUSIC ON THE C64.  IT DIDN'T HURT THAT I WAS GOING THROUGH A 'JEAN MICHEL JARRE' PHASE, SO HEARING THE '64 PERFORM PART OF JARRE'S EQUINOX SUITE WAS A BLAST!  A LITTLE LATER, WHEN ART AND MUSIC CREATED FOR COMPUNET CAME MY WAY ON SHARED CASSETTES, BEN'S NAME WAS OFTEN ONE THAT GAVE THE MOST PLEASURE, ALONG WITH POP-CHART INSPIRED TUNES BY THE MIGHTY BOGG.  IT WAS SUCH A THRILL TO GET HOLD OF SOFTWARE THAT CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE NORMAL ECO-SYSTEM OF THE HIGH-STREET COMPUTER STORE.  BEN WAS A TREASURE AND A ROUGH DIAMOND. MANY YEARS LATER, AROUND 2017, I WAS ASKED IF I COULD HELP WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH BEN, FOR A RETRO GAME WEBSITE, WHICH OF COURSE I DID WITH PLEASURE.  PREVIOUS ASSISTANCE WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH MR CROWTHER (FOR THE SAME SITE) HAD BEEN A SUCCESS A FEW MONTHS EARLIER.  I LEARNED AFTER THE INTERVIEW WAS COMPLETE THAT BEN WAS ILL, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW AT THE TIME HOW SEVERE HIS CONDITION WAS. BEN'S PASSING WAS SUCH A SAD LOSS TO HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS AND THE FANS OF HIS MUSIC.  BEN WAS TO HAVE BEEN THE COMPARE AT THE GLITTERING, '8 BIT SYMPHONY' IN HULL, ENGLAND, WHERE A NUMBER OF HIS, ROB HUBBARD'S AND OTHER MUSICIANS WORK, WAS PERFORMED BY THE HULL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.  MY SEAT WAS THE VERY NEXT SEAT TO BEN'S FAMILY AND KIDS.  A NIGHT TO REMEMBER.  BACK TO YOU, MOTION.....  WHY THANK YOU, MR. DROKK!  IT'S LATE, I NEED A HOT BREW, SO JUST A FEW HELLO'S TO ASLE, DEPECHE, GALAHAD, GRIP, PAV AND BOONY, SIDWAVE, AND STINGRAY!  SO, WHAT'S LEFT TO SAY?  AH YES!  LOOK OUT FOR A FEW MORE RELEASES FEATURING JUDGE DROKK AND MYSELF.  YOU CAN EXPECT TO SEE THOSE IN DECEMBER, SO NOT LONG NOW.  TOODLE PIP! ...IT'S A WRAP (DO YOU WANT SAUCE WITH THAT?).