. - * Ad Infinitum * - .
                       

Welcome to the second of the last two of my mods ever to be released in the
UK. I happen to be emigrating to New Zealand very shortly after my exams
are finally over. This year has been a very trying year for me and I've had
no chance to do the number of tunes I intended to do.

I had aimed to do a few remixes of well known C64 tunes and famous heavy
metal groups. So much for that!

"Ad Infinitum" is a short mod which I composed after seriously looking into
how the C64 used to produce its sounds. My main addiction here was the use
of pulse width modulation in order to generate those fuzzy sounds. The
quality isn't to the standard at which I'd like -so Ray and Teijo, take 
note -I suggest you increase the number of words you allow per OctaMED
synth waveform. Your current number is insufficient ans a serious drawback.
I did actually produce better quality synthetic sounds myself using a small
program to generate the progressive waveform and save it as a sample. But
I haven't used these samples in this mod. as it would be have been defeating
my objective -to write a chip tune using OctaMED. Task accomplished! :-)

Anyway folks, bye-bye goes my Internet connection so that'll be the end of
my mods for a long time. I'll be separated from my Amiga for up to 12 weeks
anyway, so no more mods! :-( Maybe just as well! :-)

Okay then, time to say goodbye to everyone I've met over the past three
years and of course thank you to everyone who has encouraged me with my
music since I began.

I would like to thank the following people for their support and interest:

Chris:

     Your feedback has always been useful even though I don't like that
     crap you listen to!
     
     
Ssilk:

     The question always remains -would I have continued without yourself
     taking an interest? Probably not, I was ready to give up after
     "White Night" back in 1992. Thanks for staying in touch. :-)
     
Nick "Gimme Modz" (aka Gruel):

     Here's my chipmod which I mentioned to you.
          
Ray Burt-Frost:

     Many thanks for the OctaMED support, Ray. The manual has been
     invaluable for my last two mods. You should still receive mods from
     me in the future; I hope you will be able to maintain my Aminet
     uploads. BTW, I've enjoyed our little chats. Your interest has been
     much appreciated. I also hope that this mod in particular will be of
     benefit to other musicians in the MUG. There seems to be a serious
     lack of nice chip-tunes produced with MED, so I hope this will
     encourage others to have a go.
     
Peter Kunath:

     Thanks for the information regarding alternative chip-tune editors.
     I have still to produce something decent with that editor you sent me
     via post, but you'll receive the results when they appear. And to
     other people reading this, DeliTracker is an excellent all purpose
     mod-player -I strongly recommed you register for this program unless
     you prefer to use the individual editors like myself.
     
Chainsaw Baron:

     What can I say? :-) Thanks for uploading this tune. Our tastes in
     music are different but they seem to have the same foundations! I
     hope you like this tune anyway, you've an idea of what I've been
     putting up with lately and getting this tune out of the way has not
     been easy. Thanks. I hope you'll appreciate the nostalgic sounds
     in this short mod!


As for the usual rubbish I stick in these .readme's, well there aren't
going to be any addresses for you all to get in touch with me as I'll
be long gone from the UK by August 1995. If there are any of you out there
who wish to contact me via email, you can do so if you're quick:

P.D.Spark@durham.ac.uk

Also, I don't care what any of you do with this tune as long as it retains
its source of origin. Most of all, spread it as best you can with all the
rest of my mods.

Bye folks!

Sparky.


PS. For those of you who are new to the mods scene, I suggest you take a
look at mods by:

Jogeir Liljedahl
Lizardking
Moby