Alternative version of Galway's Arkanoid to premiere on BBB

An alternative version of the Arkanoid theme with improved digi drums will premiere on the BBB show at SLAY Radio tonight.

After the release of Arkanoid, Martin Galway enhanced the SID tune with better drum samples (later to be used in Game Over). With the game already out, there were no release channels, and so this version was lost. Martin Galway kindly gave permission for the Project: Galway team to lend his original source code to Jan Harries and Inge Pedersen of HVSC, and Inge brilliantly managed to write a cross-translation tool for the sources, which resulted in a playable SID file: something Boz originally did in PHP for the original Project Galway, resulting in the first release of the legendary Street Hawk.

From Inge: I've coded a little program that converts Martin's source code files into a KickAssembler-friendly file. I have to do some manual work afterwards to make the code tidy, and straighten out the few things the converter doesn't, but it saves me a lot of work. The sid-file included is made 100% with KickAssembler from the original sources.

Martin Galway commented on the result: The filter emulation isn't exact, but I assume you know that already. Otherwise it's spot on, warts and all.

Inge's next project? I'm intending to do what very few persons (none at all?) has done before - make a tune in Martin's player….😉