A few times I've been asked questions about the music, so here's some detailed technical information:
- music lasts 5 minutes and 23.2 seconds;
- the original data is 48000 Hz, 16 bit, stereo;
- the original data has been downsampled to 29073 Hz, 8 bit, stereo;
- the resulting data amounts to (5 * 60 + 23.2) * 29073 * 2 = 18792788 bytes;
- the resulting data has been compressed with a custom lossless method (Huffman-based) that brings it to 10902907 bytes (5479759 left + 5520940 right);
- the compressed data is decompressed in real time by an algorithm written specifically for an unexpanded A1200 (originally for SkillGrid);
- every frame, the algorithm decompresses just slightly more than the amount of data strictly needed (so, after a bunch of frames, the internal buffers are full and the decompression stops for a frame);
- on a 68030-equipped Amiga, decompressing takes about 42 rasterlines, i.e. about 14% of a frame time.
The close-to-the-original version can be listened to from SoundCloud: