The Chaos Engine theme

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2006-12-11 08:26pm

I was going to put this in AMP, but seen as this is to do with a computer game and hopefully a download, and this place is where old-school gamers are likely to go, I thought it might be prudent to ask here.

In 1993, the Bitmap Brothers released an awesome if extremely difficult game called The Chaos Engine, which was a victorian steampunk shooter game and pretty awesome. One of the coolest things about it was the soundtrack, it had a cool industrial midi in it that I'd like to find, download and then make an industrial/metal version of.

Any ideas on where to get it? This is a really old school game so I'm at a bit of a loss.

Robin · Post by **Robin** » 2006-12-12 05:24am

The song is called chaoseng.mod, which, with some sleuthing, I'm sure you'll be able to find. However, you will need a program capable of playing .mod files, I think DeliPlayer can do this "out of the box".

Was a rather awesome game I seem to remember.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2006-12-12 05:55am

Heh, i remember me and my brother devoting an afternoon to beating that game, Navvy and Thug combo FTW.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-12-12 06:17am

Chaos Engine was pretty awesome, but I remember one of the versions being better than the others. Was there an Amiga version?

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2006-12-12 06:21am

Stark wrote:Chaos Engine was pretty awesome, but I remember one of the versions being better than the others. Was there an Amiga version?

There was. My inner Amigan tells me it's the better one, but I never did get around to trying any other one...

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-12-12 06:24am

Yeah, when I think 'better version of 90s shooter' I always thing 'I bet it was the Amiga version'.

They even had Strider on Amiga for chrissakes.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2006-12-12 06:43am

Stark wrote:Yeah, when I think 'better version of 90s shooter' I always thing 'I bet it was the Amiga version'. They even had Strider on Amiga for chrissakes.

Hm. Only thing I could find on Youtube was the Atari version, apparently. Now this may be my rose-tinted glasses in action, but the sound effects and music seem painfully bad in comparison with "the real thing"...

EDIT: Linketh

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2006-12-12 06:49am

There most certainly was an Amiga version, that's the version me and my bro played (because the only computer we had was an Amiga 500)

Karza · Post by **Karza** » 2006-12-12 07:59am

Eleas wrote:Hm. Only thing I could find on Youtube was the Atari version, apparently. Now this may be my rose-tinted glasses in action, but the sound effects and music seem painfully bad in comparison with "the real thing"...

EDIT: Linketh

Whatever the linked one is, its sound and graphics beat the living shit out of the PC version that I had to dig up again after seeing this thread. The damn music hurts my ears.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2006-12-12 10:21am

Robin wrote:The song is called chaoseng.mod, which, with some sleuthing, I'm sure you'll be able to find. However, you will need a program capable of playing .mod files, I think DeliPlayer can do this "out of the box".

Was a rather awesome game I seem to remember.

Winamp can play it, thanks a hell of a lot!

Oh and yeah, the Amiga version was better.

The Mega Drive version was alright, but it wasn't as much of a joy to play.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2006-12-12 10:52am

Rye wrote: Winamp can play it, thanks a hell of a lot!

Occasionally, Winamp fucks up the mod format. Modplug has always worked for me though, and can also play both xm, s3m and mdz (which equals zipped mod files).

Rye wrote:Oh and yeah, the Amiga version was better. The Mega Drive version was alright, but it wasn't as much of a joy to play.

I loved Chaos Engine on my Amiga, but I never really got why Bitmap Brothers were considered so awesome for their time. I was certainly quite unimpressed by Gods, Xenon was so-so, and Speedball 2, while fun, had few innovative aspects.

Now, Psygnosis and Delphine I get -- they at least tried to do something different once or twice.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2006-12-12 12:53pm

Eleas wrote: I loved Chaos Engine on my Amiga, but I never really got why Bitmap Brothers were considered so awesome for their time. I was certainly quite unimpressed by Gods, Xenon was so-so, and Speedball 2, while fun, had few innovative aspects.

Now, Psygnosis and Delphine I get -- they at least tried to do something different once or twice.

On the Amiga Speeball 2 was god.

Which made it all the more dissapointing when i downloaded a PC version from an abandonware site and found the (unchangeable) control scheme was totally shit.

Damn this thread might as well be called Nostalgia Incarnate.