#huelsbeck
- Rainbow Arts group"The first big german games developer", which hired chris-huelsbeck on the phone after shades and had him in-house from February/March 1987: great-giana-sisters (label Time Warp), Katakis , R-Type , Turrican (sources: …
- Shades (Chris Hülsbeck, 1986) songchris-huelsbeck 's first published tune: written in February 1986 "from 8 PM to 4 AM" for 64er 's music competition, "merely aiming for top ten", and placed first, earning 1500 DM (source: s-vgmpf-chris-huelsbeck ) .
- Soundmonitor toolchris-huelsbeck 's music editor for the C64, written in the summer of 1986 as a front end for his Musicmaster play routine and published by 64er as a type-in "Listing des Monats" in issue 10/1986 — "the most popular …
- TFMX toolchris-huelsbeck 's second-generation driver, born on the C64 in the summer of 1988 and carried to the Amiga (and later DOS, SNES and the N64's MusyX): instead of only "the typical rigid instrument table" it runs "a …
- The Great Giana Sisters (C64, 1987/88) songrainbow-arts ' platform game (label Time Warp, released 1988-01) whose soundtrack made chris-huelsbeck 's name: seven songs and fifteen sound effects composed in soundmonitor and converted to his private The Final …
- 64'er 10/1986 — Musik wie noch nie: the Soundmonitor article and manual summaryThe article with which 64er published chris-huelsbeck 's soundmonitor as its "Listing des Monats" (listing of the month) in October 1986 — the editor that started the C64 tracker era and the first documentation of his …
- Chordian — SID Musicians (JCH's verdicts on the game composers, 2018) summarychordian — a coder-composer who wrote his own editor in the 1980s — rates the famous game composers "absolutely not overrated" or "indeed very overrated", judging instruments and player as much as tunes. Opinion, but …
- CSDb forum: Huelsbeck TFMX? (2006) summaryA short thread that settles what the scene knows about the C64 tfmx editor: nothing of it ever circulated.
- CSDb release pages: Soundmonitor V1.0 (1986) and Shades (1986) summaryThe database entries for the program and the tune, useful for downloads, dating and the scene's own view of them.
- Game Audio Network Guild — Interview with Chris Huelsbeck (2011) summaryA career-summary interview for the game-audio trade guild; little technique, but Hülsbeck's own one-sentence version of the Soundmonitor story and of his self-taught, tools-first approach.
- Remix64 — An Interview with Chris Huelsbeck (2001) summaryNeil Carr's 2001 interview with chris-huelsbeck for the remix community: why he started on the C64, what shades did for him, what he loves and dislikes about the sid , and how composing changed once real instruments …
- Retrogaming Planet / EmuWiki — Interview with Chris Huelsbeck (2011) summaryThe interview in which chris-huelsbeck describes his actual C64 workflow — two machines, soundmonitor then TFMX Editor, hex numbers shown as A-2 / G#3 — and the idea behind tfmx 's per-note script.
- VGMPF wiki: Chris Hülsbeck summaryThe most detailed dated timeline of chris-huelsbeck 's C64 years anywhere on the web — a fan wiki, so every date below is second-hand, but it cites the interviews it was built from (listed at the end of the raw page).
- Wikipedia (en): Chris Huelsbeck summaryTertiary, but with two things the wiki did not have: the citation trail (the 64'er contest was announced in issue 6/1986, p. 173) and a claim about who co-created TFMX.