A full, 12-hour, day of work on the Amiga videos. First, rendering each in Argus. Each of the 38 videos took about 7 minutes. Then, converting those into 8000kbps videos for YouTube (Argus saves out only in images, a string of jpg files).
At this point I decided to file all of the tracks as an album, 'The Scorpius Games'. This makes sense as it's all music, and a complete collection of 38 tunes, neatly organised chronologically. Of course, this meant (and means, the process is not complete) more filing work, proper titles for everything (this helped unify the style), and assigning ISRC codes. I'll not release the album in any commercial way, not in the foreseeable future at least, but it's nice to have this large collection of music filed correctly.
Then, uploading each to YouTube, and checking the text and subtitles. Then filing the Argus files, and building 3000kbps videos for archiving. Each of these processes took a few minutes, so there was hardly any time to stop or pause.
The first video will become public on 21st January 2027. Music from each game will appear in chronological order, with new a game featured every Thursday and Monday at 18:00 GMT; thus music from the last of the 20 games, Blade, will appear on Monday the 29th of March.
Of course, at all times my thoughts are with my father. My mother has already started to throw away his things. My brother will visit here tomorrow.
