Martin Galway
The Ocean Software composer who coaxed the SID chip into playing sampled sound it was never built to handle.
Martin Galway (b. 1966 in Belfast) wrote music for Ocean Software and made his name on Wizball (1987), Rambo, Arkanoid, Comic Bakery and Times of Lore. Where Rob Hubbard chiselled melodies, Galway pushed the chip toward sampling: he tricked the SID into playing short digitised drum hits, a stunt few thought possible.
After the C64 era he moved to the US and Origin Systems, doing audio for the Wing Commander series among others. Like Hubbard's, his C64 work is preserved in the HVSC. The two names are almost always mentioned in the same breath whenever the scene ranks the era's SID composers.