Remix64
Charity Tribute Album - Macmillan Nurses
The most substantial community tribute to Richard Joseph was the charity album organised by Remix64 - the definitive community website for C64 and Amiga game music remixes. Released following his death in 2007, the album presents reinterpretations of Richard Joseph's compositions by remix artists from across the retro music community.
Proceeds from the album were donated to Macmillan Nurses, the UK cancer nursing charity that supports patients and their families through serious illness. The choice of beneficiary was personal and meaningful: Richard Joseph died after a long illness, and the tribute directed its resources toward the kind of care his own family would have understood.
The album's track listing draws from across Richard Joseph's career: C64 SID compositions from the Palace Software era, Amiga tracker music from the Bitmap Brothers titles, and the Cannon Fodder themes. The remixes range in approach from orchestral arrangements to electronic reinterpretations, but what unites them is the respect in which the source material is held.
Find the tribute album at: Remix64.com
Video Tributes
YouTube Community
The YouTube game music community has produced tribute videos and longplay recordings that showcase Richard Joseph's work in its original context - gameplay footage with his compositions heard as they were intended, within the games themselves.
Particularly notable are longplay recordings of:
- Cannon Fodder (Amiga) - including the full "War!" opening sequence
- Gods (Amiga) - demonstrating the Nation XII interactive music system
- Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (Amiga) - Richard Joseph's audio direction
- The Chaos Engine (Amiga) - interactive music adaptive to gameplay
- Barbarian (C64) - original SID score in context
These recordings preserve the full audiovisual experience in a way that music archive alone cannot. Searching YouTube for each game title plus "Amiga longplay" or "C64 longplay" will locate the most complete recordings.
Memorial Threads
Lemon Amiga · English Amiga Board · Atari Forum
Following Richard Joseph's death on 4 March 2007, memorial threads appeared across the retro game community forums. These threads remain accessible and constitute a valuable primary record of how his contemporaries and fans responded to the news.
Lemon Amiga
Community Forum
The Lemon Amiga forum community - dedicated Amiga enthusiasts and players - opened a memorial thread in March 2007. Contributors include longtime Amiga users who grew up with the Bitmap Brothers and Sensible Software titles and the music that accompanied them.
English Amiga Board (EAB)
Community Forum
The English Amiga Board is the longest-running Amiga community forum and the most technically focused. Its memorial thread attracted contributions from developers and composers who knew Richard Joseph professionally, providing firsthand testimony about his working methods and character.
Atari Forum
Community Forum
Richard Joseph's Atari ST work - particularly the Bitmap Brothers' titles which appeared on ST as well as Amiga - means his loss was felt in the Atari community too. The Atari Forum community marked his death with its own thread.
Search for "Richard Joseph" at the Atari Forum.
OC ReMix
Commemorative Archive Entry
OverClocked ReMix (OCReMix) is the premier game music remix community and archive. A commemorative entry for Richard Joseph is documented in their archive - a formal recognition from the community most dedicated to preserving and celebrating game music as an art form.
The presence of Richard Joseph's work in the OCReMix archive is significant: it places him among the composers whose work is considered worthy of active creative engagement, not merely historical preservation. The remix community treats the originals as material worth continuing to work with.
BAFTA
In Memoriam
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) acknowledged Richard Joseph's contribution to game audio posthumously. This recognition from the primary British arts institution reflects the scope of his impact: he was not merely a contributor to a specialist field, but someone whose work had reached a level of cultural significance that warranted formal institutional recognition.
BAFTA's games awards and memorial acknowledgements are documented at bafta.org.