He played one of the most prominent roles in computer music during the 16-bit microcomputer era, composing hundreds of tunes for games and demos.
[1] The demo was essentially a large collection of C64 tunes that was ported across to the Atari ST's Yamaha YM2149 sound chip using Jochen's own driver to get the most out of it.
This appears as a guest screen in the Cuddly Demos (written by The Carebears) and was used to torment Richard Karsmakers of ST News who was promptly chained to a chair as the disk was formatted before his very eyes!
Hippel was also a programmer, he created all of his own music tools and also ported most of Thalion's early Atari ST titles to the Amiga.
[citation needed] Data provided by Hall of Light,[4] Atari Legend,[5] Atarimania[6] and Lemon Amiga games databases.