Games FX or music question

[Paulie85]

I downloaded some Amiga games I hadn't played for years and I was reminded of one of my pet peeves. Some games(e.g. Leander,Chuck Rock, Elvira Arcade...) make you choose between sound fx and music which really takes away from the gaming experience.  If games such as Beast and Turrican can have both whilst being impressive graphically why can't these others as well? Is it just lazy programming?

PS Why don't more games make use of EHB mode as it double the amount of colours?

[Paulie85]

Making music with only 4 channels is damned hard. Making it with just 3 is even harder.

Thanks Piru, so it is down to the skill of the musician.

[Paulie85]

I'd say one of the reasons a lot of old games let you choose between Sound FX or Music is because they were designed for 512kb A500 systems which wouldn't have enough memory to hold all the samples for the game and the music as well.

Yeah, I was thinking memory may be an issue, that's why I was a little disappointed when Leander said "Extra memory detected and used" but still made me choose between fx and music.
Also on the ehb palette, I found that if you made your first 32 really bright the last 32 were more useful rather than being relegated to shadow colours.