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by Alderem
Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:31 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: AGI, MT-32, and the Apple IIgs
Replies: 21
Views: 35725

AGI, MT-32, and the Apple IIgs

The Xeen Music YouTube channel has been uploading videos with music from classic game titles over the past 4 years. After focusing initially on the Might and Magic series (naturally), the channel has covered other New World Computing titles and expanded into other companies' titles as well. Xeen Mus...
by Alderem
Wed Mar 10, 2021 12:46 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Space Quest Collection
Replies: 5
Views: 11332

Re: Space Quest Collection

Good points bevil.

Another option is to use ScummVM, which makes configuration simple with a GUI, and it supports MT-32 emulation without requiring another program.
by Alderem
Sun Mar 07, 2021 12:40 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Space Quest Collection
Replies: 5
Views: 11332

Re: Space Quest Collection

The Space Quest Collection is a series of games produced over many years. Technology changed over that period and different games were composed on different playback chipsets/devices. None of them were originally designed for OPL3. The original Space Quest (1986) & Space Quest II (1987) were com...
by Alderem
Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:54 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New lossless FLAC recordings of MIDI soundtracks
Replies: 31
Views: 45569

Re: New lossless FLAC recordings of MIDI soundtracks

Thanks! It may yet be useful.

I’m currently on pause for doing more recordings, super busy.
by Alderem
Thu Oct 29, 2020 2:02 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: THREE new interviews with Ken Williams!
Replies: 2
Views: 9039

Re: THREE new interviews with Ken Williams!

Update: Vice.com has an article out today.

How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud

Ken has chimed in personally on this Reddit thread discussing the Vice article.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments ... a_massive/
by Alderem
Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:08 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Space Quest soundtracks... on vinyl?
Replies: 2
Views: 8546

Space Quest soundtracks... on vinyl?

Space Quest Historian has been doing vinyl records for Space Quest soundtracks, and is crowdfunding a rework of their Space Quest IV Remastered soundtrack.

https://qrates.com/projects/21261
by Alderem
Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:31 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: THREE new interviews with Ken Williams!
Replies: 2
Views: 9039

THREE new interviews with Ken Williams!

Ken Williams has a new book coming out ( Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings ) about Sierra On-Line, and he is making the interview circuit. Up first, Ken talks with DaveJustDave (Sep 3, 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdEYABhmVNo Second, Al's Geek Lab (Sep 15, 2020): https://www.youtube.c...
by Alderem
Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:41 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Quest Studios MIDI files
Replies: 18
Views: 25602

Re: Quest Studios MIDI files

All of the MIDI files from Quest Studios that I have (with some fill-ins courtesy of Spikey) are now posted at my website . This is 99.9% of the MIDI files that were on Tom's site in 2008, along with a few things he had posted previously but later taken down. Some details are yet to be filled in, I...
by Alderem
Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:31 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: SysEx to make selected QS tracks easier to play on MT-32
Replies: 3
Views: 9537

Re: SysEx to make selected QS tracks easier to play on MT-32

Alright, that makes sense.

I could never figure out why Tom tried to save 11kb of space by making a single file "work" for both GM and MT-32, and requiring special handling instructions for one or the other. :roll:
by Alderem
Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:04 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: SysEx to make selected QS tracks easier to play on MT-32
Replies: 3
Views: 9537

SysEx to make selected QS tracks easier to play on MT-32

In most cases, Tom provided System Exclusive messages for the MT-32 with his recordings. But there were exceptions with certain files that Tom listed as being playable on either General MIDI or MT-32. Here are some examples. The Colonel's Bequest | The Entertainer | cbgm200.mid This song is not desi...