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by Alderem
Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:12 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Physical Quest Studios CDs and lossless digital preservation
Replies: 39
Views: 72192

Re: Physical Quest Studios CDs and digital preservation

It's so good to see some familiar faces come out of the woodwork!

And yes, the goal of this mini-project is to provide lossless files. Everything is being encoded in FLAC.
by Alderem
Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Physical Quest Studios CDs and lossless digital preservation
Replies: 39
Views: 72192

Re: Physical Quest Studios CDs and digital preservation

I got a working drive and filled in the gaps in the files goatmeal1 sent to Andrew.
by Alderem
Sat Jan 11, 2020 6:25 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Physical Quest Studios CDs and lossless digital preservation
Replies: 39
Views: 72192

Re: Physical Quest Studios CDs and digital preservation

My ripping work is still suspended due to not having an operational drive, but goatmeal and I are scheming behind the scenes with Andrew to get lossless copies of Tom's work into his hands.
by Alderem
Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:21 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Physical Quest Studios CDs and lossless digital preservation
Replies: 39
Views: 72192

Re: Physical Quest Studios CDs and digital preservation

Hey folks, It's great to have some collaboration on this. :) There haven't been any updates from me in a while because while ripping these discs, my disc drive died, so I need to replace it. Until I find time to research that and get a new one, I'm on pause. I'll update when I'm able to resume. For ...
by Alderem
Sat Nov 30, 2019 1:57 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Physical Quest Studios CDs and lossless digital preservation
Replies: 39
Views: 72192

Physical Quest Studios CDs and lossless digital preservation

Back in the day, when Tom Lewandowski produced recordings of Sierra soundtracks and posted them at his website (now archived here), Tom also produced a limited number of physical CDs that he mailed to Quest Studios forum participants for a nominal cost. I have a set of these discs. Unfortunately, ho...
by Alderem
Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:11 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Recent Sierra & Family releases on GoG.com and Steam
Replies: 11
Views: 42131

Re: Recent Sierra & Family releases on GoG.com and Steam

Updated that the Steam Sierra Bundle was discontinued, and fixed an error in the text.
by Alderem
Mon Jan 21, 2019 1:20 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: MIDI 2.0
Replies: 3
Views: 12311

MIDI 2.0

Crazy stuff, but the MIDI Manufacturer's Association is prototyping a new evolution of the MIDI standard, dubbed MIDI 2.0. https://www.midi.org/articles/the-midi- ... rototyping
by Alderem
Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:10 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Al Lowe is selling his backups of Sierra source code!
Replies: 0
Views: 26436

Al Lowe is selling his backups of Sierra source code!

Yes, you read that correctly.

ArsTechnica article: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/11/ ... t-on-ebay/

MetalJesusRocks interview with Al Lowe: https://youtu.be/v7AgSapZAi8

So... who’s bidding?