When you say "midi out", I take it you're talking about the Windows MIDI Mapper in the Windows Multimedia Properties? Have you tried listening to MIDI files with a dedicated audio player (MidRadio, Winamp, RealPlayer, etc)?

Depends on the target audience I suppose. MP3 128 kbps is more than enough for the casual listener. Btw, MP3 VBR is merely a hack and presents no quality advantage whatsoever (besides, some players can't even play them properly).

Ogg is a different beast, it was designed with VBR in mind. A setting of 4.0 is equivalent to an MP3 encoded at 160 kbps with a higher quality -- frankly, any setting above is a waste of space and bandwidth.

I don't think he's making a selection based on quality, otherwise you'd wonder why he included a test for Apple's QuickTime softsynth :shock:

w00t!

That's most probably because DOSBox emulates DOS 5, which didn't have LFN support.

I seem to recall that under DOS 7 (Win95) and possibly DOS 6, file names are not limited to eight characters anymore (maybe 32 or something like that). The key point here is that you need to embed your command into a "double quote", say:

cd "program files"

In your example, the absolute path would be

"c:\program files\utility\myprogram.exe"

At least that's the way it works with the DOS shell of WinXP and Win2K (though it's only a DOS emulation, not a real DOS environment), and I'm almost sure it works the same under Win9x. I'd check it myself but my main rig is busted at the moment.

:smt048

As far as I know, Jerome Fisher (who took over the development of Munt after Dean Beeler made it open source) is from Germany and was recently looking for a CM-64. You do the math

Callet most probably composed everything else at Coktel; he was the in-house composer, and Inca was the only video game music that Douïeb ever did :-)

Here's the rest of the mail Yannick Chosse sent me:



Can't agree more!

I did it for you ;-)

Just received a mail this morning from Yannick, I'll roughly translate it in English:



The rest of his mail is a grumpy rant against the current video game industry ;-)

Ah, just found again the personal website of Yannick Chosse, one of the original game designers. In the section Jeux (games), he praises Gilles for his superb soundtrack; I take it he's talking about the game itself.

As far as I can remember, Charles Callet was a sound programmer for Cocktel Vision and Infogrames (he was usually credited for sound effects). But he occasionally composed chiptunes for various games like Drakkhen, Bob Morane, Goblins...

I believe Douïeb was the composer of Inca, but he may just have been the CD arranger. It was standard practice to rely on professional arrangers to enhance 'cheap' AdLib or Mod game soundtracks in Redbook. I remember that the Amiga music of Delphine games (Future Wars, Operation Stealth) was composed by Jean Baudlot, but the CD albums were arranged by a (back then) famous pop keyboardist called Bruno Ribera.

I didn't realized that Cocktel Vision had been bought out by Sierra way back in 1993 -- God knows why, since their games definitely didn't look like typical Sierra games (Emmanuelle, Geisha, Goblins, Ween...). The 'adventure' games of this French company were extremely popular here back then, along with those from other crazy developers like Infomédia, Lankhor, Infogrames or Ubi Soft [sic].

The composer of Inca 1&2 was a guy named Gilles Douïeb, who was a professional jazz-funk musician (bassist). In 1992, Inca was nominated by the great but now defunct magazine Tilt for Best Soundtrack and Best Graphics (it won the latter, but lost the former against Dune and Kyrandia). A funny anecdote: the song 'Inca People' turned into a minor hit in France!

No problem, Tom! Switching from HTML to SQL-powered pages is quite a steep curve.

Works neat, Nemo

Did you make the GM transcriptions by hand or did you log the soundtrack via ScummVM / VDMS?



To my knowledge, there's no native GM support in BASS. The setup of my DOS copy only supports AdLib/SB and Roland -- Roland MT-32 obviously, since it sounds horrible if you try it with a GM device. Unless there was a late GM patch, which I'm not aware of.

Indeed. There's another GS soundtrack for Sorcerian Forever, but this one is different as well.

The thing is, no two Sorcerians sound or look the same. Almost every platform had its own version (not even mentioning the many different scenarii), more or less faithful to the original PC-88 one -- which btw is actually Dragon Slayer 5, but that's a whole different subject.

The PC Engine (TurboGrafx) version was made by Victor Musical Industries (JVC) and is largely different from the others made by Falcom. The soundtrack, composed by Kenji Kawai, is entirely new except for the Title tune and a few others. Very nice, but not the best work from this great composer.

The IBM DOS version was made by Falcom for Sierra, and only meant to be distributed in the US (the local PC in Japan was the NEC PC-98 back then). All in all, it's a rather faithful port. Like many Falcom soundtracks of the time, this one was originally composed by Mieko Ishikawa and the infamous Yuzo Koshiro. The MT-32 transcriptions by Rob and Ken are not bad at all compared to the later GS versions released by Falcom.

Anyway... Bottom line: don't expect to hear the same tunes on the PC Engine version

Thanks for the explanation, it's fair enough and I respect it. But it leads me to some reality check about the MT-32 community. Please note that I'm not trying to blame you personally, I'm just going to make a general observation.

I've been contributing to release various sound files for different systems (AY, MOD, HES, GYM, SPC) for some years with the intent of preserving old music played on vintage systems, no matter what effort I put in the extraction of the resources. I fully understand those trying to protect their 'intellectual property' as you call it, but in all plain honesty I think it just contributes to the death of the medium.

Digital soundtracks are neat, but people looking around for genuine MT-32 game music files for their genuine device have litterally nothing to rely upon, and I'm not even considering Game of MIDs as a satisfying resource in that regard (bad rips, no sysex). Quest Studios must be the only exception out there, and if you think about it, this situation is a real shame. Maybe I should start get cracking myself.

Thanks again, anyway. Can't wait for the soundtrack -- honest!

No jumping in Gateway, as far as I can tell :o)

Gracias, Alistair! Can't wait to hear your digital soundtrack, Kyrandia's MT-32 music is definitely great. In the meantime, I'd sure love to try out the MIDI file(s) that your recorded, if that is possible.