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The Making of Quake Soundtrack; Carmack, McGee, Nine Inch Nails
- olivierestsage 6y agoThis is really cool, but good lord, why does the NIN website need to format the ENTIRE TEXT IN CAPS? I get it for headings, but a long text post like this...
- shervinafshar 6y agoAgreed. They wanted to include these texts as booklet, but there were some legal issues apparently. The print-ready files are available here (no CAPS): https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2486/0276/files/QUAKE_essays_SEP15_FIN4_GRACoL_CL.pdf?v=1600226971 https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2486/0276/files/QUAKE_essa...
- neetodavid 6y agoreader view in firefox formats it nicely
- gorkish 6y agoAs influential and great as the NIN soundtrack for Quake was, I personally preferred Primus's "Pork Soda" as a quite literal drop-in replacement. The original soundtrack was shipped as regular redbook cd audio: the game was installed to the hard drive and would happily play music from whatever disc was in the CDROM drive.
- shervinafshar 6y agoSeems like the text is removed now and the link just goes to NIN store homepage. Here's the archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200916172127/https://www.nin.com/john-carmak-american-mcgee/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200916172127/https://www.nin.c...