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Demo of MIDI audio gear from the eighties hooked to an Apple ][e playing Ultima V... It's mindboggling to think that you could have been playing that game in 1
by TacticalCoder 4y ago
Demo of MIDI audio gear from the eighties hooked to an Apple ][e playing Ultima V...
It's mindboggling to think that you could have been playing that game in 1988 with such a soundtrack (skip at 6:40 if you're impatient):
https://youtu.be/aJMwspc-5wk https://youtu.be/aJMwspc-5wk
I certainly didn't have that great of a soundtrack when playing Ultima V back then on my my C64 (AFAIK there was no MIDI support in C64 games and no MIDI add-on for the C64? Although I may be wrong on that)
- buescher 4y agoBack in that era, '87 +/- 1, a friend loaned me a CZ-101 for a little while. We both had Atari STs, which had built-in MIDI ports, and many games supported MIDI out and specifically the CZ-101 (this was very pre-General-MIDI). It was amazing. Never got one for myself.
- kid64 4y agoAmazing! Do you recall any titles that had CZ-101 support?
- buescher 4y agoNot specifically - there are lists online and the games I remember playing a lot aren't on them, so my memory must have gone fuzzy over the last 35 years. Here's a neat example, though the video on the page uses the MT-32 for music: https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2019/06/19/atari-st-games-with-roland-mt-32-midi-support/ https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2019/06/19/atari-st-games-wi...
- joveian 4y agoMy favorite bit of marketing ever is the Live from the Sierra Lounge casette from 1988 which is an advertisement for the Roland MT-32 and AdLib. The first side compares it to basic computer audio and side two is just music with several game themes played on the MT-32 (and maybe AdLib for some?). https://archive.org/details/audio_live-from-the-sierra-lounge/LSLSide2.flac https://archive.org/details/audio_live-from-the-sierra-loung...