Music like this from actual era has this feel that "retrowave" artists very often fail to replicate... oh so many Murphys met their demise in my hands(I never knew his name back then) listening to this tune. RIP.
Would you believe that, when I'm troubleshooting machinery for my work, I still start to sing this tune in the back of my head. Talk about conditioning to solve problems... I love it!
Ever since I played this game in 91, this tune has crept back into my head at the most inappropriate moments XD I nearly bought an old PC so I could wipe the dust off the disc to re-listen to the tune haha! Thank you for uploading.
It's funny how kids nowadays say "but i liEk Valve Portal 2.0 because it challenges them brain puzzles". Kid, the cake is fake, go finish Supaplex if You want a real brain challenge.
Supaplex is also longer, though. I agree Portal was mostly easy (though there were a few tricky gel puzzles in Portal 2), but Supaplex is a very long game and has a lot of time to grow in difficulty. I actually did finish this a long fucking time ago, the only exception was level 104 because it was bullshit and I used an exploit to pass. There was no fun puzzle to it, you just had to be EXTRA careful to not lose even a single infotron to an accidental explosion in an ultra-random level and that sucked ass, so I used a trick/glitch that allows you to get more than 9 infotrons from an electron, which made the level really easy. Everything else? Finished legitimately, with no bug exploitation. I did play with the intended speed of 35 FPS, though, using SpeedFix. A few levels are just insane if played on 70 FPS, which is the speed some people encountered on faster computers. Favorite level would probably be 108. IMO, the cleverest one.
Portal 2 is for those looking for a polished experience with a bunch of brain food along the way. Supaplex is for mentally insatiable fuckers who just want as much brain food as possible and couldn't care less about any other aspects. That's why Supaplex has so goddamn many levels, too. "Knowing when to stop" would be a detriment to such a player, not a virtue. Anyway, I still hold it that Supaplex has levels that are more difficult and creative in their puzzle design than anything in Portal. Levels 103 and 108 come to mind. However, as an overall experience, Portal 2 is better because it has more than *just* the puzzles.
@@translila Haven't heard this in 5-10 years.. now I'm possesed to listen to it for the next 5 days while playing games n doing my diploma work.. gna run marathons to it too
я помню эту тему, когда после злощастного писяспикера, купив саунд бластер выбирали в настройках адлиб или саунд брастер, вот это было настоящее счастье!
Call me crazy, but the instrument that starts playing that descending pattern at 0:15 sounds different from how I remember it from my childhood. I remember it sounding brighter, more percussion-like, and maybe even an octave higher.
This is basically a mix of Pac-Man and Boulder Dash. You collect the key items and get to the exit when you've got enough, whilst avoiding boulders and other hazards along the way.
All of them. This game has the most inane sound programming I've ever encountered in a DOS game. It's not a MIDI file at all. There are special preprogrammed routines to handle Adlib, any SB, Roland and PC Speaker *separately*. The Adlib and SB versions sound the same on all 100% compatible cards. If Supaplex doesn't like your sound choice, it will just freeze, possibly requiring a deletion of supaplex.cfg If your card is not 100% compatible with Adlib, SB, or Roland... you're out of luck.
I just realized that the picture is Murphy about to crush a resistor with its other resistor friends angry complaining in the background! It's quite the morbid image!
I have memories of this music as my dad would play the game. I started playing (and got hooked) the game when I got a bit older, and still enjoy playing it with DosBox.
You can play all supaplex likewise levels in the open source game Rocks and Diamonds. And you can easily skin it to be completely like supaplex (including this music).
@astralrock tbh, there is a program called dosbox which can run pretty much all of the old dos games on a modern pc. You have probably heard about it etc, etc,... But I got your point. Thanks for listening.
I love to hear the music after the level starts. Doing nothing, till the MURPHY sleep in the centre green PCB :v haha.. I missed my father, who love to play this game too.. May Allah bless us all till jannah..aamiin
Ahh, good ol' times. I remember playing Supaplex on Intel 80286. :) What kind of absurd is when all these new shiny computers won't ever run the game. :( Damn, I should've kept the old computer.
@TheSupremeSkill Yes, I know for DOSBox. Thank you for your suggestion, though. :) It's true that DOSBox is good (and only) replacement, but having an old computer and playing it as programmers designed it, hits nostalgia so hard. Ohh, God... time flies so fast. And I wished all those brand new computers to come. How naïve I was. But, thanks again for sharing this great music! :)
@otus95 Aika epeli. Hyvä peli, joskin helvetin ärsyttävä kun johkin kenttään jää oikeen kunnolla jumiin, ja aina alusta. En ikinä pelannut sitten loppuun tätä, häpeäkseni myönnän.
I think I got through 50-60 levels. It took only a few years of endless amounts of torturous attempts. Then my good ol' 95 burned out most likely due to supaplex, heh.
A MIDI file can be improved by a better card. Supaplex, however, *assumes* you have an old (aka bad) SB card. If you have a newer one, the "new" features will not be used. If the "100% compatible" portion stays the same as it was in the old card, it will (of course) produce the same results. If ANYTHING in that portion is different, the game freezes. A better card may give you a better frequency response, but that's IT. Everything else is the same on all Supaplex-compatible Adlib/SB cards.
I play it on my android phone, can be downloaded from andrioid market for free, I used to play this when I was little, 5-6 years, and now it`s so great I can play it on my phone and looks exactly like on pc
Kids who played Nintendo got stuck with Mario (one of the worst games, imo) while kids with PCs had access to Supaplex. Life sure isn't fair, but thank the gaming gods I had a PC in the 80s and 90s.
Imo Supaplex ia hardly the best example of a good PC title and it's a puzzle game while Mario is a platformer. Both are good in their own way. The best thing about Supaplex is the music.
For those who are not familiar with Dosbox, Supaplex is available on Steam. This "remaster" has slightly different feel to it compared to the original but it still plays great in my opinion! store.steampowered.com/app/833140/Supaplex/
Supaplex is maybe the greatest puzzle game of all times.:D It's just so annoying that it can be played only with DOSBox if your computer has windows Xp, vista or 7 :P
Btw, supaplex was rewritten and runs without any emulator/dosbox. you can get it from here github.com/sergiou87/open-supaplex/releases look for the one that says windows or macOS depending on your computer :)
And which SB would you be talking about? It's like saying singing sounds the same as a trumpet. Some of it probably sounds quite similar, most of it sounds nothing like it.
That's ridiculous. Being 100% compatible doesn't mean they sound identical, especially since different soundblasters use different chips and different frequency cut off points. It could be very similar for many types of Soundblaster - possibly for all types which are compatible with this music, but it they still be noticeably different.
Use DOSBOX :D And then download all the old games. It's a DOS emulator! It works almost flawlessly, had a problem with 1 game out of 50 i tried during my "retro childhood gaming weekend"
@TheSupremeSkill Juu on kyl välil tosi vaikee ja ärsyttävä. Ne level skipit kyl helpottaa mut on se silti välillä aika vaikeeta mut onneks täält youtubest voi kattoo jos ei keksi jotain kohtaa. Mäkin alotin tän just alusta niin et oon jossain level 31:s.
"The sound blaster and AdLib version of this music are all the same" Yeah, if you're half deaf. The only difference is NOT in FX, the quality is different, and of course it depends what soundblaster you're using - you could have a soundblaster 1 (really shit), AWE 32 (really, really shit), AWE 64 (really quite good), or an X-fi (IDK, but probably really really good) AWE 32 makes the monkey island theme sound like annoying humming.
![(MS-DOS) Supaplex Music - Adlib / Sound Blaster [Song]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/79WdeuLRyEc/mqdefault.jpg)
Music like this from actual era has this feel that "retrowave" artists very often fail to replicate... oh so many Murphys met their demise in my hands(I never knew his name back then) listening to this tune. RIP.
My dad showed this to me a few days ago, I love it just like him! He played this game in his childhood along with my aunt
SAME
Would you believe that, when I'm troubleshooting machinery for my work, I still start to sing this tune in the back of my head. Talk about conditioning to solve problems...
I love it!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Ever since I played this game in 91, this tune has crept back into my head at the most inappropriate moments XD
I nearly bought an old PC so I could wipe the dust off the disc to re-listen to the tune haha! Thank you for uploading.
you have DosBox for nostalgia - Carmageddon 1 and the like
Yo bro this game is on steam now, released 3 years ago. 100% worth
I was just rocking this on my guitar and realized it was the supaplex theme from my childhood.
My entire childhood.
Best game hands down
"THINK"
oh no I know this level it's soo hard
It's funny how kids nowadays say "but i liEk Valve Portal 2.0 because it challenges them brain puzzles". Kid, the cake is fake, go finish Supaplex if You want a real brain challenge.
+Jovan Janevski very true story!
Supaplex is also longer, though. I agree Portal was mostly easy (though there were a few tricky gel puzzles in Portal 2), but Supaplex is a very long game and has a lot of time to grow in difficulty.
I actually did finish this a long fucking time ago, the only exception was level 104 because it was bullshit and I used an exploit to pass. There was no fun puzzle to it, you just had to be EXTRA careful to not lose even a single infotron to an accidental explosion in an ultra-random level and that sucked ass, so I used a trick/glitch that allows you to get more than 9 infotrons from an electron, which made the level really easy.
Everything else? Finished legitimately, with no bug exploitation. I did play with the intended speed of 35 FPS, though, using SpeedFix. A few levels are just insane if played on 70 FPS, which is the speed some people encountered on faster computers.
Favorite level would probably be 108. IMO, the cleverest one.
People like Portal 2 because it's well paced, has great writing, and knows when to stop.
This game didn't.
Portal 2 is for those looking for a polished experience with a bunch of brain food along the way.
Supaplex is for mentally insatiable fuckers who just want as much brain food as possible and couldn't care less about any other aspects. That's why Supaplex has so goddamn many levels, too. "Knowing when to stop" would be a detriment to such a player, not a virtue.
Anyway, I still hold it that Supaplex has levels that are more difficult and creative in their puzzle design than anything in Portal. Levels 103 and 108 come to mind. However, as an overall experience, Portal 2 is better because it has more than *just* the puzzles.
Yep, you pretty much nailed it.
this is one of the best, if not, *the* best bassline i've ever heard! it's simply amazing!
I'm gona send ur comment to Davie504 hes a bassist :D utuber
@@stanimirborov3765 hell yeah! imagine if he actually covers this
i'll genuinely cry from joy lmao
@@translila Haven't heard this in 5-10 years.. now I'm possesed to listen to it for the next 5 days while playing games n doing my diploma work.. gna run marathons to it too
tears
One of the best games of all time. :)
And a great music.
ikimizin şarkısıydı o çocukları ile mandalina yiyor ama ben evde son ses bunu dinliyorum. Sen açma çocukların uyanır...
:((
Ahhh so much nostalgia. This theme was stuck in my head for a long time
я помню эту тему, когда после злощастного писяспикера, купив саунд бластер выбирали в настройках адлиб или саунд брастер, вот это было настоящее счастье!
Best game ever created!
NOSTALGIA OVERLOAD!!
2021
Your not kidding. I never thought I would ever here this music again.
Call me crazy, but the instrument that starts playing that descending pattern at 0:15 sounds different from how I remember it from my childhood. I remember it sounding brighter, more percussion-like, and maybe even an octave higher.
This is recorded via Dosbox, so the sound is emulated. Emulation is not perfect.
you want THIS version th-cam.com/video/avx5HGtytrg/w-d-xo.html
this is how you (and I remember it).
Yes, this is the version I remember! Thank you kindly, sir!
That bassline is pretty tasty:)
This is basically a mix of Pac-Man and Boulder Dash. You collect the key items and get to the exit when you've got enough, whilst avoiding boulders and other hazards along the way.
I had a black and white monitor when I started playing it and later I was shocked this game actually has colors
All of them.
This game has the most inane sound programming I've ever encountered in a DOS game. It's not a MIDI file at all. There are special preprogrammed routines to handle Adlib, any SB, Roland and PC Speaker *separately*.
The Adlib and SB versions sound the same on all 100% compatible cards. If Supaplex doesn't like your sound choice, it will just freeze, possibly requiring a deletion of supaplex.cfg
If your card is not 100% compatible with Adlib, SB, or Roland... you're out of luck.
I wasn't a fan of the game, but I played it just for the music!
I just realized that the picture is Murphy about to crush a resistor with its other resistor friends angry complaining in the background! It's quite the morbid image!
I have memories of this music as my dad would play the game. I started playing (and got hooked) the game when I got a bit older, and still enjoy playing it with DosBox.
SAeeME!2021
It's a game that shows the future. Soon, we will become like them. I wanna be a floppy disk! Weeee!
Games This is future soon all of us will be floppy disks.
xD
I hope not either way it will be cool or not
Best Game music.
This theme reminds me that i can solve anything cuz i have solve many levels of this hard game !
Best Boulder Dash clone on DOS!
You can play all supaplex likewise levels in the open source game Rocks and Diamonds. And you can easily skin it to be completely like supaplex (including this music).
difficult game
@astralrock tbh, there is a program called dosbox which can run pretty much all of the old dos games on a modern pc. You have probably heard about it etc, etc,...
But I got your point. Thanks for listening.
@MinderSoft
Thanks for listening this. Retro rock n roll.
I love to hear the music after the level starts.
Doing nothing, till the MURPHY sleep in the centre green PCB :v
haha..
I missed my father, who love to play this game too..
May Allah bless us all till jannah..aamiin
Got my parrents addicted again on this epic game..thank you DosBox
13.04.2021!!
The music of my childhood
0:00 when you have to go to work
I love this game and theme.
when i was like 14 years old i finished this game on mah 486 pc i was a baws.
Ahh, good ol' times. I remember playing Supaplex on Intel 80286. :) What kind of absurd is when all these new shiny computers won't ever run the game. :(
Damn, I should've kept the old computer.
Dosbox runs it; google Dosbox
or just google to run it in a browser... there are sites that have it
You will find it some new release for Android at Google play..
*самый лучший саундтрек в этом мире*
Banger
@TheSupremeSkill Yes, I know for DOSBox. Thank you for your suggestion, though. :)
It's true that DOSBox is good (and only) replacement, but having an old computer and playing it as programmers designed it, hits nostalgia so hard.
Ohh, God... time flies so fast. And I wished all those brand new computers to come. How naïve I was.
But, thanks again for sharing this great music! :)
Слида... то есть СЮС одобряет 👍
I remember that if you didn't touch the keyboard for a few minutes, the main character named Murphy would yawn a few times and then go to sleep.
AHAH yeah !!!
Never finished this game before, there is a HD remake for Android and i completed about 30 of 111 levels. This game is so hard.
The Original had no save states, so if you messed up in any way, you're dead also no way to view more than a small portion of the screen
@otus95 Aika epeli. Hyvä peli, joskin helvetin ärsyttävä kun johkin kenttään jää oikeen kunnolla jumiin, ja aina alusta. En ikinä pelannut sitten loppuun tätä, häpeäkseni myönnän.
Сюс одобряет.
i used to play this while looking for pac man games, and I founded a legend
childhood right here
That song takes me 18 years in the past.
donde se puede bajar musica de este tipo
This game had an option to play the music to a Roland MT-32, but to be honest, it sounded quite underwhelming compared to how it sounded on the OPL.
The best!
This is the game i played in my childhood when i had 5 years, i loved this game it was funny, but sometimes it was really hard for me xDDD
Solid beatz
I think I got through 50-60 levels. It took only a few years of endless amounts of torturous attempts. Then my good ol' 95 burned out most likely due to supaplex, heh.
good old times...
A MIDI file can be improved by a better card. Supaplex, however, *assumes* you have an old (aka bad) SB card. If you have a newer one, the "new" features will not be used. If the "100% compatible" portion stays the same as it was in the old card, it will (of course) produce the same results. If ANYTHING in that portion is different, the game freezes.
A better card may give you a better frequency response, but that's IT. Everything else is the same on all Supaplex-compatible Adlib/SB cards.
thanks
I play it on my android phone, can be downloaded from andrioid market for free, I used to play this when I was little, 5-6 years, and now it`s so great I can play it on my phone and looks exactly like on pc
@warlocksmight That's run on Win XP too
I thought I remembered this song, but I didnt =-\
what part of "of THIS music" do you not understand?
THIS tune sounds the same on both Adlib and SB.
muchos no lo tienen completo, ya que solo tienen 111 niveles, pero son 211 en total (si, una masacre pasarlos todos xD)
Mario Nieves donde están los otros 100 niveles?
Eran mas.
@@bl0ggsM4rbl00d saber, yo recuerdo que cuando lo instalaron en mi pc en los 90, venian todos
Kids who played Nintendo got stuck with Mario (one of the worst games, imo) while kids with PCs had access to Supaplex. Life sure isn't fair, but thank the gaming gods I had a PC in the 80s and 90s.
Imo Supaplex ia hardly the best example of a good PC title and it's a puzzle game while Mario is a platformer. Both are good in their own way. The best thing about Supaplex is the music.
It was 1991.
Can you update the link to other server please
I just love it
@astralrock You have to download DosBox and Supaplex :) and everything is like in the old times :)
For those who are not familiar with Dosbox, Supaplex is available on Steam. This "remaster" has slightly different feel to it compared to the original but it still plays great in my opinion! store.steampowered.com/app/833140/Supaplex/
There is also a Remaster on Android that is free.
Supaplex is maybe the greatest puzzle game of all times.:D
It's just so annoying that it can be played only with DOSBox if your computer has windows Xp, vista or 7 :P
DUN... DUN... DUNDUN. DUN. DUN. DUNDUN!!
Never beat Sadism, Find the Way (or how it's called) and Trouble Ahead. Rest of the levels were beat...in 12 years?
Edit: I finally beat them legit
@TheSupremeSkill Terve vaan. DOS-pelit FTW!
Music by David Whittaker
Btw, supaplex was rewritten and runs without any emulator/dosbox. you can get it from here github.com/sergiou87/open-supaplex/releases look for the one that says windows or macOS depending on your computer :)
And which SB would you be talking about?
It's like saying singing sounds the same as a trumpet. Some of it probably sounds quite similar, most of it sounds nothing like it.
That's ridiculous.
Being 100% compatible doesn't mean they sound identical, especially since different soundblasters use different chips and different frequency cut off points.
It could be very similar for many types of Soundblaster - possibly for all types which are compatible with this music, but it they still be noticeably different.
I am playing it now and my dad is pro (cuz he played in his childhood) so it is a fun journey I am level 47 now
Tough game in the later stages. I never completed it. :/
Use DOSBOX :D And then download all the old games. It's a DOS emulator! It works almost flawlessly, had a problem with 1 game out of 50 i tried during my "retro childhood gaming weekend"
@warlocksmight Well, there ain't much to praise about those modern online fps games. Go for that and have a merry christmas.
this game is on steam now, released 3 years ago. 100% worth
@TheSupremeSkill Juu on kyl välil tosi vaikee ja ärsyttävä. Ne level skipit kyl helpottaa mut on se silti välillä aika vaikeeta mut onneks täält youtubest voi kattoo jos ei keksi jotain kohtaa. Mäkin alotin tän just alusta niin et oon jossain level 31:s.
@TheSupremeSkill It's your opinion about fps games...
Updated.
@TheSupremeSkill Yes I'm from Finland :D
Best on 8bits. ;)
Sounds like 'Fack' by Eminem
Sir Shadow Maybe Eminem has played Supaplex and liked the beat!
I,m Darwin Watterson
Also sounds like Rihanna: Where Have You Been
this shit was harder than Portal
аааааааа!!!!
@otus95 You happen to be from Finland?
to jest gra :-D
No :)
gg
This looks more like a robotic version of Pac-Man.
And it is but with tough puzzles.
@@TheSupremeSkill I hear yeah, mate! I've played this when I was 12 years old.
@ToxicBarrel Terse va. Keen 5 oli mielestäni Keeneistä paras.
I played the arcade
Finally, a Sound Blaster song that doesn't sound like fart
Check your speakers.
@@TheSupremeSkill Literally?
@@midi_feline Wouldn't hurt. On a serious note, check Dune's Adlib OST for very good Adlib composition.
@warlocksmight wtf?!
There's something wrong with this video. 360p sounds best.
"The sound blaster and AdLib version of this music are all the same"
Yeah, if you're half deaf.
The only difference is NOT in FX, the quality is different, and of course it depends what soundblaster you're using - you could have a soundblaster 1 (really shit), AWE 32 (really, really shit), AWE 64 (really quite good), or an X-fi (IDK, but probably really really good)
AWE 32 makes the monkey island theme sound like annoying humming.
@warlocksmight yeah man! srsly these new games are just sooo ANNOYING!!!
they're all the same! lol
old school shit is the best, peace
PC speaker version is so much better :/