To everyone that has been patiently waiting for this, here is the long overdue follow-up to the original SB Hour of Power - I hope it lives up to expectations. Lemme know what you think!
Awesome! finally people will recognize how great DOS music is and how close it can be in quality to Super Nintendo music. Thank You for making this! :D
Np! :) But as much as I love SNES music, this soundcard in AWE mode in Dos can blow it away! If you look at my original Sound Blaster hour video (it's linked in the description), the last 10 minutes or so have recordings of it in wavetable mode. Tyrian, especially, can do all sorts of voodoo with it that the SNES could only dream of ;)
28:51 That Kyrandia sample sounds... wrong. It's not the AdLib/OPL2 I recognise. AFAIK the game doesn't (directly) support OPL3. It sounds like MT-32 MIDI being played as General MIDI through a MIDI-to-FM converter. The MT-32 harp in this track sounds like a horn when played by a GM device.
Legend of Kyrandia uses real mode Audio Interface Library drivers by John Miles and the game includes OPL3 drivers, like the SBP2FM.ADV and the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 ADV driver which is OPL3 as well. However the data that is sent might be normal OPL2 data. But i agree with you, here it does not sound right.
OH SHIT RANDUMLY STUMBLE UPON DIS VID FROM NOSTALGIA N RANDUMLY PRESSED A TIMESLOT IN DA VID AND FOUND WACKY WOOLS A CHILDHOOD GAME I USE TO PLAY BUT FORGET DA NAME AND BEAN LOOKIN EVRYWARE TIL NOW WOOOOOOOW
+PeteSanctions It's because midi isn't music, it's merely an interface. Midi music files are just coded instructions on how to reproduce a song. The way it sounds depends on the sound card. The sound card (real or emulated) is the "instrument" that plays back those instructions, and they all sound different from one another. For example, the MT32 uses a totally different set of sounds to playback a file than a Gravis Ultrasound, even though they can both play the same song through midi. This music isn't midi though. In principle it's similar, but FM synthesis differs in some important ways. That being said, FM can still approximate the sounds needed to play midi reasonably well in many cases.
Midi "asks" the sound card to provide a muted trumpet, or whatever instrument, and the sound card does the best it can to provide it. The sound samples used are known as sound fonts. Many sound cards allow you to change the sound font to whatever one you happen to have (there are even joke sound fonts that are to midi what wingdings is to fonts).
>Your sound card works perfectly
Literally transported me back in time. 41 years old here
That classic Soundblaster sound is a whole asethetic.
OPL2/3 ftw :D
To everyone that has been patiently waiting for this, here is the long overdue follow-up to the original SB Hour of Power - I hope it lives up to expectations. Lemme know what you think!
thanks for share F29 Retaliator (title theme), Lotus III: tUC (Title theme) and Raptor: CotS (Bravo Sector) music!!
Great list. Very nostalgic. Time signatures would be nice :)
Summer challenge, gods, ultima underworld. what a nice selection. I love it. I liked soundblaster 2.0 music test hehe.
My first ever experience with DOS was with a game called Math Rescue. DOS games are underrated and fun as hell.
math rescue was fucking hard
9:12 Tempest 2000
25:42 Wacky Wheels
55:50 Abuse
thanks for timestamping three songs out of an hour
@@arcticridge yw
I'm crossing my fingers for 3rd video.
🥰 Thank's it's a great music.
Awesome! finally people will recognize how great DOS music is and how close it can be in quality to Super Nintendo music.
Thank You for making this! :D
Np! :) But as much as I love SNES music, this soundcard in AWE mode in Dos can blow it away! If you look at my original Sound Blaster hour video (it's linked in the description), the last 10 minutes or so have recordings of it in wavetable mode. Tyrian, especially, can do all sorts of voodoo with it that the SNES could only dream of ;)
I agree! hahaha I'll definitely checkout your previous work, can't believe I'd missed out on it the First time.
don't get me wrong, but FM synthesis surpass the SNES (or any sample based) music by far!!
Love this compilation, needs more Wing Commander though. Privateer and Wing Commander 2 had some amazing tunes.
dope dude thanks for another great soundtrack
Yay!! More of this, please.
It always bugged me when IRQ was on 7 by default.
IRQ 5 ftw!
Instant trip.
hellllll yes. Thanks!
Nice
7:38 are those Roberta and Ken on the cover?? lol!
I believe that it is them 🤣
Yea great, but imagine having to play WarCraft 2 with this music instead of the CD audio.
Sounds good to me
28:51 That Kyrandia sample sounds... wrong. It's not the AdLib/OPL2 I recognise. AFAIK the game doesn't (directly) support OPL3. It sounds like MT-32 MIDI being played as General MIDI through a MIDI-to-FM converter. The MT-32 harp in this track sounds like a horn when played by a GM device.
Legend of Kyrandia uses real mode Audio Interface Library drivers by John Miles and the game includes OPL3 drivers, like the SBP2FM.ADV and the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 ADV driver which is OPL3 as well. However the data that is sent might be normal OPL2 data.
But i agree with you, here it does not sound right.
listening to this on a sound blaster Z
Didn't like that Ken theme at first but it won me over near the end
OH SHIT RANDUMLY STUMBLE UPON DIS VID FROM NOSTALGIA N RANDUMLY PRESSED A TIMESLOT IN DA VID AND FOUND WACKY WOOLS A CHILDHOOD GAME I USE TO PLAY BUT FORGET DA NAME AND BEAN LOOKIN EVRYWARE TIL NOW WOOOOOOOW
+noobMan93 Hell yeah, the original PC Mario Kart! :D
Intro music from GODS is a bit messed up, otherwise nice compilation!
Excellent. :D
I've always wondered why MIDI songs sounded different depending on what system/hardware you used?
+PeteSanctions It's because midi isn't music, it's merely an interface. Midi music files are just coded instructions on how to reproduce a song. The way it sounds depends on the sound card. The sound card (real or emulated) is the "instrument" that plays back those instructions, and they all sound different from one another. For example, the MT32 uses a totally different set of sounds to playback a file than a Gravis Ultrasound, even though they can both play the same song through midi.
This music isn't midi though. In principle it's similar, but FM synthesis differs in some important ways. That being said, FM can still approximate the sounds needed to play midi reasonably well in many cases.
Midi "asks" the sound card to provide a muted trumpet, or whatever instrument, and the sound card does the best it can to provide it. The sound samples used are known as sound fonts. Many sound cards allow you to change the sound font to whatever one you happen to have (there are even joke sound fonts that are to midi what wingdings is to fonts).
Raptor is the Best.
The Tempest 2000 OST is pleasant, though it pales in comparison to the Jaguar version.
The Dos version used the exact same mod files as the Jaguar version did if you set up digital sound in the game's setup utility
Wacky Wheels !!!
31:24 Star Wars x wing
19:40 Where mah Munkies at??
как перестать это слушать?
You should checkout Booym's soundtrack! Its beautiful
Never understood the lyrics of the music of GODS (39:35), nor if it is a digitized human pipe or a bagpipe or both.
Rise from your grave!
Sounds a lot like Sega
I demand moar. Or I will poop on everything you love.
That would be really shitty of you.
[Birb Noise]
A Birb Oh, I say.