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[xen_]

This is fantastic, now my favourite music of all time!

 

[Chives]

cool find

 

[matthab]

Its used in the how to use windows intro vids.

 

[Amp34]

The first minute sounds like the end of a Lethal weapon type film.

 

[Aliboy]

town reminds me of sonic on megadrive ah those were the days lol

Too true ... gave me a little flashback that did

Al

 

[RobH]

39k file, seems relatively small for such a length of track.

It's a MIDI file which is essentially a list of notes and instruments so it doesn't require much space at all. MIDI's were used in both Transport Tycoon and Theme Hospital games for the music which is why it sounds similar, they probably share some instruments. Coincidently, both of those games have become open source remakes.

 

[MagicBoy]

Most games prior to Direct X used MIDI soundtracks. There's all sorts of classics out there, especially in the old adventure games. I seem to remember the Pinball game in the Windows 95 Plus pack had a stonking soundtrack.

I had a mate who was heavily into music with a Roland Sound Canvas card in his PC. Games sounded so much better with the music via the Roland and the usual sound effects via the SoundBlaster.

I'll have to find the Windows 95 Plus pack now. It's probably down the cellar somewhere...

 

[dandos23]

It was reminding me of sonic on the megedrive but then started to sound like the theme tune to some cheesy 80's film at the end.

I might get my my megedrive out.

 

[starfighter]

Reminds me of the music in Transport Tycoon

EDIT: All three .mids in there do!

lol yep.

Aliens ate my railway was a good tune on that.

 

[Cosimo]

Most games prior to Direct X used MIDI soundtracks.

MIDI was very popular. So were the keyboards and music software. Soundcards came with MIDI/Joystick interfaces. Everyone thought they were a budding composer and then discovered otherwise.

 

[Abraham]

love how people are suprised at the size of a midi file, think of it like an html file, where each note is a different letter and each letter is assigned a colour (as the voice), and then realise that MIDI is essentially a language/protocol for notating just those two things, along with a few additions, like changing the pitch or adding effects.

combine that with every MIDI compatible device having at least the same 128 General Midi voices (or near enough the same), and you essentially only have to store the sheet music for the computer to play.

 

["andy"]

comment from you tube

''steve balmer wrote this during a drug binge while he was supposed to be promoting windows ME"

 

[Dave85]

haha epic tunes.

 

[Duke]

It's a MIDI file which is essentially a list of notes and instruments so it doesn't require much space at all. MIDI's were used in both Transport Tycoon and Theme Hospital games for the music which is why it sounds similar, they probably share some instruments. Coincidently, both of those games have become open source remakes.

Yup. In the "old days" it sounded pretty bad on poor sound cards but great on Soundblaster ones.

 

[Gunni Parker]

Hehe no wonder Windows takes up so much space with these massive useless files

I agree. Glad for point it out, it needs to be deleted.