When I play DOS version on DoSBox - I get sound quality designated as "AD Lib" from your video, But I want to play with sound quality from video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sdRJ3pzbDG0.html How can I do that?
This game has been living rent free in my head since I got my first PC in 1993. I had this game, this version not the other CDROM version with speech I later found out existed. I remember the deeply concerning culture shock of the man waking up FULLY clothed with a SPORT JACKET and SHOES on.. SHOES in BED. We didnt even wear shoes in the HOUSE and this lunatic wakes up fully dressed he didnt even take off his jacket. I mean it kind of makes SOME sense in some of the context here but at the time its like.. what nobody is questioning the grown ass man waking up from a fully made up bed in his clothes with shoes on? I remember feeling existential dread in my heart seeing it, because the very idea of it, I wasnt so worried about aliens or monsters I was worried about his mother or wife discovering him in bed with shoes on and what might happen next.
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The game is by far better with Roland MT-32 and it is one of these games that it plays 100% correctly only with the first generation (old one) Roland MT-32.
For me the best version was the Macintosh one until I played the dos version with Roland MT-32/CM-64. And yes, the ultimate talkie edition of Monkey Island including speech and Roland for music is the best one :)
This game has extra sound effects with Roland CM32L or CM64 or LAPC-I. There are sound effects of thunders, dogs, birds, waters and realistic sounds of the doors when you open or close them and these sounds do not exist with Roland MT-32. The music on the intro is one of my favorites with Roland.
One of my favourite adventure games. I have watched many times the introduction on my PC with Roland CM-64 because it is simply amazing. Macintosh versions has smaller and nice fonts on the dialogues and descriptions, but it misses many things.
Amiga has nice music quality on this game. The same with Macintosh version. But the best of all by far is the PC CD version with Roland MT-32. The game has great soundtrack and with Roland is fantastic.
There's another version I had for Windows 95 and the bubbles were a heavier realistic sound. I regret giving away/throwing away most of my childhood pc games.
Such a wacky game.. I grew up in a Pentecostal house and got my hands on this game.. felt like I was going to Torment (couldn't say "Hell" even as a name because it was a "cuss word") for playing it. It also creeped me out -- the devil talking to the player and offering things for one's soul. hehehe
Cool... always awesome when game versions were made specifically to take advantage of Tandy 3-voice audio. I recently posted this video of a musical montage showcasing all the death animations from Space Quest 1 on my Tandy 1000 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nhxyn7lX9pc.html . I recently got King's Quest on my Tandy, so hopefully I can do a similar montage video for that soon. Thanks for posting this, and for keeping retro alive! I subscribed!
I just sort of assumed two things back in the day: 1) As far as games went, there were PC Speaker bleep bloopy doop doops and then there was what you got with pretty much any sound card. Why would there be any kind of difference other than that, except maybe for audio quality due to your speakers or headphones? 2) The Roland MT-32 was an exterior unit and insanely expensive because low end pros in the music industry and/or overfunded amateur hobbyists used it to create music---it was the 80s, after all, and damn near everything in pop music involved synthesizers. The only reason I ever heard of the Roland MT-32 was due to all the Sierra games I played as a kid in the 80s. Until *very* recently, I had never heard a comparison between all the different sound hardware. ...yeah, I had *NO* idea until maybe a year or two ago how superior the MT-32 sounds were even compared to the ubiquitous AdLib/Soundblaster cards. In the case of Police Quest II here, the sound literally outclasses the graphics by an order of magnitude and it's almost surreal...like playing a game with SNES graphics but N64 audio quality.
".like playing a game with SNES graphics but N64 audio quality." SNES audio - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QmmN-13uDS0.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RRvYkrrpMKo.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--qiQ_xqNnqc.html
@@gurujoe75 I haven't listened to your links yet to ponder how great the audio was for the SNES, though I'm sure it was wonderful. The point I was making is that running the MT-32 moved the sound quality up by a generation, making it weirdly out-of-step compared to the graphics.
@@valecrassus7835 I know very well what you wanted to say and that's why I put those SPECIFIC SNES links in there. SNES audio HW is a very small percentage of the MT-32's robustness and price. Those audio links will shock you anyway.
re-releases of vintage DOS games should use FLAC recordings of the various sound outputs so you could pick either the best sound or the sound that makes you feel most nostalgic!
Tandy was so amazing back in the day. Everything was better about it except TGA graphics, lol. Needed more RAM :( The later models I believe supported EGA natively.
That's not the original King's Quest 1 from 1984, that version only had a little ditty that played at the start, not greensleeves. This version was made after the release of King's Quest 2, and was retroactively given Greensleeves to match the music from KQ2.
