How you *COULD* have been playing Ultima III in 1986... 

I owned Ultima III for the Atari 800XL and it was able to play both the music and sound effects at the same time.

Each of those tracks sound absolutely gorgeous out of the FB-01! Talk about a kick back to the past.

Amazing work. I first played Ultima III on an 800XL, what an amazing jump it was to the ST years later. Had no idea about the MIDI channel, thanks for sharing!

I created a Standard MIDI File encapsulation of the FB-01 SysEx configuration some time ago, but neglected to mention it here. Without further ado: www.symphoniae.com/atari/U3ST01.ZIP This has been optimized for use with just a single FB-01. Usage details are in the 'READ.ME' file.

Fantastic! I knew Ultima III supported MIDI as I got it playing MIDI using a SAM2195 a year or two back when I fitted the SAM2195 internally, but I didn't know there kit out there where you could assign different instruments for note ranges - very cool! the result you got there is fantastic! Subbed!

Sir, I wholeheartedly approve of your MIDI ventures. Nice arrangement.

Honestly surprised the Atari's version of the track sounds so close to the C64. In 2023 I occasionally play these songs in-game during Space Station 13, which is a game where you take on a job at a doomed space station overrun by traitors, cultists, and blobs, but which was originally released in 2003 and has had open source development for twenty full years. The result is one of the most feature-rich games of all time, including the ability to import MIDIs and play them on an in-game instrument!

Played the game on my Apple IIc back in the day.

I had an Atari 600XL. I played many of the early Ultima games on it.

Still one of my fav game boxes.

WOW!! Really cool!! I had no idea Ultima III outputted MIDI on the Atari ST. What I'd really like to know is how you spent so much time outside and letting it pass that much as you were playing music and you DIDN'T get attacked LOL. No monsters walked up to you. We could've heard the battle music as you tried to fight them with your ONE character hehe :)

man, i love the FB-01. probably my favourite FM synth of them all, weirdly enough.

It sounds really nice.

Pretty cool, I wish we could tag people in RU-vid comments-- Richard Garriott would probably like to see the second half of this video. Ultima III was my first role-playing game ever... I had the IBM PC version.

wow you got it all in working condition :)😊

I'm tempted to try this on my old 1040stfm now :)

This is awesome - now i have to play :)

Nowadays the best way to Ultima 3 is the Fox Cunning mod for the NES port. Can even use the C64 soundtrack. Might not sound as good but it'll play better!

love it

I played ultima4 hat way on AtariST. Sound on computer, piano midi for songs. No roland tho... I wasn't that rich. Awesome vid, and hello from summer 2019

great video. It sounds really nice. Please could you dump the FB01 and make MID file with SYSEX which is possible to send to the Yamaha before starting the game?

Wow!

The FB-01 is underrated

I had a MIDI keyboard attached to my Atari ST mainly to listen to the Ultima music while working in my shop. I also had a MIDI keyboard attached to my PC for the DOS games. So, MIDI is nothing new, in fact, it has long since died.

Wow. Could you create some MP3s of these songs?

is that a cf card reader for the atari on the top right? only askign becasue i have an atari 1040 ste next to me of course ;) also an ultima fan but i started my ultima adventures with false prophet ultima 6 im probably younger by a bit would have been playing 3 but was probably still playing with transformers at the time

As someone that doesn't understand music/midi/the hardware can you tell me what hardware I'd need to buy (besides midi cables) to play this with my ST? I'm fascinated!! Thank you :)

Extremely cool footage. Would it be possible to use this in my own video about ultima series, with credits and a link to the video and channel?

Great sleuthing!

F*** your repetitions - your video sounds just superb. Love it !

I had no idea how to pronounce your name all that time on QuestStudios!

i hated the facxt no red bricks were used in the amiga , atari st versions..

Theres any way to use the Atari ST emulator with munt ?

My Sound Blaster cards in my Pentium II and my Pentium III PCs have MIDI built in. They have all 128 MIDI instruments on board.

My granddad said, the computers used to be as big as a house. I’m starting to believe him..

I played the NES one, it is easier in the comparison to this version. It seems ULTIMA took away and incorporated jrpg ideas and systems.

C64 version still sounds better😒