Ultima Online Soundtrack (Sound Blaster AWE64 [AWE32 Synth]) 

I might be doing other videos of this soundtrack on other sound cards in the future.

20 years later I'm still waiting for an online game that makes me feel like this one made me feel.

We were the mercenaries. We were the mages. We were the tamers, the tanners, the tactics. We WERE Ultima Online. Be present and be proud of that. THIS soundtrack is a lifetime of memories compressed into an hour. For those who were there, we salute you. x

People who weren’t there when this was cutting edge and new can’t possibly understand how mind blowing it was to load up for the first time and see 30 other real people doing their own thing at the bank

After UO, not a single MMORPG gave me so much fun,joy and excitement. I played lots of games and for a lot of time, but my heart still remains in UO. I know if I start playing it now, I Wont have same feelings like I used to and its sad. Just remember every fight you had and if you die you literally loose all your gear and stuff in backpack and back then it was ok, nowadays imagine loosing all raid gear in Wow.

GM Steele here..... god these songs take me back... like another life

Tears. This game was everything to me between 1997-1999. In it, I had everything that I didn't have in real life. Friends whom I cherished and who cherished me, cozy home, a sense of adventure, exploration and purpose.

Decades later, UO soundtracks calm me. I keep coming back to them. Sometimes play then when I sleep.

I remember making my character, coming up with a name. Then just getting plopped into the world...figure it out. Find your way, there was no guide, there was no tutorial, you just poked around through menus and wandered and explored a world you have never been in before to this magnitude. Slowly you carved out a personality and an identity for yourself. You became a miner, a blacksmith, a tamer. It was seemingly endless.

To this day... there is not a single game, that can fill the place of UO in my heart. So many incredible memories, friendships, that became real life friendships. Big part of the people in my life, I met because of UO, whether they directly played it, or were just friends of friends I played UO with. I can say, I met my current fiancee because of UO, because my friend I used to play UO with, had a girlfriend, and she was her friend. So I probably wouldnt have met her if it wasnt for UO. Truly amazing times and memories, when I hear the soundtrack I feel very emotional and nostalgic!

Its bitter sweet to listen to these knowing my son will never experience such a game and that I can never go back. Truly a different time of gamers. Before the Dark Times. Before the Empire.

This was a special, special game that delivered an experience like no other I've ever had in the 20+ years since this game game out. This game was magic, plain and simple, and I doubt anything like that will ever be created again.

So many memories.... Stones2 is my favourite UO music. Flashbacks, i can still hear the how the bank ''squeak''

I want to make my bow to the very best game of my childhood, this is gonna be a long one. I dont really remember what age i had at the moment that my brother gave me his account with a shitty ass character, i probably was 8-10 years old, maybe less. I remember been super hooked to stone2 song, man i love that song. I was so little and didnt had any clue of anything, but this game man, this game got me hooked instantly: the music, the landscape, the unknown... oh boy the unkown.. those emotion were pretty damn big for me Everything was so emotionally new.. taming horses, collecting cotton, fishing, mining, blacksmithing, magic spells, fist fighting, swordmanship.. the list was virtually endless.. the tryhard mode to upgrade those skills... dude you could even make a god damn HOUSE, are you serious?? you could fucking own a piece of this virtual world... this game surely made me a really curious man. I dont really understand how they could made this game so immersive, so beautiful, so full of life, i mean, 1997 dude, the only thing i know is that those developers must had loved this game more than any of us players combined, just imagine the time taken to build those maps, the entire world, the playability man, those endless frightening ever stronger creatures, its just a miracle, i learned about life, about gettin tryhard on things, i used to collect logs, one by one upgrading that lumberjacking 0.1% at a time, that taught me to have respect and patience to the due process, and that if you want to master anything.. man that takes time, effort, frustration and a lot of damn repetition.. but if you are determined enough and willing to put in the time, you are going to see some results.. then i tinkered those logs into blank scrolls, lol added value theory in a nutshell.. someone told me that he could pay me a salary for them, a 8-10 years old boy with a salary, man i felt so grown up LOL, i put the time and effort into it, because hey, someone was willing to pay me for my job! but that man was the first dude that scammed me, i didnt know that you could sell those blank scrolls to the npc for a higher price (because obviously not all npc bought them, besides me being so naive), the guildmaster of that dude told me, i felt so robbed man, was literally months of paychecks, hahaha.. i still remember his nickname, it was NabucodonosoR, he felt sorry for me and let me join his guild, XandeR was the mf that scammed me, but no hard feelings, after all hey, we were guildmates with a fucking gigantic castle on the middle of the snow going on wild guild adventures... it is so beautiful seeing back, how this fucking awesome game created a world for all of us, that rush of adrenaline right in your heart when someone were about to murder you, felt so real, then you lost all the things that you have worked for.. it took me a while to know how to use the bank so those losses were unnecesarily painful LOL. I remember that we used to have that shitty ass internet, where you had to choose between being hooked on the internet or the telephone, both wasnt an option, my parents used to nagged me so much because i literally played this game all day long with so much joy. i had so many friends on ultima, it made me loss some "real life friends" at that age, but i put the quotes because i never felt this any less REAL.... thank you all for making this game so beautiful, love you all man.. THANKS to you Michael.. for uploading those memories on my brain again and that hell of a ride to the past (:

Man, this makes my eyes tear up lol. No one these days can appreciate what an amazing world UO was.

The fact that there is dust on the card makes it even better :D

UO was more than a game. It was a life style. I was living in Britain and fighting on the bridge. Sometimes i made crime and sometimes fought it. It was more fulfilling than real life.

I remember discovering Ultima 8 when I was 12 and fell in love with it. When Ultima Online came out, I was 14, I reserved a copy and bought it. Within a week my entire circle was playing it. It still has a special place in my heart, I only played for a few years, never really played any other games after that. I still remember staying up the first few weeks mining ore in Minoc, then losing all the armour I made because the dial up internet cut out and an Ettin got me. Frustrating but still fun as hell.

To have been there, and had the joy of playing this when it was still new, and fresh is a privilege. I know I cannot go back, and that the gaming world will never go back to this. What happened to you, Golden Age of MMORPGs? Warcraft. Warcraft happened.

2019 and very often I still work listening to this whole soundtrack. It gives me focus and peace of mind =)

To be honest somehow the opening soundtrack is the most magical and relaxing soundtrack ever created :)

I dearly miss this era of gaming, it was definitely magical. I'd kill to find this experience again now..

It was 1997 - 2000, the dimly lit smoked filled computer room, the whirring of the cpu fan that was slightly off balance, bags of junk food around me, my wife telling me it was time to come to bed, but I was too focused on staking out the lower levels of dungeon Shame to PK noobs and plunder their corpses to hear her. It was magical and it was good. It is probably a good thing I left when they porked it in 2000 or my marriage would have ended. Listening to this music brings back a myriad of memories. Thanks!!!

Can someone put this sound track on Spotify so we all can listen to it anywhere? This is me requesting it in 2021.

I almost cried. Best my youth gaming memories. Fuck CS, Fuck DOTA. hours, days, spent in great world of britan. I started playing Life Is Feudal:MMO, if we exclude 3d, 70% of the mechanics are 100% same as the old "sphere" type UO. I love it now, but its not the same. Thank you for the great midi, i will share it with my friends, i know they will hardly hold a tear of joy and nostalgy.

Even though it's not a part of the music, I can hear the chopping of wood and the mining of ore anytime I listen to this music. So many memories tied into these songs.

Listening to this again after so many years, and now grown up, I can hear melodies from English folk songs like John Barleycorn, and The Agincourt Carol, something that I didn't notice when playing the game over two decades ago, but now it's going to keep me coming back to listen again. Thanks for this wonderful upload.

Minoc hits me hard. I played T2A a bunch of times at a friend's house when I was 11 or 12 before getting it myself. We spent our noob days in Minoc, hitting up Covetous and killing wandering healers for gold. Played retail through AoS. Incredible memories.

Vesper was our guild HQ town. Our colors were purple and black. The sounds and the music are more real than half of my "in real life" childhood.

Remember the first day you played. It was like real world, wasn’t it? My best friends are still from UO. Nobody will understand what we feel when we listen to this. Especially the new generation...

vendor buy the guards a bank

At the age of 13, I slaughtered thousands of men, innumerable hordes of creatures and demons, ghouls and dragons. I amassed great wealth, power and skills of a Grand Master, I had a villa that overlooked the jungle... I died many deaths in a single lifetime. I was reborn and reborn again. I have seen much and have lived as a God. Now, I am 30. And looking to life to fulfill me, nevermore.

This is where our precious memories lies, dusty and slowly fading away.

I robbed entire UO houses while enjoying this soundtrack. So many memories of unfettered mayhem.

Please blow the dust off that card. It serves the divine now, and dust is hurting it. We will want this music 300 years from now.

2 of my uncles would tell me the craziest stories about UO at almost every family gathering, i liked the ones about them taming dragons together.

Man hearing Moonglow again kills. I miss this old game so much. I have an old Soundblaster card sitting on my shelf :)

i almost cry listening. Very good job

00:17:18 I started as a lumberjack in Yew back then. Memories...

I remember the first time playing this game and went into the forest to explore and saw an Orc thinking I can fight it, boy that was a bad idea.

Because the card had onboard ram memory and the ability to load and store custom sound font sample sets, (and Ultima online took advantage of this) A games music composer could specify and create a unique custom wavetable of sound samples that matched there artistic presentation intensions they where not stuck with the generic bank of standard Midi samples sounds.

Ahhh. Take me back. Please take me back. I don't belong in a corporate controlled internet world. I wanna go back to the wild west. I wanna go back!!! We didn't appreciate what we had. Napa Valley soldiers. I salute you!!

:( 2019 ve ben hala özlüyorum

Ah good old Minoc - as it was intended.. and remembered. :D

new character, grinding in the GY... fight is going well, and then.. a lich a lich a lich *samlethe plays*

Flashbacks of running as a ghost to the healers in Britannia...

Been gaming for 35 years and this still holds up as one of the ONLY GAMES I didn't mute the music for. I'm looking to get my hands on all the sound effect files for this game so I can make a custom beat via samples from Ultima Online but I'm not sure how to access all the sound effects. I know how to access the music files but none of the sound fx. If anyone has or can get me the sound effects for the game it would be awesome if you could email them over to me!

I think my family paid extra for a premium awe creative sound card back in the day. Back in the Gateway store, remember that? With the little cow hide symbol on the computer. I’m glad we did. Money well spent.

I played on Europa from 98 until about 2002. My main characters were Weaselmode and WeaselmodeII :)

This is so nostalgic that makes me wanna cry.

Tis a balm to a weary mind. One that yearns for a simpler time.

Was searching for Ultima sound tracks and stumbled across your channel. Have a lot of great content and I feel my weekend will be filled. Thanks for sharing

+1 ULTIMATE NOSTALGIC! AWE + UO !~ HAD BOTH THE AWE32 AWE64

I remember playing this at my dad's friend's house when I was very young. I played on her account and didn't really know what I was doing, but the game seemed awesome. Ever since then, I wanted to play it. So shortly after that I bought UO at a store somewhere but didn't know I had to pay for a subscription (we were kinda poor) so I never ended up playing it. However, I now own all the Ultima games on GOG and I want to eventually get around to playing through all of them! The music in these games is so good.

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for those interested a new seige perilous style server just opened up about 2 weeks ago and its lively.

I lived in Moonglow because of the music 😁.

I think the dust on the Sound Blaster Card adds an additional layer of nostalgia. Thanks.

Ultima music full of memories.I miss you then

I just started playing this game about a day ago. The music.... what can I say. I think I've never heared such beautiful music in an MMORPG for a long long time. I'm really excited to play this game and see what it offers. Until now it is very unique and a completely new experience.

Vendor buy the bank some guards!

This brings back so many beautiful childhood memories..

RIP UO Sonoma 98-2008

Para ganking....I should be ashamed of myself but it was just so much fun!

懐かしい人生の一つであった。 淋しい音楽に聞こえてしまいますね

We all were in so much pain as kids and found solace in UO. Cheers friends.

7x GM. still best accomplishment in my life.

あれから23年か長生きしたもんだ

wow, this sure brings back memories

love the zoom in to the chip. God bless the Sound Blaster.

Really wish someone would clean the audio on this to remove the background hissing/noise, I absolutely love this music but after I noticed that it ruined the video for me, please OP make the audio clean!

I remember when all that mattered each day was when I got to get home and play uo. 4 hours sleep no problem!

This music stills gives me chills when i hear it. Good memorys of playing all night, sleep couple hours, then keep playing :)

Holy fuck the nostalgia is killing me. I'm 14 again!

The OG RuneScape before RuneScape was a thing

OMG, so happy I found this.

programming has increased by 0.1% it is now ... i love work with this "video".

Played as Blackarrow on Europa shard. No other MMO (pre-trammel) could touch the experience UO gave us. DAoC was the only other MMO that was fun. All others lost their luster the moment they never measured up. Now prepare yourselves for we are in the last years of the Fig Tree generation. Christ is Lord. Feast of Trumpets is the time no man knows the day or hour.

why am i crying..

Great memories ..... I miss those days.

I always tear up when I hear the first song. I awe everytime how great of a game this is and was back in launch. The slow pace with skill gains did not feel forced and took months to GM a single skill and it didn't feel bad at all. Nowdays games die within first month cause there is nothing to do.

Ah, that's the stuff! So many years spent in the wilderness of Britannia, but it has past away beyond all recognition from my day.RIP, classic UO!

Let’s try Sound Blaster 16🎉 and 14.4K modem and Sphere server to run UO

They need to remake and release this game exactly how it was. From a time when games were about freedom and fun.

I'll never forget earning my way to 2nd largest bounty for PKing on the server. Good times...

I am not crying...You are!!!!

Ah, nostalgia! Thanks for making/uploading this.

THIS MADE ME ALL WARM AND FUZZY INSIDE

"Oh there is another player in the Britain Graveyard! Hello good fell-" *KAL VAS FLAM* Black and white screen. "Oh hey friend, I want to show you my new weapon! It's amazing, wait I have it in the backpack. Where it is? I can't find it? MAybe in the bank?" Hidden thief: *yoink* Ah good times. If any of you knows a good server I'm glad to try it! I want something before Bushido and company (Renaissance or the time where they put Chivarly and Necromancy) and if there is some customization is good!

How many of you died to a rabbit on your first day?

22 years ago❤..

grinding swordsmanship skill hitting the bone knight day and night

Can't replicate that past... although i don't miss the dial up

Many memories sneaking downstairs at 2am booting up the computer, hiding the loud modem under my shirt to conceal the loud connecting noise and start up this magnificent game just so that I could get in some easy mining in the Brit pass without getting pk'd. I miss you Chesapeake!

Lat gruk wat meeb blahin oomie?

I played all of the Ultima's...except Ultima Online. I think 3, 4, and 5 were my favorites. Oh, and the 2 Ultima Underworld games. Played all of them up to #4 on my Apple IIe with a Phasor sound card. #5 and the later ones on IBMs starting with a 486 DX2 33Mhz...pretty sure it was an AWE 64 for the sound card....I think. I was always upgrading. The final iteration of that one was a 486-DX4 100Mhz. Was faster than the entry level Pentiums at the time. That 486 is long gone, but I still have the Apple with all the extras boxed up. I still have all of those Origin games and more too. Original boxes with all of the goodies. Cloth maps, metal ankhs, etc. Some of the games can be downloaded for free now. I tried Ultima 4 recently. It was cool, but just not the same feels as it was back in the day. The memories are better. :-) Except for that annoying memory management crap with Ultima 7. lol...ahh the good OL days. :D

Please make your AWE happy by giving it a puff of pressurized air.

The SB AWE series are truly awesome cards. I have both a SB64 AWE Gold and a Roland SC-55, but I prefer to play MIDI on the AWE without any hesitation. BTW I released DOSMid v0.9.4 today - lots of bugfixes and GUS support! dosmid.sourceforge.net

playing them synced with my sc-88 they compliment each other well.

the best game ever. worst part was getting PKd =|