Oh how i remember sitting by my friends computer all those years ago, playing the demo to this wonderful game. It was the game that lit the spark of a lifetime of love for computer gaming! Was around 10 years old then, now i'm 31, and i can almost remember it like it was yesterday... Such a wonderful thing... Thanks for bringing that feeling back =) Well done!
Thank you so much for making this and posting it! I love this old sound and I was afraid I'd only find the cleaner MIDI versions here. Playing this game as a kid made me better at music...I'd always be whistling the melodies and arpeggios at recess (well before I understood those terms).
what I respect most on this game is it's originality and the fact that it's not a sell out title. to me the best of the trilogy, btw with one of the most brilliant OSTs ever made for a video game, couldn't be better. (def way better than CD ver)
+soylentgreenb Warcraft 1 is the original RTS. So with regards to that, it didn't copy anything. And if you want to go down that path of saying Warcraft copied Warhammer in terms of fantasy or story (which it certainly did in some aspects) then you can say Warhammer copied Lord of the Rings. Pretty much all modern fantasy stuff started with Lord of the Rings.
+Decompiler Shortly after I asked that question I went hunting for the music, and sure enough the CD had tracks on it that you could listen to just by popping it in any old CD music player. The weird thing is that Warcraft itself seems to be unable to _use_ those tracks during play, unlike the second game. That explains why I never knew about those tracks.
@slashingraven I believe the CD audio tracks were only used by the Macintosh version, in the cases of duel MS-DOS / Mac combo discs. Warcraft 2 allowed use of the audio tracks in both versions.
I wish I could just extract that part in MP3. With my old computer I recorded it but didn't realise the music was stereo so I'm missing some sounds from one channel. :(
Lol I also had a Tull (well Anderson) Song come to mind: orc 3 sounds quite a bit like fly by night, despite being faster. I get a feeling that the OTS composer might be quite the prog rock fan in general, with all the odd time signature changes.
17:45 - Brings back the memories from when I was 9 (I'm now 33) desperately trying to repel Demons cutting through my ranks and the scream "Aaaaghh!" echos. Clenched teeth, trying to aim those bastard catapults.
Thanks! I wish games still use FM music. I think game music should be game music and nothing else. OPL technology could have kept on improving for game use but real recorded instruments spoiled gamers.
a good example for a brilliant using of fm patches / timbre by the AIL Driver ) Miles Sound System, this corresponding fm bank should be should more often in games with orchestred arrangements, Greets from a FM synthesis fan
When Greg Alper and I compiled the official SC-55 version of the soundtrack (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H5QVHzaGfQ8.html), he told me that Blizzard originally wanted him to actually arrange Gustav Holst's Planets, but he thought it would be better to compose original music in the same style.
This sounds absolutely amazing, I've never heard Adlib/SB FM music sound so crystal clear! Way better than the generic SB clone I had in my 486 back in the '90s. Oh the nostalgia; thanks for the download link too :-)
Had this game in 1998, and probably haven't played it since 1999 or 2001 at the absolute latest. The one and only track to stick with me through the years since I've last played it is Human Theme 1 (07:53). I absolutely love it! We had an AWE32 sound card, so I was used to the sample based Rolandish version of the track. But I am huge fan of FM, and the YMF242 (OPL3) is just a monster of a chip (the majority of my experience with FM comes from the YM2612 (OPN2) in the Sega Genesis, which itself is a very capable, competent chip - this one is far more so). After having listened to the FM version here, I am confident that I like it better than the Roland version.
Yea I agree with the other comments. This sounds way better than the CD version. Thanks for posting, really hard to find the actual game ripped soundtrack :D
Oh god. I remember when I was a kid and we had a computer with a Sound Blaster 16 and 3D Blaster something (a big yellow card) with 4 mb memory. Dad bought it so he could play Doom 2 (it lagged like hell on the computer before). I played a lot of WC and WC2 (and WarWind) back then. Such simple times, no work, no obligations ...
Which version/renderer do you people like the best? ◾ OPL3 version (Orc Theme 3) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RJEEzj-UT5Q.html ◾ Roland SC-55 version (Orc Theme 3) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H5QVHzaGfQ8.html ◾ Gravis Ultrasound version (Orc Theme 3) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X9oTzK4mKkw.html ◾ Arachno SoundFont version (Orc Theme 3) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JTTCIn1s3Cc.html ◾ Unknown version (Orc Theme 3) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OTZ8yh2dez0.html
I heard this before the Beethoven song. It blew my mind when I heard it. BTW, which Beethoven song again? (I’ve heard it but of course can’t remember any names) EDIT: it’s the Für Elise
This will save me from my intended recording of the SB16 version (might as well not record something already done). Recently, I recorded the entire SC-55 version with a real Roland SC-55 (which is the original intended version and of which 6 tracks were recorded for the cd-audio soundtrack) -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H5QVHzaGfQ8.html
Leaving this here in case I'm just imagining it/malfunctioning: At 17:02 should sound the other part of the "flute". It doesn't!! There's a trumpet leading on this section and it's silent until 19:55. This might be an audio problem on my part. If not, what just happened??
I just ran the MP3 of Human 2 that I had and plays normally. I ran the video and it's still there! It's very improbable that the video "missed" a note, so the only explanation would be that Mr. Lindberg uploaded a new video with midi issues (missing notes).
I know the Ultrasound versions are technically "better" but I think the OPL3 really defined this generation of DOS games and this version is the definitive one for WC.
Hello friend! Very nice sound! Please tell me, how you record this music directly after the first Op-Amp? Sound is very clean, SNR is excellent!!! If you can, please give me small FAQ for this.
This soundtrack confuses me- I remember listening to all of the old warcraft music, but I seem to remember being able to play the gameplay disc in a CD player... Is this that same music, but played through an old sound card or something?
Was there a particular benefit (other than it being easier) of recording analog audio from the op-amp as opposed to recording digital audio from one of the other ICs?
maybe with a soundfont that reproduce awe32 (and a software that play midi with a soundfont like XMPlay) but sadly I don't know where to find this kind of soundfont...
Could you please update the description with some kind of download link, directly to the music, please? I would like to carry this soundtrack with myself, over my phone. Thanks!
Ok my wording was a bit crap there, what I meant to ask was if it meant that the music was made for OPL3, or if this or others could be an OPL2 soundtrack playing on an OPL3 chip. I'd like to know how to distinguish between OPL2 and OPL3 music besides checking the sound options for each game. Some OPL2 games had stereo support, making it more tricky. Here's a list I found which might be incomplete: 1990 Christmas Card - The Seasoned Professional B-17 Flying Fortress Castle of Dr. Brain Conquests of the Longbow David Leadbetter's Greens DragonsSphere EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus (patch) F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 Formula One Grand Prix Gunship 2000 Harrier Jump Jet Hoyle's Official Book of Games Volume 3 Jones in the Fast Lane King's Quest V (patch) Leisure Suit Larry 5 Leisure Suit Larry 1 VGA Lord of the Rings Volume 1 Lord of the Rings Volume 2 Mixed-up Fairy Tales Mixed-Up Mother Goose (patch) Pirates! Gold Police Quest III Quest for Glory II (patch) Return of the Phantom Sid Meier's Civilization Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon Deluxe Space Quest I VGA Space Quest IV (patch) Special Forces Strike Commander
When a FM soundtrack is playing in stereo so is it almost always OPL3, but as you say so are some OPL2 games having stereo also and that means the game supports dual-OPL2, the OPL3 is basically 2 OPL2 built in one chip.
good work but the tracks are not really being recorded from the very beginning of each track. For example in human 2 and human 3. Good work again but the tracks are not completed, would appreciate it if you can record them again correctly.
