Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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I finally found the DOS FPS game I'd played the demo of as a kid!!! I could remember it being in 3D, with configurable sound card options, a kind of sci-fi æsthetic, some outdoor sections with brown being the predominant colour, but also prominant use of electric blue. based on those details I knew it had to be from the mid-to-late 90's. sure enough, it's Domination (1998), apparently also known Rex Blade: The Battle Begins.
playing it now, I understand why I didn't keep playing: it sucks
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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the reason i mention it in this thread is i figured it would have a General MIDI soundtrack, and it does. it has an SB16 OPL3 soundtrack, which sucks, and the option of General MIDI, which also sucks.
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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but one fascinating thing about Domination (1998) is that there's a "terminal" in the game, that you can walk up to. and it's an actual terminal! it looks like an Apple II, but it has cls, dir, help, system, ver, and some other stuff I forget, including: rex++, which is an honest-to-god fully-featured programming language??
let me remind you that this is a 3D shooty game. it's not even an action RPG!! what!!!!!
also DID THEY NAME THE MAIN CHARACTER (Rex Blade) AFTER REXX?????
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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i also made a chost™ https://cohost.org/hikari-no-yume/post/2716869-i-finally-found-an-o and a xhost™ https://twitter.com/hikari_no_yume/status/1698254427763655001 about this for those of y'all that are into that
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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WAIT IT'S EVEN MORE ABSURD THAT THIS IS IN THE DEMO VERSION
THIS IS NOT THE FULL GAME
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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uhh i should say shareware, it's "episode 1"
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ok i'm gonna record a video of it because i don't wanna make you have to download and play this game just to know more
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i've recorded it, encoded it and uploaded it, but it'll take half an hour or something before it's finished processing :)
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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video's up: https://youtu.be/cC8oECLUXzs
(it'll be in better bitrate in a couple of hours when youtube's finished ingesting my absurdly high-res upscale)
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Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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bonus tidbit re: Domination (1998): if you notice me messing up the typing in the terminal a lot , i promise it's not because i'm bad at typing. i think they actually implemented the horrible keyboard input handling that i think i've heard the Apple II has(?). WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS DELIBERATELY
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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impromptu Theme Hospital stream ... THE SEQUEL!! (i'm picking up where I left off yesterday
let's enjoy the General MIDI sounds of the Roland SC-7 together!
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eater
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@hikari british jumpscare when i opened your vod, I always forget that hikari von noyume is bri'ish and not swedish or internetlandish
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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@eater i apologise, my english accent seems to stubbornly remain my default one
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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come listen to some General MIDI grooves https://twitch.tv/hikari_no_yume
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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Maggie's branched out into industry 😔 https://twitch.tv/hikari_no_yume
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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i have written my first effect control SysEx MIDI message for my Roland SC-7!!! :3
i calculated the checksum by hand. the data was "00 00 00 00" so it was very difficult as you can see
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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taking my first, trembling steps into the wonderful world of music composition
https://soundcloud.com/hikari_no_yume/do-do-doot-doot-da-doot-doot
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eater
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@hikari the vibe of "I just opened Office Sim 1996 and am about to do some fraud"
eater
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@hikari oh, I only saw the music post in isolation, I was close I guess lol
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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@eater god that'd be a great pull quote. I haven't had any ideas for how to title this…
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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@eater there was no specific inspiration for the song, but the SC-7 does have a very early 90's sound, and I have been listening to a bunch of game soundtracks from that time on this, so I can't disagree with that description
Gerty Steinblatt
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Well done, seriously! <3
Ok I've been a professional musician for over 30 yrs & honestly I've heard so much worse from a whole buncha much more experienced folks.
And even though it's melodically & harmonically kind of awkward, there's a few sweet moves in there so you're totally headed in the right direction.
Also, rhythmically it's perfect & you've put the structure together beautifully. :)
You're obviously talented, please keep at it?
Ok unsolicited commentary over. :P <3
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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streaming me playing Theme Hospital again (with live, high-quality General MIDI synthesis from my Roland SC-7) https://twitch.tv/hikari_no_yume
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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aaaa i somehow resumed the previous game wrong and so i went back to the first level or something??? ;_;
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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impromptu DOOM (1993) stream, let's go
https://twitch.tv/hikari_no_yume
(with high-quality real-time General MIDI synthesis from my Roland SC-7)
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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I'm not very good at this game but it has good music and it's fun
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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i'm streaming me playing DOS games again! gonna play some more Theme Hospital and enjoy its General MIDI soundtrack, this time with my Yamaha QY70 doing the synthesis :3
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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stream over. this game is getting pretty difficult. turns out hospital layout might actually matter quite a bit