An hour of Sound Blaster music

[@ElVicioMan]

This is one of the best things i've discovered in a while 🙏

[@spearPYN]

Early 90s was the best time to be living in -- great Amiga and PC games and music, superb graphics when compared to 8-bit era, and this feeling your computer is infinite in possibilities. It is all gone now...now computers are just appliances for watching youtube.

[@matteoladio8500]

computers are no longer yours, you are the product, you can't trust your own computer and it decides what you can do and what you can't. Oh, and very cool stuff now is possible but forbidden

[@darak2]

It's amazing how every early music system had its pros and cons. FM music (Adlib/SB) had very poor percusion but deep pads. Tracker files had terrible memory constraints which favored percussion-heavy, repetitive music. Modules like the MT32 and MIDI boxed had incredible sound but were mostly limited to their preset instruments so most music sound samey. That makes every system have its own charm and be instantly recognizable.

[@wizofssp]

💯

[@JohnCrawford1979]

The games look better on the monitors they were intended for. Thank you for recording it this way to show what they looked like on the original hardware.

[@manuell3505]

Only 3:4 is enough. Any wide screen screws it up.

[@Risingson2]

@@manuell3505 aspect ratio+a pixel perfect conversion does it imitate it very well.

[@spearPYN]

Ultima VI intro is one the most legendary things ever created....I love it along with its superb music.

[@abletonreason]

This brings back memories of my dad installing a Sound Blaster 16 into our Packard Bell 486DX and playing the pack in games, Monkey Island and Loom. Such a fantastically nostalgic playlist!

[@Kai-p6b5r]

Thats my jam when walking back home while being drunk.

[@dosnostalgic]

This is my favorite comment of the year so far. 👍

[@RichHeimlich]

This brought back some great memories. Put me right back there. Thanks! (Author of the "Sound Blaster: The Official Book" series.)

[@ryanlockley9282]

I've watched this video probably 30+ times now, this gets me through writing my dissertation/thesis

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

Hope you graduated and are now working, my dude.

[@ryanlockley9282]

@@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180 I am, thank you! It took a year and a half to get a position though! 😅

[@almaelma11]

Hell yes. I needed this today thanks!

[@frogz]

....i cant like this because it would ruin 42 likes

[@TheInkPitOx]

I grew up on DOS games. So nostalgic.

[@fabian999ification]

43:12 SUPAPLEX!!! I remember my dad showed me this game, and I was hooked from day one. Great memories. Awesome graphics and sound, of course the fantastic music, and awesome gameplay.

[@Savuyar]

Great mix. I regularly return to it. Thank you!

[@MessiahProphylaxis]

Thank you DOS Nostalgia. Thank you indeed.

[@aleksandar_techtattoo6337]

Thanks for the masterpeace ! Thanks for the amazing quality! Thanks again and again for the file! I believe you have taken so much time to pull this quality of sound.

[@MrFlooperke]

Aaaaaaah yes missed those sounds, who needs wavetable when you got the raw opl2 sound. Thx for the dune tune also.

[@liberispuritatem]

You sure know how to achieve full nostalgia effect in your uploads, taking care of the presentation like that.

[@DVX_BELLORVM]

I would love for a musical theorist to explain to me how that Ultima VI opening theme at 26:35 is so damn evocative!

[@lorenzbeyer1809]

From looking at the score for 5 minutes: It's propably the combination of a simple chord pattern that varies just enough not to be boring, that makes it catchy and the droning which makes it evocative. The combination of an e drone and a digressing chord progression in measures 1-8 creates a nice tension an colorful harmonics. Measures 9-12 provide interesst by digressing from the drone principle. The second part repeats the same chord progression, but this time with an a drone in the middle of the voicing isntead of an e drone in the bass. Those are not exceptional techniques and there are lots of other examples applying the same musical principles, but this one is really nicely done. Happy to have found it today.

[@DVX_BELLORVM]

@@lorenzbeyer1809 Thanks! That's actually really interesting.

[@lorenzbeyer1809]

@@DVX_BELLORVM Glad you like it.

[@Karanagi]

Never heard it before in my life. Sounds fantastic!

[@punpcklbw]

Basso ostinato may do the thing. We can hear a rather simple Dm - Bb - C - Am arpeggiated chord progression in the beginning, but the bass note stays on D (ground bass). This nicely contrasts with the later part, as we proceed to Gm - Am - Dm - C - Bb - Am chords, the bass follows the root notes, rising up, then falling down.

[@kynrek]

Thanks, Great tunes to listen to while working. I appreciate the effort to get it captured on Real hardware!

[@berndp3426]

Also a former DOS kid here. 8 bit soundblaster was once a piece of tech.(already side-eyeing to those hyped cards with true OPL3's and Roland chips on them). And you know what: still running Yamaha's multichannel Y-SXG50v4 Player in registered mode on windows x64 today to play all what is around as MID file or similar in high quality (depends on used soundfonts mainly). Of course you have to re-install all those freeware software synthesis tools first because M$ stripped it off almost entirely. So I did. everything. Sfonts, VSTs, filters, effects, and various software synths to plug all this into. And it works nicely. Did anyone know that VLC player is capable of playing protracker files as well?

[@lunzueta78]

OMG all songs are great but Dune's chosen song is AMAZING!

[@Aitor1979]

Great vid! Thanks

[@theblacksheep1000]

THIS IS THE GREATEST HOUR EVER!

[@pedroroggla8129]

such an exquisite selection... perfect for playin some good old gems while chilling out

[@panteranegra5668]

I love this channel!!!! Congratulations!!

[@DigitalMusicXpress]

I love you so much for this, OMG, the memories

[@AaaSWE]

Fantastic. Geez, to hear that Monkey Island intro with original SB is just amazing.

[@LarsTragel-zh7ei]

Wow, I didn't expect Double Dragon 3 music on PC so cool.

[@dosnostalgic]

It's the only good thing about the port.

[@RotundRager]

Holy shit, D/Generation., I wasn't sure anybody else even remembered that game existed.

[@LambdaCalculus379]

Ahh, memories of OPL3... good times!

[@NightpireVideos]

Great playlist

[@dreamspheree]

So sweet sounding

[@stormthrush37]

OMG! Trippy. The very first song...exactly from what I thought it was from. Double Dragon 3 for the PC. That weird little game that you couldn't even quit, except by resetting the whole darned computer.

[@damsonn]

Roland blows SB out of the water, but somehow I feel the old OPL FM chip has its own charm. Great memories.

[@net_news]

yeah, OPL3 is pure nostalgia... very few people had an MT-32 back in the day, only musicians or very high end users. In fact, I only knew MT-32 users in the Atari ST community... in the PC world Adlib and Sound Blaster ruled.

[@davec1894]

Glad i stuck around long enough to experience 51:19 Trolls, what a bop!

[@rommix0]

(this music) GREETINGS, and welcome to another LGR thing!

[@MARCOPLAYSDOSGAMES]

Great my friend !!! A perfect music CD for my next holiday ...

[@FoxBoy1992]

I really want to play Alone in the Dark with FM synth.

[@theflep]

You are an angel.

[@AshtonCoolman]

Ther OPL2 and especially OPL3 were capable of far more sophisticated music than these games have. It's a shame that they were never used to their full potential.

[@Risingson2]

also most of the recordings in youtube have really bad encoding, so they don't sound as warm as the real cards sounded. You cannot say that the Dune soundtrack, which is the apex of that sound, is not sophisticated...

[@ThrakaAndy]

Thanks for this! Great to listen to this while working

[@AlonsoMontero]

My childhood!!!

[@WildBeret]

cool , double dragon and ultima sound great

[@joe--cool]

Wow, the drums on Larry VGA almost sound sampled.

[@keithbeesting]

Oh wow thanks for uploading

[@iswhatheis]

yo why the hell does that Double Dragon III song go so hard oh yeah it's Double Dragon

[@UXXV]

My man!

[@Belthazor31]

Lotus

[@phantasystar2k]

supaplex´s music is always so nice!" :D

[@panteranegra5668]

Thank you for It! 😁

[@phreeze83]

this is madness !

[@dosnostalgic]

Madness? This is Sp̶a̶r̶t̶a̶ound Blaster!

[@servusdedurantem]

skie or die man that was one of if not first pc game I played ( not counting amiga and commodor of course)

[@vv59]

Great video idea. Thanks !

[@offperception]

Awesome! Thanks a lot for this :)

[@Life-uh2db]

Wow well done

[@TheMedievalNerd]

LOL! The KGB music is just amazing.

[@jacobw446]

Tens of thousands of hours of human effort to make these songs... lost on the current generations.

[@scooperfield]

In early 90:s my friend had Sound Blaster (so cool name!) and I only had pc-speaker till - 97. It felt like magic: can computers do THAT?

[@joe--cool]

An Ultrasound or a MT32 would have blown you away :) Google for Wing Commander MT32... I still love that.

[@scooperfield]

@@joe--cool Thanks for the tip!

[@spearPYN]

Joe Cool I actually prefer Yamaha OPL sound than MT32.

[@ShuyaTheDark]

I've been trying to remember a game that looked a lot like Doofus, I just can't find it online. Maybe it was Doofus.

[@gatedfuzz]

this is what the doctor ordered

[@igorgiuseppe1862]

i know its a bit after the dos era, but can you upload the rpgmaker 2000 musics? its easy to find then... on other sound cards, but my childhood was with soundblaster

[@Sakanakao]

Nice mix.

[@gatedfuzz]

i could have sworn that first track from double dragon was the level one music from skate or die 2

[@Optimus6128]

5:58 Whenever you find something lewd on the internet

[@brunoblivious]

Awesome vid

[@FeelingShred]

Is that a CRT monitor? Maybe there's something that you could do that would be super useful. There's not much CRT/Tube monitor footage of Doom out there. It could be useful if you recorded CRT footage of some maps to demonstrate how the originals looked in terms of color palette and lighting, contrast, sharpness, etc, to compare with modern "source ports" (half of them are not even ports, are recreations from zero, different AI, RNG, etc...)

[@FeelingShred]

some of the maps that come off my head that would be important for this are Doom1: E1M2 (that maze section in the darkness) E2M6 (that maze section with wooden/brown walls, also good to highlight how Darkness was used in the original engines and how it looked on monitors of the time)

[@FeelingShred]

than for Heretic it would be E1M2 episode 1 map 2, that section with some corridors with varying degrees of darkness right after climbing up the stairs, green walls... modern "ports" ruin the atmosphere of that section

[@FeelingShred]

for Doom64 it's even rarer to find CRT footage, the recent "port" release of it it's so dark you can't see anything, and that's not how the original game looked on CRT TV's with A/V yellow cables at the time coming out of the console... but then for this one you would have to have access to a N64 :( because emulators don't output video in the same way TV's did, and I'm afraid they're using emulators nowadays for comparisons, which is alarming to say the least

[@GamingNostalgiaRemastered]

Anybody know where I can find the midi files for the game "Trolls"?

[@mibbleyt]

i want to hear some "Shut your mouth" remixed with soundblaster... ;(

[@kegelboy]

Here for Lotus, LSL1 and SQ1

[@설재훈-k9g]

도두다 듣기 좋네요

[@jsrodman]

OPL3 is *partially* compatible with OPL2.

[@dosnostalgic]

OPL3 was intended to be fully backwards compatible with OPL2, and despite a few differences here and there (waveform select, or envelope generator, etc.) when you instruct OPL3 just like OPL2, the difference is negligible at most. If you have any specific examples of OPL2 tunes sounding very different on OPL3, then I'm all ears.

[@FoxyThePirate]

Ear Candy 💙💙

[@SteveMassart]

Ultima VI ⚔️💪

[@Kastnerd]

Thanks

[@net_news]

please upload a FLAC version!!!

[@rutgerb]

35:14 i thought star wars started playing :o

[@mypkamax]

Rusty was on MS-DOS?

[@youngThrashbarg]

How do the colors look so good compared to just emulation on a modern computer?

[@dosnostalgic]

Mostly inaccuracies of recording with my cheap phone + your nostalgia bias

[@youngThrashbarg]

@@dosnostalgic In other videos that Ultima VI for example looks way worse. Could be the camera of course.

[@turrican4d599]

Lotus III made my ears bleed!

[@Trusteft]

Which release of LSL1 was used in this video? I don't remember that intro screen.

[@dosnostalgic]

"Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards" from 1991, the VGA remake. Original 1987 version of the game predates the Sound Blaster.

[@Trusteft]

@@dosnostalgic I am aware of the SB, which is partly why I asked what I asked. :) Never seen this version before. Thanks.

[@TheMedievalNerd]

only 4k views but 311 likes! That's an amazing ratio! :O (Make that 312)

[@kingvoxel6516]

Sounds like Sega Genesis music.

[@dosnostalgic]

Genesis uses a Yamaha YM2612 chip (aka OPN), which is OPL2's cousin.

[@kingvoxel6516]

@@dosnostalgic Genesis does what Nintendon't!

[@ghos7bear]

No Wacky Wheels? A shame.

[@Alianger]

Hey, were there any pre-1991 PC games with SB support and mod music?

[@dosnostalgic]

Can't really think of any off the top of my head.

[@WildBeret]

so if I have sound blaster card from recent years I mean now told one I will have a little diffrient sounding of those music tracks if I will use dosbox ?

[@dosnostalgic]

DosBox is emulation. In that case it doesn't matter what sound card you have. What matters is the version of the emulator, and what settings you have it set to.

[@earthsteward70]

Damn, some people actually used this card competantly.

[@FinleyZero]

[@brownbunnyrecords]

Is there an mp3 download available?

[@dosnostalgic]

I'll add it soon-ish.

[@dosnostalgic]

There is now

[@shelaghfitzwilliam9831]

​@@dosnostalgic🎉

[@danielborisov6892]

what is the game around 45:00?

[@noahbobrow]

Is there a list of the specific songs?

[@dosnostalgic]

In the video description

[@noahbobrow]

@@dosnostalgic thanks! I saw those and asked cause some of them weren’t returning the right results but I realized I needed to search for the dos versions specifically

[@WR3ND]

If you're going to record a screen, might as well make the best of it and make it relevant, like sitting and chilling out in front of a fireplace or something. Just saying.

[@dosnostalgic]

I think it is relevant because it's relevant to what music is playing. But your input is always appreciated.

[@iescobarjr]

why it isn't in stereo?

[@dosnostalgic]

All of the games target OPL2, which was a mono chip.

[@iescobarjr]

@@dosnostalgic got it, thank you!

[@KainXVIII]

Ween :3

[@loganjones4650]

No offense, but I'd enjoy this more if you recorded in a higher quality format than mp3.

[@RadoslavSharapanov]

Dune!

[@margon9181]

43:12

[@sbchman]

16:26

[@utqiagvik1991]

d-_-b

[@KulDeeSak]

Horrible selection. My grandma can do better .. and she has!

[@dosnostalgic]

Where can I see her compilation video?