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Re: Gaming: Amiga vs PC - Sierra Titles etc
« on: October 15, 2012, 02:30:46 AM »
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Though if you compare, the Roland MT-32 just blew anything the Amiga had for Sierra Games's musics.  Good one I like to listen to is King's Quest 4.
Yeah, I've gotta try some games with my MT-32, now that I've got a MIDI interface for my Amiga...
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/MT-32/D-10, Oberheim Matrix-6, Yamaha DX7/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini, Ensoniq Mirage/SQ-80, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600, Hohner String Performer

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Re: Gaming: Amiga vs PC - Sierra Titles etc
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2012, 04:23:03 AM »
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Hmmm, might have to find a midi interface for my pc and amiga and keep an eye out for a cheap MT-32!
Keep an eye out; mine was ~$50 with shipping, and worth every penny. Gets the kind of sweet, warm filtered tones you find on a vintage analog synth, plus quality PCM samples where they're useful...beautiful.

Now I just need to start playing around with making my own patches...wish there were better software for this than Roland's ancient Win3.1 patch-librarian software...
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/MT-32/D-10, Oberheim Matrix-6, Yamaha DX7/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini, Ensoniq Mirage/SQ-80, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600, Hohner String Performer

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Re: Gaming: Amiga vs PC - Sierra Titles etc
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2012, 08:57:51 PM »
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This reminds me of the time I was able to fire up my Atari ST and connect it to my MIDI keyboard to output the sound from King's Quest (I think it was the first one, though I'm not 100% sure on that.)  It was fantastic!
Heh...I tried this on my Win95 box, back in the day...it had an Ensoniq board with sort-of-halfway Sound Blaster compatibility, and for some reason it could run music that went through the emulated Sound Blaster MIDI drivers out over the MIDI port - but the game's music used CMF (custom FM patches) so the instruments were all wrong :roflmao:
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
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Re: Gaming: Amiga vs PC - Sierra Titles etc
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2012, 12:06:59 AM »
You know, it wasn't the copious and frequent death in Sierra titles I minded - it was the utter off-the-wall moon logic that they often functioned on. You have to make sure to eat the mutton, not the pie, because a dozen screens later you're going to need the pie to kill the yeti? HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT!? Let the cat catch the rat and a full quarter of the game later you're a dead man because the rat won't save you? The list goes on and on and on...the bizarre part is that, for all it revels in comedy deaths, the Space Quest games (at least the ones I've played) are some of the lesser offenders.

Was Roberta Williams brought up in Cloud Cuckoo Land, or something?
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/MT-32/D-10, Oberheim Matrix-6, Yamaha DX7/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini, Ensoniq Mirage/SQ-80, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600, Hohner String Performer

"\'Legacy code\' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling." - Bjarne Stroustrup