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Hey everyone! A couple of days ago I remastered the iconic Monkey Island theme (from TSOMI) Back in the early 90's, the OPL3 soundchip was the core of many well-known and popular audio cards such as the Sound Blasters. Unfortunately, mostly for compatibility reasons, the OPL3 was rarely used as its full potential and sounded like a "mere" OPL2 (Adlib). In this remaster, I tried to demonstrate how OPL3 music can sound, when used as its full potential. Monkey Island theme - AdLib VS Soundblaster I'm seriously thinking about remastering the entire soundtrack this way. Worth it? 😄

Hi there, as one of the guys who actually bought the LimitedRun Loom release, I would like to tell you exactly what is in this package and what not: - USB Stick: There's a "loom.exe" and a ReadMe file on it. The "loom.exe" will install the VGA CD-talkie version of Loom like it is available on Steam or GOG. And only this version. No EGA, FM Towns, AMIGA, Mac, whatever different version on there. - CD-ROM Disc: Exactly the same content as the USB stick. No EGA, FM Towns, AMIGA, Mac, whatever version on it. Only the known CD-talkie release. - Soundtrack Audio-CD: The known soundtrack (probably performed by an Roland MT-32 soundcard) and an alternate version of the soundtrack (sounds like being performed on a lower quality MIDI wavetable soundcard, the quality is also less good than the MT-32 soundtrack). Last song is a short version of the Indiana Jones theme (yes, for whatever reasons). On the jewel case, there is a data track mentioned but there is none on the CD (maybe the label package was simply copied from the original LucasArts CD release where track 1 was the data track. - Audio-drama Audio-CD: On track 1 there is the japanese version of the audio drama, on track2 the English original version. On the following tracks there is the soundtrack of the audio-drama with no speech. There are no other language versions of the audio drama (no German version for example, which does exist). - The original manual - The original Book of Patterns on a more sturdy paper than the original release. - The original red copy protection "glass" (which is btw never needed because this Loom release does not have the old copy protection) - Loom logo patch - A two sided poster So all in all this release is not worth mentioned to be a "collector's edition". It is missing a lot and is looks a bit like being "copied together what is available on the Internet already". It only has the (worse) Steam/GOG VGA talkie release and misses the sough-after original EGA release (not to mention the rare VGA FM-towns floppy version or the releases for other platforms), and it misses all versions of the audio drama. All in all it's not a release worth buying if you still have the original package from 1990.

Thank you for sharing your story! You’re welcome to write it in the comments section of the video as Annie reads the comments. Plus, the premiere is still on and she’s currently in the live chat!

Personal aside: Annie and David were both instrumental in me getting into programming, writing not one, but three of the first books I read on the topic. A few years later I first played Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken, and although I noticed "David Fox" in the credits, I didn't even realize the connection to those early programming books of theirs until a few years ago. 😁

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Nope... iMUSE doesn't have any tempo specific hooks or markers. It's possible to change the tempo from SCUMM, but that was rarely done. All of the MIDIs (just checked) have initial tempo as standard MIDI meta events, as well as tempo changes when applicable (see fourth purple line): iMUSESequencer scan for standard MIDI system messages in all files from FOA - all of them have at least one tempo (initial or change) - labelled "set-tempo" here (excerpt): However, only the first track in an iMUSE MIDI will have an initial tempo - because none of the other tracks are independently played - they will all follow in some kind of sequence from the first track. Hence, Misty doesn't include any tempo in the split MIDI files, except for the file created from the first track - because it has no way of knowing what that initial tempo should be for the others: If the tempo changes halfway through track 1, and iMUSE then happens to jump to track 2, then the tempo of track 2 will be that changed tempo, not the initial tempo. ETA: Haven't checked FOA specifically, because I'm not that familiar with FOAs MIDIs - which ones use iMUSE heavily and which don't. But here's an example from the DOTT opening titles - DOTT uses a different version of iMUSE ("v2"), so it actually also does include initial tempo on all tracks (which Misty would then also include in the split MIDIs). But other than that, this is an example of the tempo being changed, and then conditionally jumping to track ("chunk") 6 (actually, 7 - unlike Misty, iMUSE Sequencer (and iMUSE itself) counts tracks from 0). Tracks 2-5 are used for delaying the theme when a platform is too slow at loading the graphics for the next part of the title sequence.

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Thanks for the information! I've send them a message about my pre-order.

Okay, I have opened my box and retrieved the USB Drive and the game-disc CD. Both media have seemingly the same "Loom.exe" file of 273 MB, which does an auto-install of seemingly just one Loom game folder. I see: Loom --Loom ----901.LFL ----902.LFL ----903.LFL ----904.LFL ----CDDA.SOU ----DISK01.LEC --Loom.exe --testapp.exe (which so far seems to just run Loom) --unins000.dat --unins000.exe And after having the game open, I couldn't not recall what button combination may tell what version the game/scumm may be. It also wasn't in the manual. And finally, my google-fu has failed me. I cannot see how to find the version number (unless perhaps I download DREAMM?)

I wrote a whole bunch below but then found this direct link, which I suggest you use now and get a quick update. LRG and Purple Dot - Update/Shipping Lookup If you don't get the shipping info that you expect, I'd say reach out with the link I wrote further down. ------ I suggest you reach out to the "Purple Dot" group, as mentioned on their new shipping initiative FAQ. LimitedRunGames and Purple Dot shipping From the FAQ: "You are even free to reach out to them directly for an independent update on your pre-order." --- Good luck!!

Making progress "Fettucini Brothers" are now OPL3 remastered!