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[Kamudo]

I went to go check out this dead prequel, really to see where Dwarf Fortress came from, and mostly, it sucked.

The music was actually really amazing. Was it all created by Toady himself? It made me think of a perilous unending adventure mode game. Which is was Armok one pretty much was. I think.

[Toady One]

He he he, yeah, that was me.  It's weird to listen back to them.  The modified dates were all from 2002, so I guess I did those a year before I started playing the guitar.  I suppose midi was already out of date by then.  It would be fun to mess around with multi-instrumental stuff again, but I'm not even sure what people use these days when they don't have access to live musicians.

The title music is the same as the Dragslay title music from like...  1996 or something.  I guess that was a nostalgia thing for ourselves.  Actually, since you were curious to see the sucky beginnings of DF, here's the Dragslay music, he he he, my very first midi "songs".  There were also spoken parts (...), but those were VOC files and I'm not sure how to play them now.  The game itself doesn't run properly.

wilderness/town
regular battle
you died
dragon battle
undead battle
in the bar
title

[Creamcorn]

While you're at it, could you post the sound effects too?

[Footkerchief]

you died

The crash at the start of this one reminds me of the Liberty Island game over music from Deus Ex.

[Aqizzar]

Well, isn't this a boon; a musical window into Toady's development roots.  How ironic that I've been listening to videogame music all morning.

I love old MIDI music myself.  I even used to make some.  That they're even listenable and kinda catchy in an old arcade way is an accomplishment.

[qwertyuiopas]

It would be fun to mess around with multi-instrumental stuff again, but I'm not even sure what people use these days when they don't have access to live musicians.

There are countless programs, ranging from Free to Extremely Expensive. Ask anyone who actually knows one of them, and you will get a different answer from each person.
Of the free(and not free trial version) ones that I have seen(emphasis to make it clear to demitrolls that I know that it isn't the best), musescore seems fairly powerful without being incomprehensable, although it is primarily aimed at creating sheet music and the playback/save to audio features are far worse than more complex/expensive alternatives. It does do midi, though...

[Kamudo]

Wow, thanks Toady.

The music from Dragslay reminds me of my childhood. (I was 6 back in 96). So I missed the really early years of gaming/computers. But I at least grew up with the Nintendo.

But thanks for sharing, it does carry a lot of nostalgia with it.

[Captain Alchatron]

The bar music reminds me of the sailors' song in B&W (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0x4Kw_y4fg).  Sweet nostalgia!  That thing's been stuck in my head for years now.

[Toady One]

While you're at it, could you post the sound effects too?

I found a conversion site to get them out of voc, so here they are in mp3.

adventurer joins you in bar
adventurer turns you down (small skill diff)
adventurer turns you down (mid skill diff)
adventurer turns you down (large skill diff)
adventurer turns you down (Large skill diff)
blunt damage 1
blunt damage 2
weapon/armor breaks
parry
death 1
death 2
falling over
picking up item on ground during fight
goring damage 1
goring damage 2
"grimace" in pain
acid damage
cold damage
fire damage
hard strike (usually sever or flattening head into shoulders)
lightning damage (I guess?  sounds like lame fire damage)
miss
said occasionally by your buddies
said occasionally by kobolds (this was way back when we were treating them like the early dnd dog ones)
said occasionally by minotaurs
running away
slash damage 1
slash damage 2
lunged/winded
block
hit but no damage (common when fighting dragons with lame characters, punctuated by fire damage sound)
spell (not sure what this is in reference to...  temple of doom movie?  don't remember)

Armok music for completeness:

title
wilderness
combat
edit

[Footkerchief]

adventurer turns you down (Large skill diff)
death 2
goring damage 1
hard strike (usually sever or flattening head into shoulders)
lunged/winded

Haha, these are awesome.

[Aqizzar]

Those are the best and worst sound effects ever.  Voice-acted weapon strikes.  I love it.

Any thought of making another game that could use these?  (Or did I just guess the secret project?)

[Strife26]

*Aqizzar is suddenly banned and all traces of him are removed from the forum*

[Medicine Man]

I just have a question (Im not trying to be insulting):were some of the sounds made by using your mouth?

[Toady One]

Various mouths were involved, and a soda can and a penny I think.

[Medicine Man]

It sounds pretty good for various mouths,a soda can and a penny.