[Archangel]

I'm sorry I haven't been very active in this thread. I've been pretty busy, but I'll see if I can find some time tonight to update the first post and put things in order.

It's good to see that people are still interested in this!

[evktalo]

Originally Posted by Melbu Frahma

EDIT: Well, I found tons of places where you could download the game, but only one decent Youtube video with it strangely in mono. Anyone who wanted to remix it would probably be better off just downloading the game and listening to it in its originality, lol, but that'll at least give you a taste of it.

Looking at the video description, it's an Atari ST game.

I'm hoping to get to render & wip-threadize my updated Deus Ex track from PRC199 soon, ish.

--Eino

[Melbu Frahma]

Originally Posted by evktalo

Looking at the video description, it's an Atari ST game.

It was also released for Windows, though, and the soundtrack's the exact same.

Or are we doing PC-exclusives? I didn't see that in the first post, but I might've missed it.

[evktalo]

That's been discussed a couple of times in the thread already, though I don't recall what Archangel thought. In my opinion a tribute to PC game music on OCR, the mix should be from a game that gets posted as a DOS or Windows game. That'd make sense (again IMO) if the game was first released on PC, or the soundtrack was distinct for the PC version.

Not that posting on OCR always worked like that, there was a Prelude mix early on that got posted as a FF5 ReMix to get a first FF5 ReMix on the site, and recently a Fallout 3 ReMix was marked as a PS3 game to get a first PS3 ReMix.

I personallt think ports should not count. There's a lot that I've played on PC that I'd like to remix some day (Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions, Zeliard, Slipheed) but are originally from Amiga or PC8001 or arcades or something. That wouldn't really feel like a tribute to PC games for me.

--Eino

[Trism]

Sorry if this has already been asked (I had a look in thread but didn't find an answer); is a track only eligible if it's pre-2000 or can tracks actually from 2000 be accepted?

[Archangel]

Games released in 2000 are still OK. Someone's already planning on making a Diablo II track, and that game was released in 2000.

I should add this to the first post. It's come up more than a couple of times, I think.

[Groboclown]

I just noticed this thread. I posted out a remix of:

Little Big Adventure 1 (it was released as Relentless in the States)

and

Star Control 2

Both need a lot of love, though.

[Argle]

I'm puttin this on my to-do list. DOS games need love too.

[Mazedude]

I'm afraid I have no free time to contribute to this just now, but wanted to at least chime in and say that I support it. Old PC games need love. Methinks that out of the PC games already represented on OCR, several of them are by me, hehe. Such as...

The 7th Guest
Grim Fandango
Day of the Tentacle
Commander Keen 4
Commander Keen 5
Doom 2
Duke Nukem 3D
Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Lemmings
Wolfenstein 3D

And let's see... I've also covered Myst, Riven, some Monkey Island stuff, Medal of Honor... but of course, there are oodles of excellent compositions from all of the above that need more lovin', so have at it folks! Best of luck to y'all in this endeavor, I'm looking forward to hearing what comes out of it!

[Melbu Frahma]

So, I just had an idea.

Why not make the Initiative into a compo of some kind - or at least make an offshot of the Initiative into one? Ask all competitors to pick a track from a PC game 2000 and earlier, and use that in a round-robin competition similar to the Mega Man and Street Fighter compos? It might be a bit tougher to manage - you might run into tracks from wildly different games that would be nigh-impossible to combine - but it'd definitely be a good way to get people interested in and working with old-school PC tunes.

It's a thought.