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have you seen the civvie 11 review? he is probaly the one who gave rott the most publicity

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12 minutes ago, omalefico32x said:

have you seen the civvie 11 review? he is probaly the one who gave rott the most publicity

Oh, yes. I've seen it. ^_^

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22 hours ago, leejacksonaudio said:

The Humor Hole has posted a great review video of Rise of the Triad, including megaprops of the music I wrote for it. Please check it out!

 

Nice, thanks for the hint.

 

Trivia: 08:05 min. into the video, there's a Monk getting photo-captured for the game. The Monk is no other than Mr. Lee Jackson himself. I have never seen these recordings before, only some stills, so that was quite a nice surprise.

 

The boss sitting in the chair at 10:06 min. is Joe Siegler, former Community Manager at Apogee/3D Realms.

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2 hours ago, deus-ex said:

Trivia: 08:05 min. into the video, there's a Monk getting photo-captured for the game. The Monk is no other than Mr. Lee Jackson himself. I have never seen these recordings before, only some stills, so that was quite a nice surprise.

Surprised me, too. I've only rarely seen this video. I wonder where he got it?

 

Trivia: beneath my monk outfit, I was wearing a leg brace on my right (I think) leg. I'd hyperextended it a few days earlier in the tech support room when a rolling chair slipped out from under me as I was trying to sit down. My limping walk in the game was quite authentic - not an act.

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Speaking of Shadow Warrior, I remember when I played the shareware release back in 1997. It consisted of four levels, each with a custom MIDI music theme, plus a MIDI title tune:

 

E1L01 = Evryoff.mid (Everybody off)

E1L02 = Morse.mid (Morse Kodo)

E1L03 = 254mm.mid

E1L04 = A10tion.mid (Attention)

Theme = Okinowwa.mid (Okinoww!a)

 

I was so looking forward to the retail version of Shadow Warrior, expecting it to have more MIDIs from Lee Jackson. But the full release used CD-Audio instead. Only Everybody off, Attention, and Okinoww!a made it into the soundtrack, the remainder of the OST (Original Sound Track) being mediocre ambient background music/noise. I always wondered, why that decision was made. At least, they should have offered MIDI as an audio option.

 

The retail OST contains a hilarious credit tune, consisting of sound bits and outtakes by the great John William Galt, voice actor of Lo Wang. The credit tune is available as a free download at 3D Realms: LoWangsRap.mp3

 

An interview with John William Galt is available on Youtube.

 

 

"You are too stupid to duck! You are blocking with your head again." :D

 

 

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On 5/14/2021 at 6:49 PM, leejacksonaudio said:

Surprised me, too. I've only rarely seen this video. I wonder where he got it?

Joe has the original capture session tapes and has posted several of them on his YouTube channel.

 

 

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I'm kinda more interested by the ROTT prototype as "Wolfenstein 3D Part II", all I saw of it before was some sprite sheets posted on Apogee's site.

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On 5/15/2021 at 9:47 AM, deus-ex said:

I was so looking forward to the retail version of Shadow Warrior, expecting it to have more MIDIs from Lee Jackson. But the full release used CD-Audio instead. Only Everybody off, Attention, and Okinoww!a made it into the soundtrack, the remainder of the OST (Original Sound Track) being mediocre ambient background music/noise. I always wondered, why that decision was made. At least, they should have offered MIDI as an audio option.

The decision was not mine. I was told I would be using CD-Audio for the retail release version, so I did my best. No MIDI files were recorded: we used native Cakewalk Pro Audio files instead to control MIDI synths and recorded everything into a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) machine synced up to the MIDI machine.

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Probably the management thought, with CD-Audio being the next big thing a that time, it would function as a product seller. In the sense of "a true AAA game requires to offer CD-Audio".

 

Still makes me wonder, why the other two MIDI tunes 'Morse Kodo' and '254mm' weren't converted to CD-Audio, too?

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6 hours ago, deus-ex said:

Still makes me wonder, why the other two MIDI tunes 'Morse Kodo' and '254mm' weren't converted to CD-Audio, too?

Not enough room on the CD for them with all of the new tracks they had me write. Or, at least that was the assumption.

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Wouldn't mind seeing those two tracks remastered...

 

Wasn't there also a few songs for the beta? I'm mostly thinking of "Taiko Recall."

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