Laserschwert said:
This was kind of an on and off project for me, but in the last few days I finally started over from scratch and finished this thing:
Excellent work! You know, LucasArts has lots of MIDI-music games to keep you busy ... :)
Yet, even back in the day of such MIDI-music games as TIE Fighter, many must've played those games sounding like your project ... with this:
Wikipedia - Gravis Ultrasound :
The Gravis UltraSound was unique at the time of its launch (1992) with its use of 'wavetable' sample-based music synthesis technology on the IBM PC platform — the ability to use real-world sound recordings rather than artificial computer-generated waveforms to base a musical instrument on; so a piano sounds like an actual real piano, a trumpet like an actual trumpet, etc. The GUS was remarkable for MIDI playback quality with a large set of instrument patches that could be stored in its own RAM, having up to 32 hardware audio channels.
Here's an old advert:
http://www.csoon.com/issue1/gravis_h.html
An ode to UltraSound (with "the original UltraSound & samples CD" link):
http://multimedia.cx/eggs/ode-to-the-gravis-ultrasound/
And a GUS [Gravis UltraSound] emulator(!):
http://www.deinmeister.de/gusemu/index.html