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by silar
Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:20 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Looking for knowledge re: the soundtrack for the Macintosh demo of D1
Replies: 5
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Re: Looking for knowledge re: the soundtrack for the Macintosh demo of D1

Oh, uh, I never thought about that for some reason. The demo does have a setting for that buried in the options. I guess I'm so used to most older Mac games not having individual volume controls for things that that never occurred to me. Doing the headphone>mic thing is still an awkward solution tho...
by silar
Tue Aug 14, 2018 4:37 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Looking for knowledge re: the soundtrack for the Macintosh demo of D1
Replies: 5
Views: 1356

Re: Looking for knowledge re: the soundtrack for the Macintosh demo of D1

I guess I could just replace all the soundfx sound files with dummy files of silence, then play the game with a cable from the Mac's headphone port to another computer's mic port and record the music analog. But that's kind of a crappy juryrig solution. Honestly I'm hoping someone else happens to kn...
by silar
Tue Aug 14, 2018 4:30 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Looking for knowledge re: the soundtrack for the Macintosh demo of D1
Replies: 5
Views: 1356

Re: Looking for knowledge re: the soundtrack for the Macintosh demo of D1

If it's not in the data fork than I honestly have no idea where else it could be. They're not in the resource fork, hog, or pig files (at least, not unless it's encrypted into a fake entry). > The hard part is finding and identifying what you are looking for Yeah that's definitely the thing. I'd hav...
by silar
Sun Aug 12, 2018 6:40 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Looking for knowledge re: the soundtrack for the Macintosh demo of D1
Replies: 5
Views: 1356

Looking for knowledge re: the soundtrack for the Macintosh demo of D1

(Most of this question is copy/pasted from my other thread but with new info added now. Apologies if this isn't the right forum to post in) The original Descent 1 for PC had IIRC two different soundtracks (wavetables and FM synthesis). The Mac and Playstation retail versions used their own much high...
by silar
Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:54 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Noob help: not sure which forum to post my question in
Replies: 6
Views: 12135

Re: Noob help: not sure which forum to post my question in

Also: If I download the PC retail and shareware wavetable MIDI files off the web and play them on the Mac, they're totally recognizable but not the same. Presumably they rewrote the tracks slightly so they sounded better under Quicktime.
by silar
Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:49 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Noob help: not sure which forum to post my question in
Replies: 6
Views: 12135

Re: Noob help: not sure which forum to post my question in

I should also point out FWIW that the Mac demo only has one HOG and one PIG file, and AFAIK the MIDI music isn't stored in either of those. (At least, I've copied them to Windows machines and extracted them but it's not there).
by silar
Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:46 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Noob help: not sure which forum to post my question in
Replies: 6
Views: 12135

Re: Noob help: not sure which forum to post my question in

Right I know that but it isn't really relevant to my situation I don't think. I guess the backstory to this question is too complicated so I'll just ask it here outright and then people can tell me what other forum to copy/paste this into. The original Descent 1 for PC had IIRC two different soundtr...
by silar
Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:45 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Noob help: not sure which forum to post my question in
Replies: 6
Views: 12135

Re: Noob help: not sure which forum to post my question in

I guess I should say that I don't REALLY care about the nitty gritty of the extraction process or how to do it. Ultimately all I'm looking for are MP3/WAVE/OGGs of the music. If someone has already done that in the past and uploaded it somewhere that would be great. Alternatively if someone happens ...
by silar
Wed Aug 08, 2018 9:21 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Noob help: not sure which forum to post my question in
Replies: 6
Views: 12135

Noob help: not sure which forum to post my question in

I'm not sure this meta question really belongs in this feedback forum either, but I don't know where else to start. I'm trying to find anyone who knows about the music from D1, specifically the remix soundtrack used in the Mac shareware demo and how to extract it properly (it's not the same as the P...