Sound Blaster Hour of Power 2 - Great Dos Music - NintendoComplete

A new, long-overdue full hour of classic Sound Blaster PC tunes. Not a "Best of" nor a "Top 10" list, but rather a sampling of memorable, classic game themes. Hope you all enjoy it!

All of the music was recorded directly from a 90s PC equipped with a Sound Blaster AWE32 CT2760 model - it's a hulking bit of plastic molded into a 14" long 16-bit ISA card that married wavetable synthesis with the SB16's genuine Yamaha OPL3 and loaded it up the wazoo with a bunch of MIDI-focused features to spice things up. It sounded fantastic, and is easily my favorite Creative Labs card for its versatility, compatibility, and overall synth quality in both OPL3 and AWE modes. It's a bit noisy, but the quality of the chip-generated music it puts out is hard to match, and the FM is virtually untouchable by any other Swiss Army knife-style sound card of the time.

Sure, you could've spent absurd amounts on an MT32 back then to rock out at the expense of all digital sound in most games, or the Ultrasound with sweet music and midi capabilities butchered by its hideous SB compatibility in emulation mode, or you could've just bought a real SB that sounded good in most things, and was the only line of cards to be universally supported by software makers during Creative's reign over the Pre-Windows 95 era multumedia market. The AWE's wavetable is no slouch either, even if its bugged midi interface leaves something to be desired.

The tracks are played in the following order, and all were recorded in SB16/Adlib modes (depending on what the game provided support for) in Dos 6.22:

Total Carnage
Altered Beast
F29 Retaliator
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
Tempest 2000
Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge
Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger
Summer Challenge
Veil of Darkness
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Wacky Wheels
The Simpsons Arcade Game
The Legend of Kyrandia
Star Wars: X-Wing
Simon the Sorcerer
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Gods (uses FM and PCM)
Prince of Persia
Raptor: Call of the Shadows
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
Altered Destiny
Spear of Destiny
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss
Traffic Department 2192
Silpheed
Abuse
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride

The first volume of this fledgling series of Sound Blaster music can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJwWekm_NIk

And if you enjoy 90s PC gaming, be sure to check out my playlist of playthroughs! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3gSj_kh1fHvH2JX1zx9xLW4dJHkZlVkp
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