{"id":76,"date":"2011-10-26T14:47:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T18:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2020-02-22T14:39:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:39:47","slug":"looking-back-my-retro-computer-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/looking-back-my-retro-computer-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: My Retro Computer Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Are you a fan of retro computer-based music?<br \/>\n&#8211; Are you a collector of MODs, S3Ms, ROLs or MIDI files?<br \/>\n&#8211; Do you like video game and demo music from the DOS era?<\/p>\n<p>If so, then head on over to my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/music\/retro\" title=\"Brian Orr's Retro Music\">retro music page<\/a>.  You can download some of my compositions from the early 1990&#8217;s, including MODs and S3Ms, ROL files from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teamtris.net\" title=\"Teamtris: A 4-player DOS Tetris game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teamtris<\/a> video game, and MIDI files such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/?p=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 95 Easter Egg theme song<\/a> (Clouds.mid) and the music from Microsoft game Immortal Klowns (found on the first DirectX SDK).<\/p>\n<p>All are free, and MP3 versions are available as well.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to leave comments below if you like what you hear or have an interesting retro music story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Are you a fan of retro computer-based music? &#8211; Are you a collector of MODs, S3Ms, ROLs or MIDI files? &#8211; Do you like video game and demo music from the DOS era? If so, then head on over to my new retro music page. You can download some of my compositions from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compositions","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2jXdF-1e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21,"url":"https:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/14\/windows-95-easter-egg-song-clouds-mid\/","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":0},"title":"Windows 95 Easter Egg Song (Clouds.mid)","author":"Brian","date":"January 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"In early 1995, I was working at Microsoft as an intern software engineer on the Windows 95 team, and was approached to write the music for the hidden Windows 95 Easter Egg. 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