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But the original soundtrack is still a banger.

I grew up on AdLibs and Soundblasters and I love FM synthesis. For a while I thought that I had just imprinted on the sound signature of the OPL3 chip. Now after crises and tragedies I see the core truth at the inside of reality: FM synthesis is just so good.

The OPL3 modulates frequencies really well!

Here’s the Transport Tycoon soundtrack as performed by an OPL3 chip. This is objectively the original-original soundtrack. Because this is what I grew up on.

https://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=56778

(It’s cool how it was captured through the S/PDIF port of a SoundBlaster AWE32. It’s a nice little turn of commodity entertainment device market events that gave us that possibility, isn’t it?)

There are open-source libraries like AdPlug (https://adplug.github.io/) that offer really good OPL3 emulation. If you have the MIDI assets from the original game, it might be possible to get the original AdLib soundtrack working with OpenTTD!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFsrmLhC00

Original soundtrack recorded with live instruments. Grooviest thing I've heard in years.

Man, TTD music was the only management game that made me HYPE to get down to managing.

Like I vividly remember Sim City 3000 music as well, but that game was more chill, like a sunny winter day.

TTD was like a spring day where you plan you call the pinkertons to bust some unions while smoking a cigar.

My mother's favorite game was Sim City 3000, and that soundtrack is still one of the best and my favorites. Such a groovy Jazz with variety. I'd love to find other artists like Jerry Martin did that soundtrack, most smooth jazz is too cheesy for me.

Jerry Martin's awesome!

You can get more of his music on his web site Boom Bam Boom:

https://boombamboom.com/

That’s genuinely the first time I’ve heard it. Unfortunately I could never get TT midi working with my sound card. Sound effects played just fine, but I just couldn’t get midi audio working on TT.

I really don’t miss those days of trying dozens of different autoexec.bat / config.sys configurations for each and every game just to get the basics working.

Dab-dab-daaadab-dab-dadadab-dadab-dab-dab-dadab-dadadadaaaab....

I don't remember this being on the transport tycoon soundtrack

https://youtu.be/l_bTTUihfx0?t=20

Downvotes are fair, in my defence I was tired haha

Dumbass comment lmao

It is! Whenever I play OpenTTD, I make sure to fetch the original soundtrack instead of the new one.

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