![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Competition among these houses begins peacefully but soon turns ugly as they battle each other with armed troops, advanced weaponry, and spies. To increase productivity, The Padishah Emperor has invited three powerful Houses (Harkonnen, Atreides and Ordos) to compete against one another economically and bring up spice production. The Spice is the basis of interstellar travel and thus the standard of the Imperial economy. You usually get the best MIDI quality this way, particularly with today's soundcards.The planet Arrakis (also known as Dune for its sandy landscape) is the only place in the known universe where Melange (more commonly known as the Spice) can be found. As a rule, always try selecting General MIDI with your soundcard's normal settings when configuring music for DOS games. Regretably Dune II does not support General MIDI, the universal MIDI standard, which is why the game's music doesn't sound as good as it should and rules out the use of any kind of "emulator". This was unquestionably the best soundcard for MIDI enthusiest at the time. I'm assuming these pieces were recorded using the Roland MT-32 or equivical device. Only the piece "Ordos" is otherwise unavailable. Of those three, two can be found among the MIDI files. You can find them by following this link: There are also three low quality wav files that can be found on the Westwood ftp site. ![]() The nine in MIDI format and the three mp3s. Of those, only thirteen to my knowledge can be found on the internet. The only exception being "Times", better known as the Nod credits music from the original C&C and this only because it was licensed to and not commissioned by Westwood.Īnyway, getting back to the music of Dune II, there was only a total of twenty-two pieces in the original score. Unfortuantely I think copyright issues would prevent him from distributing any of his works from Westwood games. I initially tried to post the links from the news articles but they weren't working, I assume due to either the change from the old domain or the use of your nifty new download script.Īnd thanks also for the link. ![]()
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