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by Sebastien Bacquet <
[email protected]>
23 April 95
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! WARNING ! -------------------------------------------------------------
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This text is dangerous for people who can not put up with grammatical
or spelling or phonetic or ... mistakes.
I am French and not a wizard at English, so if your heart is delicate
stop reading now. :-(
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GREAT ! You are brave and you will be rewarded for it. Good luck !
Well :
_/ You own a GUS with 1024 K on board
(if you don't it's not too late, it's really worth it !)
_/ You don't hate DOOM ][
(if you think it is the greatest game you have ever played it suits too)
_/ You love DOOM ]['s musics
(if you don't try this then you will)
_/ You play with maxi music volume
(if you don't why do you have a GUS, a SB would have been cheaper)
THEN THIS IS FOR YOU !!
But what is it ?
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This is an optimized MIDI instrument mapping for GUS 1024 (like GUS1M
by Tom Klok for DOOM 1).
Tom Klok has done a very good job with GUS1M (thanx) but this mapping
doesn't suit with DOOM ][.
This is not Tom Klok's fault : DOOM (1) and DOOM ][ don't use the same MIDI
instruments at all. Id didn't seem to note it because they have inserted
GUS1M in DOOM ]['s directory (DMXGUSC entry), which is not, I repeat, good
for DOOM ][.
So, thanks to Joakim Erdfelt, I have converted MUS files to MIDI files with
MUS2MIDI so I could see what instruments were used in the musics.
Then I made a list of them and made the mapping according to it.
The result is ... simply great ;) ! DOOM ][ is not yet the same !
This is not a lie : try and listen.
How to use it ?
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This wad (GUS1M-II.WAD) was made for DOOM ][ and not for DOOM (1)
(if you don't have GUS1M.WAD, get it it's excellent for DOOM 1).
If you use GUS1M-II with DOOM 1, it will do nothing at all
(DMXGUSC entry is ignored by DOOM 1).
To use GUS1M-II, just do :
doom2 -file gus1m-II.wad
or (better) insert it definitively in DOOM2.WAD (not dangerous) with
DEUTEX for example (a very good tool : thanx to Olivier Montanuy,
a French guy too) :
deutex -doom \games\doom2 -merge gus1m-II.wad
That's it !
If you are a music lover you will really appreciate the difference.
Try this :
- launch DOOM ][ without GUS1M-II and listen some musics (IDCLEV__) :(
- pump up the volume, pump up the volume, pump up the volume
- launch DOOM ][ WITH GUS1M-II and enjoy the music :o
Let me know if you like it (sure you do !)
Copyright / Permissions
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Authors may use this optimized GUS1M-II WAD in their own WAD files,
and may use it as a base to further modify the GUS's GM mapping,
provided they send me (Sebastien Bacquet) a chocolate bar.
Anyone may distribute this WAD, provided you include this text
file with attributions. You may distribute this pwad in via any media
(BBS, floppy disk, CDROM, etc).
