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Help identifying the name of a song

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First post, by rfnagel

Posted on 2024-12-25, 04:32

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OK, this is driving me nutz! Does anyone know the name of the song that is played in Sierra On-Line's electronic Christmas card for DOS from 1992 (the fourth electronic Christmas card that Sierra released). The song in question starts at 2:05 in this video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmVQG6s0n5o ( https://youtu.be/DmVQG6s0n5o?t=125 ). All of the other tunes are easily identified, but I can't for the life of me figure out what that specific song is (although it sounds very familiar).

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Reply 1 of 4, by liqmat

Posted on 2024-12-25, 06:20

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My guess would be it’s an original from Rudy Helm for the Christmas demo.

Reply 2 of 4, by rfnagel

Posted on 2024-12-25, 11:41

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liqmat wrote on 2024-12-25, 06:20:

My guess would be it’s an original from Rudy Helm for the Christmas demo.

Thanks for the reply. The thing is, all of the other songs are traditional Christmas songs (like the 1988 Sierra Christmas card).

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Reply 3 of 4, by rfnagel

Posted on 2024-12-26, 03:04

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For anyone interested:

I extracted the Sierra format music files from the "RESOURCE.000" data file from the 1992 Sierra On-Line Christmas card, and converted them to standard MIDI files. The filename for the Sierra format music file for the song in question is "101.SND", and there are seperate exported and converted MIDI files depending on the device used for music playback in the program.

Included in this ZIP are the files:

"101.snd (AdLib OPL2).mid"
"101.snd (General MIDI).mid"
"101.snd (PC Speaker).mid"
"101.snd (Roland MT-32).mid"
"101.snd (Tandy 3 Voice).mid"

I ALSO chopped out JUST the melody track of the song in question and saved it to this MIDI file:

"101.snd Melody Track.mid"

...which makes it a lot easier to hear just the melody of the song itself.

Lastly, also included is an MP3 of just the melody track:

"101.snd Melody Track.mp3"

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Reply 4 of 4, by BitWrangler

Posted on 2024-12-26, 04:42

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Sounds to me like a bad version of "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas"

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