King's Quest 5 - Music differences between DOS and Win versions

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Published on April 12, 2021 1:33:18 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKAkkWV_6P0

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King's Quest V (1990)

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ORIGINALLY UPLOADED ON: 11 August 2010 at 14:12

I made this video for the ScummVM devs for information regarding support for Sierra's SCI adventure games. The CD Windows version of King's Quest V had an alternate soundtrack in certain places than either DOS version from the disk or CD. The DOS soundtrack was made for the MT-32 and the Windows version was made for General MIDI. Besides that, there were a handful of alternate tracks that were reworked from the original MT-32 score. Namely, the Weeping Willow themes. There may be more but I haven't gone through the entire game to check.

Now I know I said that the DOS version was MT-32 and the Windows version was General MIDI, but before you all berate me for not actually playing back the MT-32 and General MIDI soundtracks, I used Adlib purposely because it was the fastest and easiest way to record. The point of this video is not to show the difference in sounds anyway. It's to show the difference in notation.

I used DOSBox to capture the video footage of the DOS version and the Windows version in Windows 3.11.

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