Ah, MIDI files. The only type of music you could realistically download from the internet back in the day, and you had to wake up at ungodly hours so that your dialup modem would not rack up a massive phone bill.

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killerstorm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

MIDI is still widely used for professional music production. It sounded goofy back in the day because synthesizer it was played on was not very good.

	▲	andai 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I remember at one point RuneScape switched from the built in Microsoft midi whatever to their own sound engine, and from that day, everything sounded wrong, even the frogs, because to me, the crappy midi sounds were the whole personality and feel of the game.
	▲	HPsquared 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm thinking canyon.mid on Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth.

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xtracto 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I remember downloading MOD files. It was just a bit larger than midi, but sounded better. I had a PC but I think it was an Amiga thing

	▲	andai 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Need For Madness is one of my favorite games, and probably two thirds of that fondness is the music, which was a bunch of MOD files.