Good effort. I was worried for the first bit that there wasn't enough bass to it....that soon got sorted :). I think the booming bass gives it enough rhythm.

You've done a good job of it, it does sound like proper dark ambient. However I do find it sounds a bit like "dark amb by numbers" i.e. it's got all the right features but doesn't necessarily grab my attention more than any other dark amb. Of course, the sound could be exactly what you're after and what inspired you....which is fine.

As Kell says, definitely worth continuing with. 

If I can imagine this in-game, then I think with the right surroundings it would definitely add to the overall ambience.

The only 'but' I would add is that it does not strike me as "killing" music: more like "tension" music between two areas of heavy fighting with maybe the odd monster popping out at you from somewhere dark.

I like it. I would use it.

(ermmm, 'would' use it, not 'will' use it, of course) 

Mike: some people just listen to this stuff :)

Pulsar: the use of distortion was unusual, but i did like it. not enough droning, tho ;) 

The only 'but' I would add is that it does not strike me as "killing" music

But in a game like quake, do you want "killing" music the whole time or "scary mood" music the whole time? Most of the quake soundtrack is scary mood music, and I think that's good. When combat starts all you hear is gunfire and growling monsters anyway.

P.S. I liked it too. 

metlslime: do you want "killing" music the whole time or "scary mood" music the whole time

Neither, which is why I pointed out that I felt it was between-the-fights music. I guess I've nailed my colours to the mast (as it were) with the music in FMB_bdg - four pieces of music in one map; two for set pieces, two for beteween the main fights; plus some silence even if you don't switch the music off.

Inertia: Oh! But if they don't operate the mouse/keyboard whilst the music is on, don't they keep losing their life ;) 

bass is waaaaaaay too loud. couldn't listen to it at the same volume i listen to other stuff. And i don't own a subwoofer or something.

other than that, quite nice, but i agree with shambler.


ps. shambler come to irc pleasee we miss you very much ok thanks! 

I do own a subwoofer. It is the best thing I have ever bought. I seriously want to hug and kiss it sometimes.

Ummm yes. 

Pulsar, it reminds me of Myst. So, you are making a no monster episode, yes? 

pretty nice i like it also! for a huge castle might work fine for basement :) 

pix pls 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=445117&in_page_id=1965

Time to clean the old double barrel 

it says hexagon, not pentagram 

it says hexagon, not pentagram

Titan would be a bitch to fight on compared to Phobos. 

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/3/28/132751/380 

They have their mountains made of ice there, and methane lakes, perhaps ethane snowflakes? 90 kelvins.

From their point of view, we bathe in molten lava, and it flows in our veins! What horror.

Everything's really slow there as there's just a little energy from the sun... and perhaps some volcanic action.

Earth would be like hell to them. 

That's crazy Tron, Tron. 

That's why you last only 1 minute when someone touches you. ;) 

I am really thinking of returning my Quake maps to the FBI, there may be some neutrinos left.

I never thought Tron was a B-flop! 

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

My bookmark link to your site isn't working. I need a hit, man! 

<popek> april fools netjokes are the epitomy of lame humour 

with a Apraphul/1.4.7 server. 

Since a few days, my PC is slowing down some 10-15 min. after booting, opening folders takes longer and longer until it becomes practically unusable.
After rebooting it�s ok again but only for said 10-15 min.

Strange thing is, surfing net/playing games is normal as always, just opening (any) folders won�t work right.

I did scans with AVG/Spybot S&D, even reinstalled OS and defragmented.
Any help would be appreciated.

windows 98SE
nVidia geforce 4200
Athlon 1.4 GHZ
Soundblaster live 

... you should try to clean your register base with regseeker... It helps sometimes... It can also come from your mother board and the CPU's peripherals (i.e RAM, etc...) that could have a problem (clock speed, etc...) It is really tricky to solve in this case... 

How much space do you have left on the HDD that has the OS installed? Could be that you don't have enough space for it to do its swapfile/virtual memory stuff 

Is the disk activity intense when everything seems to slow down?

If yes, either the OS is swapping a lot (too little RAM) or something's doing intense disk I/O. If no, then something must be hogging the CPU.

Try disabling as many processes as possible to find the offending one.