Following on from the recent release of version 2.2 of this soundtrack, version 2.3 includes much improved audio mastering so you hear far more of the detail within the tracks.

FLAC lossless audio has been a requested feature of my ScummVM Music Enhancement Project for many years and I am happy to announce that my Simon the Sorcerer enhanced soundtrack also includes this as an option for download.

FLAC lossless audio has been a requested feature of my ScummVM Music Enhancement Project for many years and I am happy to announce that my Simon the Sorcerer enhanced soundtrack now includes this as an option for download.

In my latest podcast, I interview developers Eugene Sandulenko, Arnaud Boutonné and Johannes Schickel from the open source software ScummVM. ScummVM allows you to enjoy point and click adventure games on a variety of platforms including computers, consoles and portable devices.

Today I have updated my Simon the Sorcerer enhanced soundtrack for use within ScummVM. The second song (track02.ogg) had a single note that was out of place, which has now been fixed in this latest release.

To download the updated soundtrack, click the link below:
> Simon the Sorcerer Enhanced Music Version 2.1

It is just before Christmas in 1994 and after a lot of family discussion resulting in the eventual expenditure of £599, weighing up carefully all the pros and cons of such a purchase, Santa Claus finally delivered an Acorn Archimedes A3010. This was in essence my very first personal computer, with 1MB memory, a 32bit RISC OS 3 operating system and crucially an internal floppy disk drive. Well today the specifications aren’t going to blow you away so I can forgive you for not feeling the same sense of glee and a lack of understanding at my persistence of waking my parents up at 4am to open my presents, however it opened the doorway into a new genre of gaming I had previously missed.

Point and click adventures back then and even now have a very special place in my heart and although there was a serious lull in releases a few years ago when many believed the genre extinct, the advent of the Nintendo Wii, the Apple iPhone/iPod touch and online services such as Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Store, these games are re-appearing in both their original form, remastered and even brand spanking new ones carrying on the legacy.

For me though it all started with Simon the Sorcerer…