N/A: Warcraft II

[Gigablah]

Can someone verify that this CD actually exists? The actual Warcraft II redbook differs from this.

[Myrkul]

I personally never heard about an official release for Warcraft II music.
Could we have missed a blizzard release? I doubt it.

[Rimo]

It's not an official release.

[LuxKiller65]

Wish they cared about making one...

[Gigablah]

If there's no proof of a physical CD (official or not) being released, I suppose this entry should be removed.


Also, Glenn Stafford apparently distributed the original MIDI source files for Warcraft II, 15 of them in all. This message was included in the archive:

Folks,

Attached are the OFFICIAL Warcraft 2 MIDI files in General MIDI
format. I saw that there were only two of the songs in the .zip file
on the "Game Music Homepage", and just wanted to make sure you had
access to them all, and that the ones you had were the original,
unmodified ones, straight from the source; the ones on the Game Music
page sounded kind of funny, and parts seemed to be missing. I got
your names from either the contact info on this homepage, or on the
"wish list" for MIDI files.
Enjoy the songs as much as you like, and feel free to distribute
them with this message attached, but please remember that the MIDI
files remain copywritten properties of Blizzard Entertainment and are
not to be sold, modified, reproduced, used for other purposes, etc.
As far as I'm concerned, the more people that get their hands on them,
the better; maybe they'll want to go out and buy the game!
Check out Diablo; Matt Uelmen at Blizzard North did a great job on
the music, and I helped out with voices and sound effects. Sorry, no
MIDI files though - it's all digital audio. Also keep an eye out for
Starcraft coming this spring/summer!

These MIDI files are best listened to on Roland or Yamaha General MIDI
compatible sound cards.

Regards,

Glenn Stafford, director of audio
Blizzard Entertainment
[email protected]
http:/www.blizzard.com

(Why is this guy so awesome)

[pepak]

I wonder, is it possible to download this "original" archive somewhere?

[Gigablah]

Here it is: http://www.bigblah.net/upload/warcraft2.zip

I don't quite remember where I got it from, but I guess redistributing it shouldn't be a problem.

[pepak]

Thanks! Since it is official, it should be OK. It's not as if there were a Warcraft II soundtrack I could buy, anyway.