Technician album: JCM Episode 2 for DOOM I Original Soundtrack
Release date: September 1994 (JCM2.ZIP), December, 2006 (JCMDI)
Number of tracks: 10 [Total Playing time 22:40]


History:

In 1994 when id Software released the epic video game DOOM for the PC, a few talented hackers wrote and released editors which allowed add-on levels to be created by users. Soon many other cool utility applications appeared, allowing import/export of new images, sounds, and music in/out of add-on levels. A huge flood of "WAD" file add-on levels for DOOM swarmed the Internet. In no time, the JCM Digital Imaging team completed and released 2 full add-on episode packages. Episode 1 (JCM1.WAD) provided 9 levels (a complete replacement for episode 1) while episode 2 (JCM2.WAD) included 9 additional levels PLUS new graphics, sounds, AND music by Technician!

2 tunes were written from scratch and added to the 8 existing Technician tunes which were selected to be used as game music. Due to the MIDI vs. iWAD native music format differences, some of the percussion tracks and instrument tracks had to be re-written, resulting in some unique versions of the 8 orginal Technician tracks.

12 years later, in 2006, the music from all 9 levels and intermission of episode 2 was recorded directly from game play. The sound card was set to old-school Adlib FM synthesis (OPL chipset) mono output emulation. The resulting files were digitally normalized and manipulated to remove DC offset, leading and trailing defects, then "tweaked" into pseudo-stereo using digital effects. The result is digitally remastered stereo tracks, using the vintage FM instruments.

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Content:

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01 [1:30] Doom Level 1 DOOM soundtrack version of Technician:Doom Level 1 (Remastered Dec. 2006)

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02 [2:57] Doom Level 2 DOOM Soundtrack version of Technician:Digital Dreaming (Remastered Dec. 2006)

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03 [2:27] Doom Level 3 DOOM Soundtrack version of Technician:Space Horn (Remastered Dec. 2006)

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04 [2:56] Doom Level 4 DOOM Soundtrack version of Technician:Under Way (Remastered Dec. 2006)

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05 [2:05] Doom Level 5 DOOM Soundtrack version of Technician:Hotfoot Polka (Remastered Dec. 2006)

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06 [1:42] Doom Level 6 DOOM Soundtrack version of Technician:Summer dance (Remastered Dec. 2006)

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07 [1:49] Doom Level 7 DOOM Soundtrack version of Technician:Runaway (Remastered Dec. 2006)

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08 [3:08] Doom Level 8 DOOM Soundtrack version of Technician:The Hunt (Remastered Dec. 2006)

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09 [2:27] Doom Level 9 Original track composed for the DOOM Soundtrack; mostly sound effects. (Remastered Dec. 2006)

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10 [1:39] Doom Intermission Original track composed for the DOOM Soundtrack. (Remastered Dec. 2006)

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Note: Most of the YouTube videos contain only a portion of the full-length CD audio track.

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Legacy DOOM episodes
NOTE these WADs were compiled for the v1.6 (DOS) DOOM game engine. If you have the DOS version of DOOM other than 1.6, don't let the demo run or the game will crash and you'll have to re-load. zDOOM users should have no problem with it. :-)

JCM1.ZIP (340K) JCM1.WAD add-on episode for DOOM I (9 new levels!)
JCM2.ZIP (715K) JCM2.WAD add-on episode for DOOM I (9 more levels, featuring mutated Technician Music!)


For Windows users - get THESE!
zdoom-2.1.7.zip (1332K) This is zDOOM for Windows - runs great in XP and handles pWADs too!
JCM1-2new for zDOOM.zip (956K) JCM episodes 1 and 2 for zDOOM, both in one pWAD file.

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These are screen shots from each level of JCM2.WAD, starting with the intermission (level 0), and ending with the secret level, 9.

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e-mail contact: jcm @ jcmdi.com

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