Post #1619404

2026-04-20 20:26 UTC

In a chat I&#39;m in some people were discussing the website of this restaurant: http://www.mrbruce.karoo.net which is apparently designed some time in the mid 2000s. Someone noticed there&#39;s a MIDI file linked in the source code. So I downloaded it and rendered it to an mp3. It&#39;s... hard to believe this is how it&#39;s supposed to sound. But also... how else should it sound? I have no answers!

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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net 2026-04-20 20:37

@Tijn 😆 i thought for sure this would be a case of "old FM synth tune that sounds bad as generic midi" but nooooope. it's even more dissonant in OPL-FM.

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@madrush@tacobelllabs.net 2026-04-20 20:40

@Tijn spiritually feels like sim city 2000

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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net 2026-04-20 20:47

@Tijn i don't know if anyone else saw this fb post, but you can't make this up. 😆

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@thematic@mastodon.green 2026-04-20 21:25

@Tijn Definitely feels like the kitchen rather than the eatery side. Though I haven't done a lot of big kitchen, but nonzero.

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@nothings@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-21 17:05

@Tijn As a person who has authored a few MIDI files AND who has written code to manipulate & generate MIDI data programatically and who has read and understood the spec -- I too have no idea how this could happen. You'd never get anything like this from corrupted or random data, AFAIK.

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@botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-21 19:04

@Tijn This needs to be mixed by @inpc

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@darius@friend.camp 2026-04-21 19:05

@Tijn honestly this sounds like my first attempts at making midi music when I was 13? I didn't play any instruments or anything as a kid, I just downloaded a shareware midi sequencer program and tried to make music-shaped things. Truly I think this could be an earnest attempt at writing music by a very young person with late 90s or early 2000s shareware/freeware tools

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