DX-Ball (W32)

DX Ball

Platform: Windows 32 Year: 1996 Developer: Michael P. Welch Online: Download

DX-Ball is a free Arkanoid-inspired game created by Michael P. Welch.

Later it was released some add-ons and standalone games looking like its predecessor - DX-Ball 2, Rival Ball and Super DX-Ball.

Although it's very old Windows game (one of the first Windows 32 games), it's still forwardly compatible even with Windows 10 and other 64-bit versions and still works not bad.

Screenshots

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Music

VGMPF Album Art

The game use MDS files for music. Only 2 of them (Ackerlight and Ethno Papa) are used standardly; others play if you press F5 during the gameplay, but never play independently. Ethno Papa is for title, and Ackerlight is for highscore.

The recordings are placed in the order used in the game. All of them loop.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Ethno Papa	Roland Corporation	Roland Corporation	3:24		Download
02	Freebee	Jeff R. Bosset	Jeff R. Bosset	2:39		Download
03	Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression	Keith Emerson, Greg Lake	Unknown	3:50		Download
04	Flight of the Bumblebee	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Romeo Music International	2:44		Download
05	Overture from The Marriage of Figaro	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	MTA	4:16		Download
06	Ackerlight	Frédéric Hahn	Howard Wootan, Mike Doyle	4:52		Download

Credits

• Ripper: M1911 (main), binarymaster (conversion to MIDI)
• Recorder: binarymaster
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer: Keith Emerson
  • Not Credited Composer: Frédéric Hahn
  • Not Credited Composer: Jeff Bosset credited as Jeff R. Bosset
  • Not Credited Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Not Credited Composer: Roland credited as Roland Corporation
  • Not Credited Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Not Credited Arranger: Howard Wootan
  • Not Credited Arranger: Michael Doyle
  • Not Credited Arranger: Romeo Music International credited as Romeo Music Intl.
  • Not Credited Arranger: Unknown credited as MTA

(Source: Game lacks credits.)

Michael P. Welch didn't compose music. He just found some MIDI music in the Internet (written from 1993 to 1994 for Roland GS and General MIDI) and converted it to MDS. Not even the filenames were changed.

E.g. the Ethno Papa can be found here. Just search for the names "Freebee.mid", "Brain.mid", "12flight.mid", "Gmfigaro.mid" and "Acker-gs.mid".

Game Rip

Format	Conversion	Download
		Download (Info)

The game use MDS (MIDI streaming) files for music, placed in the root folder of the game. Also MDS files were converted to MIDI using MIDIPLEX and included in the rip.

Since the game use WAV sounds, they are also included in the rip.

Audio Devices

The game uses DirectX 2 API.

Releases

World Title: DX-Ball Platform: Windows 32 Released: 1996-??-?? Publisher: Unknown

Links

• blitwise.com/Scorched_Reality/index.html - Official page.
• mobygames.com/game/windows/dx-ball - MobyGames.