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First post, by Sphere478

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Anyone play with midi files much?

Back in the early 2000’s I was playing with a old computer. Prob a p1 or p2 and I found on the hard drive a midi file.

It was called wonder.mid or wander.mid and it was kinda a techno up beat almost. I kept it in my music collection for years, It was really cool. But over the years it accidentally got deleted. It would be fun to find it again. Anyone have ideas? The two that I find googling aren’t it.

It was probably circulated via email back in those days as one of the chain emails sharing cool stuff.

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Reply 1 of 7, by liqmat

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Checked my archives. Unfortunately, all I have with "wander" is a SID file. Nothing with just "wonder". Hopefully it wasn't a home grown midi tune or it may have been part of a game possibly.

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Reply 2 of 7, by Thermalwrong

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Which locations / versions have you found so far?
wander2.mid (45.6KB) from here sounds pretty fun: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geoci … collection-2009

Reply 3 of 7, by Sphere478

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In that collection wonder and wander aren’t it. I will have to check the similar names.

It takes a while to scroll to them and upload them in a online midi player on a phone.

I’m kinda bummed that it may be lost to time 🙁

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Reply 4 of 7, by Tiido

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I found a "wonderful world" in my MIDI files collection that sort of fits the description : http://www.tmeeco.eu/BitShit/Temp/wonderful_world.mid

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Reply 5 of 7, by Sphere478

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Tiido wrote on 2022-10-09, 05:45:

I found a "wonderful world" in my MIDI files collection that sort of fits the description : http://www.tmeeco.eu/BitShit/Temp/wonderful_world.mid

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🙁 thanks for trying though 😀

Sphere's PCB projects.
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Sphere’s socket 5/7 cpu collection.
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SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod
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Tyan S1564S to S1564D single to dual processor conversion (also s1563 and s1562)

Reply 6 of 7, by BitWrangler

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wuarchive used to have a huge amount of midi files, IDK if there's an archived mirror anywhere... maybe if they ever went on CDROM they're at textfiles.com somewhere, though other archives on CDROM there might be worth investigating.

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Not this one is it? http://grupoj.50megs.com/midis/Never%20going% … %20you%20up.mid 🤣

Was trying to track down some old archives, search string
inurl: .mid
Giving a heck of a lot to go through. Nice selection of 80s and 90s at http://grupoj.50megs.com/midis/ though.

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Reply 7 of 7, by MrKsoft

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I'm a MIDI hoarder, so I just did a filename search on anything containing "wander" or "wonder". Then I trimmed it down by removing anything obviously wrong (slow songs, piano songs, etc), though I did stretch your definition a bit to include anything relatively lively just in case. Admittedly, usually in the MIDI world I am struggling with songs I have but don't know the name of, not the opposite!

Anyway, here's a zip containing all those that I thought could possibly be relevant:

https://wafflenet.com/files/midi_wander_wonder.zip

I don't have high hopes, but give them a listen. (And yeah, some of them are probably "too new", but I was lazy and didn't want to assume!)

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