MIDI That Doesn't Suck

The Mad Hatter recently took his Roland Sound Canvas for another spin, resulting in eight sharp MP3s from Privateer. Simply put, the Sound Canvas device takes a MIDI file and turns it into something you might actually enjoy listening to.

• Barrat, Shaefgen & Vugrinec - Privateer - Agricultural Base (1.6 MB)
• Barrat, Shaefgen & Vugrinec - Privateer - New Detroit (1.1 MB)
• Barrat, Shaefgen & Vugrinec - Privateer - Oxford Library (1.2 MB)
• Barrat, Shaefgen & Vugrinec - Privateer - Pirate Base (1.9 MB)
• Barrat, Shaefgen & Vugrinec - Privateer - Pleasure Base (1.5 MB)
• Barrat, Shaefgen & Vugrinec - Privateer - Refinery Base (1.5 MB)
• Barrat, Shaefgen & Vugrinec - Privateer - Steltek Base (1.3 MB)
• Barrat, Shaefgen & Vugrinec - Privateer - Steltek Destroyed (0.8 MB)

Note: Our FTP server limits the number of concurrent connections from a single computer so everyone can get a fair download speed. If you try to download too many files at once, your browser will show a generic, uninformative error message. It may appear as though the file is missing, but you just need to wait for a download to finish before starting a new one.

If you downloaded any Privateer tracks from our music section in the past, you will want to make sure that you have the best versions. We've always had the Detroit and Perry themes available for download, but Mad Hatter's tracks are far better quality. Over the last few months we've added entirely new or enhanced recordings of Prophecy and WC3 music. We now have close to 500 megabytes of MP3s on our FTP. Make sure your Wing Commander music library is up to date.

Borst Onto the Scene

My writing partner Frank De Palma and I knew a story editor who was consulting for Electronic Arts. Electronic Arts and Origin were looking for professional screenwriters who could write the screenplay for WING COMMANDER III, which was going to shoot several hours of live-action dramatic scenes. They liked our work; we were hired. Fortunately, we seemed to "understand" (or quickly learned) what interactivity might add to a narrative, leading to our winning several awards for the work in WING COMMANDER III and to our participation in and development (with others) of WING COMMANDER IV.