Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

Re:Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke... by recallingmemory on Friday June 19, 2026 @07:12PM (#48604397)

Wolfenstein 3D has such memorable tracks for me.. thanks for the music Bobby.

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Re:Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke... by montag on Friday June 19, 2026 @07:54PM (#48604739)

Wondering About My Loved Ones is one of my favorites. Appears also in Spear of Destiny https://chiptune.app/?play=C-eWH0LI

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Re:Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke... by ozozozd on Friday June 19, 2026 @07:37PM (#48604622)

I knew I should’ve paid extra and gotten the Sound Blaster!

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Re:Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke... by saturn8601 on Friday June 19, 2026 @07:52PM (#48604721)

Thats Ad Lib type music no?

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Re:Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke... by tadfisher on Friday June 19, 2026 @09:56PM (#48605566)

Sound Blaster is an Ad Lib (Yamaha OPL2) that mixes in a PCM stream

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Re:Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke... by d3Xt3r on Saturday June 20, 2026 @06:08AM (#48608000)

Yeah... look at all these rich kids with their fancy sound cards! Peasants like us had to make do with a humble PC speaker and a monochrome monitor.

Seriously though, playing old DOS games with fancy music and a color monitor just feels wrong to me.

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