March 23, 1995

Hello, and thanks for downloading "The Gates of Doom" (gatedoom.mid).

"The Gates of Doom" is copyright 1995 by Michael Walthius, all rights
reserved.  It is being freely distributed for non-commercial use.  Anyone
wishing to use this music in conjunction with software (or anything else
for that matter) is asked to please contact the composer via email at
keybdwizrd@aol.com.

Additionally, should you choose to re-distribute this file, please do not
make any changes or modifications.  Also, please be so kind as to
include this text file (gatedoom.txt).

IMPORTANT INFO FOR PEOPLE USING NON-GM INSTRUMENTS:

This file contains a couple of "embedded" patch changes on channel 11.
At the beginning of the piece, the file calls up a "percussive organ" patch
on channel (and track) 11.  At measure 90, the file switches to a "rock
organ" patch on channel (and track) 11.  At measure 106, this switches
back to the "percussive organ" patch.  If you're using a non-General MIDI
instrument, you'll need to make the necessary adjustments.

Folks using General MIDI compatible instruments (which I believe most
of you are) don't have to worry about this nonsense at all.

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For those of you who've enjoyed this piece, here is a list of my other
MIDI files currently available in the Composer's Showcase section of
the PC Music and Sound Forum's software library on America Online:

Dreaming in Stereo (dreaming.zip)
Incident at Dark Shores (drkshore.mid)
Magic Travels (travels.mid)
Funkengruven (fnkngrvn.mid)
Cyberbeat (cybrbeat.mid)
Echoes (echoes1.mid)
Houserocker (housrokr.mid)
Neon Overdrive (ovrdrive.mid)
Jammin' on Sunset (sunset1.mid)
Song For My Children (sngchild.mid)
The On-Line Boogie (olboogie.mid)
Nitefunk (nitefunk.mid)

Additionally, four of my files (Echoes, Cyberbeat, Nitefunk, and
Houserocker) can be found in a .zip file in the top picks section of
the AOL PC Music and Sound Forum.

If you acquired this file from a source other than America Online,
you may be interested to know that many of my files are available
on the Internet via anonymous ftp at the following sites (as of this
writing):

ftp.cs.ruu.nl              /pub/MIDI/SONGS/GMIDI
ftp.monash.edu.au    /pub/midi/SONGS

Just look for .zip files that begin with "kbwizrd," such as kbwizrd1.zip.

Thanks again for downloading this file - I truly hope that you enjoy 
listening to the music as much as I enjoy creating it!

Michael Walthius
AOL: KeybdWizrd
Internet: keybdwizrd@aol.com