I’m trying to figure out a MIDI setup for me, and I’m totally n00b at it. I have a 486 built with a Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold. I run either pure DOS or Windows 98. I want to be able to play back the music from Sierra and LucasArts games, and others like Doom. Instead of purchasing a real Roland MT-32 …

One just went up on eBay. Somebody actually bid $500 US. The card is being sold as-is, and looking at the blurry photos, the upper set of pins for the memory expansion board are bent like they were pressed up against another card, and C61 (capacitor) at the bottom-left is chipped. Since it's just …

It took a lot of work, but it turned out that the processor is faulty. During my troubleshooting, I also obtained an MV035F which seems to be better suited for these processors. My new processor reports and works perfectly.

I have a Am5x86-P75 (X5-133 W16BHC) that I got from eBay. It's supposed to be a 133MHz processor that has a 4x multiplier. It has a permanent heatsink on a surface mounted 208-pin SQFP, so I can't see the processor markings. I've installed it onto my MV035 Rev D motherboard and set it for an SL …