I'm creating my own makeshift midi cable as an experiment, and it's my first time soldering/rewiring. I have a DB9 Female to DIN-5 Male adapter that I am attempting to rewire into a functional MIDI OUT cable, for use with General MIDI support in old PC game soundtracks. I found this schematic online …

PCMCIA cards are very small (credit card-sized) and cannot accept daughter boards meant for full-size ISA or PCI internal sound cards. If you want support for MIDI devices, either get a Roland SCP-55 (PCMCIA version of the SC-55 Sound Canvas ) or a PCMCIA sound card with either a game/MIDI port or …

I've always found that original thread with all the PCMCIA sound cards very interesting, but if I try to find one for myself I can buy, I can't find a single bit of information on who sells them. All I want is a card that will allow me to connect my Waveblaster MIDI interface board to. Is anyone …

Glad it worked out and thanks for sharing the result. Some of the tunes are catchy. But I don't have the Megaman game myself. Is this MT-32 specific or wil General Midi work as well? Maybe you should keep track of which tracks from VGmusic you used, and add a text file with that info to the package …

Sorry for the delay in replying, but thank you very much! I was waiting to get back to you until I had something to show for it. I've been experimenting by making a music mod for the DOS version of MegaMan X. The original compositions are very weak and lackluster, so for fun, I took some midis from …

I don't know if this is the correct place to post this, but I'm working on a personal music mod for an old DOS game, and I was wondering if there were any way to convert MIDI files to XMI format and have it play back in DOS. I've searched all over, and found XMI2MID, but I need the reverse of that. …

Thank you for the link! However, even after loading the file in my Config.sys, DOS games still do not detect the MPU-401. Is there a specific way I need to do this?

I need to load this MSDOS driver to get general midi to work under MSDOS mode with my sound card, ESS Audiodrive 1878. However, all links I've found through google and through this website are either malicious, dead links, or a set of multiple floppy disk installation images (I only have one 1.44mb …

I do not have anything plugged into my laptop other than the PCMCIA DVD-R Drive. I assume the sound card would have a wavetable built in, but from what I'm hearing, is it possible I'd have to use an external device? Edit: Sorry about before, I didn't quite understand the question. The laptop does …

I have a Windows 98 laptop with an ESS Audiodrive 1878 sound card which I use for playing my retro MS-DOS games. For the most part this works through Sound Blaster emulation, but I would prefer to use General Midi for the games that support it. General MIDI does work within the Windows environment, …

I'm not sure if this topic goes here, but I've rediscovered MS DOS gaming with an old Pentium 133mhz laptop, and I've been searching for some new titles to play. Mainly, I'm looking for 3D games released late in the MS-DOS years that were also released (or at least have visuals similar to) games on …

Huh, well what do you know. The Line Out jack was the solution after all. Who'da thunk it was that simple?

Welcome to the forum. :) Noticed that you are on a laptop. As far as I know, in the DOS games era, to playback CD audio one needed to connect a special audio cable between the CD drive and the sound card. Not sure what the alternative for a laptop would be, if it even exists... Well, I have noticed …

I have a Windows 98 laptop with an external Sony Vaio PCMCIA DVD/CD-ROM Drive (DVD51.) I have a shortcut on my desktop to reboot the computer in an optimally configured MS-DOS mode using a custom Autoexec.bat and Config.sys. I have downloaded the official drivers for my external CD Drive, both for …