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First post, by Guest

Posted on 2004-08-30, 17:22

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Hi,

I'm using DOSBox to play a few old games (ah, what a surprise...) and I can't get midi output to work 🙁

The problem is that DOSBox seemingly tries to access port 65:0, while timidity is listening on port 128:0.

I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev. 2.0 mainboard with an nForce2 AC97 audio controller.

1root@fuchur:~ # lspci | grep -i audio
20000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
30000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
40000:01:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02)
5root@fuchur:~ #

I'm using Gentoo with a 2.6.8 kernel.

Here is the output of pmidi -l

1root@fuchur:~ # pmidi -l
2 Port     Client name                       Port name
3128:0     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 0
4128:1     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 1
5128:2     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 2
6128:3     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 3

So, how can I tell DOSBox to access port 128:0 instead of 65:0?

I guess this must be something very trivial, but I absolutely couldn't find any information about this with Google, although it can't be so exceptional that people want to use DOSBox together with Timidity...

Reply 1 of 2, by prompt

Posted on 2004-08-30, 18:11

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in the dosbox.conf under section [midi]: config=128:0

Reply 2 of 2, by Guest

Posted on 2004-08-31, 01:26

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Thanks! That worked.

Still, I don't have midi sound in Gobliiins. But it does work with other games, like Monkey Island 1.

So I wonder: did Gobliiins even HAD midi music? If someone knows that, please tell me. I wouldn't like to investigate this problem even though it's not even possible 😉

Thanks,

Malte

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