Mechwarrior (1989) & MT-32 \ VOGONS

Mechwarrior (1989) & MT-32

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First post, by Bambo

Posted on 2012-06-28, 10:38

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So I would like to play the original Mechwarrior with Roland sound.

Problem: There's a bug in the game/DosBox: The game will crash after each mission when MPU401 is set to "intelligent"
( http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=397&letter=M )
Usually this is a non-issue because you can use adlib anyway. But for MT-32 you'll need this.
When I set mpu401=uart there's still music but no sound effects.

Has somebody an idea for a fix/workaround? Is there a way to switch between "uart" and "intelligent" ingame?

Some info as to my system:
Dosbox 0.74 (no SVN)
Roland MT-32 through Munt emulation (installed as a device in windows)
Windows 7 64bit

Last edited by Bambo on 2014-07-20, 17:42. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 1, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2012-06-28, 11:08

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Even if you work around the IRQ hang issue with intelligent mode, the game then promptly commands the MPU401 to go into UART mode, so there is really no "benefit" of intelligent mode to be had in this case.

Anyway, you won't get support here for a game you've admitted to obtaining illegally, so ask where you downloaded it.

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