Hey guys,

First, thanks for DOSBox! Great stuff!

Yesterday I spent some quality time installing Win 3.11 in DOSBox in order to play the game Dark Seed II. I got everything working with SB and S3 drivers so that's great.

What I noticed is that MIDI music playback isn't that good. When I play the same file in dosboxed 3.11 vs. on my XP host, the latter is much more engaging. I changed the MIDI Mapper in 3.11 to 'SB16 All MIDI' which is better than the default but still not the best. (BTW first time I played the game was on a WinME era machine with better MIDI so I'd like to replay it with the same experience.)

Is there a way to get better MIDI samples into 3.11? Or any way to pull the pure MIDI from DOSBox so it gets fed directly to the host? From what I read, regular MIDI cards aren't emulated, but directly transfered to the host - is it possible to do the same with SB16 while keeping the sound functionality?

Thanks! And sorry if this is a stupid question, I'm kinda stuck here.