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First post, by Dougal

Posted on 2014-03-11, 17:25

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My abandonware gaming laptop (Compaq Armada 7400) has a built-in ESS Audiodrive 1879.

The sound card is really good for a laptop and supports General Midi which makes supported games like ROTT, Duke3d, Doom, Doom II etc sound really amazing, almost like an AWE32 etc. I'm guessing it has a midi wave table or something to give those results.

I was wondering if there is some sort of MT-32 or AWE32 emulation for this card via software ?

Win 7 : Core2Quad 2.4Ghz, 4Gb Ram, Audigy 4 Pro
Win 98: Pentium III 600Mhz, 448MB Ram, Matrox Millenium DualHead 32MB, Sound Blaster 32, Roland MT-32
Win 98: Compaq Armada 7400 P2 333Mhz, 192MB Ram, ESS AudiDrive 1879 with Wavetable

Reply 1 of 1, by Dougal

Posted on 2014-03-13, 18:28

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Funnily in some games, for example 4D Sports Driving and F1GP (Microprose) which don't support General Midi in Setup instead I selected Roland MT-32 and it worked with the Midi music sounding amazing.

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