heh, seems you've really taken a shine for the SW20-PC , it inspired me to install mine in my 386DX build 🤣

Maybe there is a way to change to MT-32 emulation mode? not sure there is one though... the manual says nothing as far as I can see.
I am attaching a zip with 2 test .BAT files, run one and try Monkey Island to see if it changes anything with midi playback. Then the other, maybe one works or something...

keropi wrote:

heh, seems you've really taken a shine for the SW20-PC , it inspired me to install mine in my 386DX build 🤣

It's... different. OPL3 music sounds different from sound blaster or YMF71x boards. Wavetable music is deep, clear and bassy, the drum kit is awesome and it has some really cool stereo effects I haven't heard in MIDI before. Also, considering the only wavetable boards I have are creative (AWE32 and AWE64), I'm excited about something a little different. I don't have anything fancy like an MT32 or SC55, but I'm planning to get one right after I find a Voodoo 5.

I edited my post above, maybe one of the BAT files in the attachment works for mt-32 emulation... certainly worth a try 😁

keropi wrote:

I edited my post above, maybe one of the BAT files in the attachment works for mt-32 emulation... certainly worth a try 😁

Ok so I ran the bat files and they both do more or less the same thing - witch is replace the standard soundfonts with some funny rumba or whatever like ones.

Here's a video with me messing around with the card in Duke3D on a 550MHz K6-2 / 128MB ram / Matrox Millenium II 8MB / Jetway VIA MVP3 : https://youtu.be/ILLRyE2y7MM

hello
i am interested in this card and want to get one, does it have driver for win95/98? either from yamaha or generic opti driver.

So you ran a .bat and then Monkey Island and the result was that it sounded even more wrong than before?

noshutdown wrote:

hello
i am interested in this card and want to get one, does it have driver for win95/98? either from yamaha or generic opti driver.

It does. The driver comes on 4 floppy disks and you can install it from DOS (it also installs the windows driver). So far I tested it on win95 and it works great. You can find the disks on the vogons driver library -> http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … 344&menustate=0

keropi wrote:

So you ran a .bat and then Monkey Island and the result was that it sounded even more wrong than before?

Yup - it made it worse. The thing is, using a midi player under dos, in MT32 mode, everything sounds fine. It doesn't sound like a real MT32, but it sounds good.

Hay, please do more of these recordings. I'd like to hear it do great word adventure, arcade america and a few sierra games.

autoexecdotbat wrote:

Hay, please do more of these recordings. I'd like to hear it do great word adventure, arcade america and a few sierra games.

Sure, I'll post some more recordings as soon as I have some free time - either tomorrow night or friday afternoon. I don't have any of the games you listed installed, and tracking them down will take a little bit. The only sierra games I have are the Space Quest series and Gobliins 2. I think I might also have King's quest V.

thanks. I know where to get the 7th level games, but I can't link to them for legal reasons.

Here are more recordings:

Descent - setup "Test Midi" music -

Space Quest V -

Gobliins 2 -

Raptor Call of the Shadows -

thanks, but you accedentally attatched rapter to the descent menu music.

autoexecdotbat wrote:

thanks, but you accedentally attatched rapter to the descent menu music.

fixed