anyone?

Maybe one of the PCMCIA sound cards pictured here?
PCMCIA Sound Cards
Not all of those have midi ports, but some do.
My only experience is with USB-to-midi cables on a modern laptop, so I can't advise on what might work best for your 400CDT.

Idk. MT-32 is really more for older DOS machines. Didn't stop anybody, but MT-32s are not really intended for laptops.

Ampera wrote:

Idk. MT-32 is really more for older DOS machines. Didn't stop anybody, but MT-32s are not really intended for laptops.

i like the sound from the mt-32 for games such as heretic and aoe? is there a way. i see that the docking station has a joystick port. would that work with breakaway cables?

maverick85 wrote:

i see that the docking station has a joystick port. would that work with breakaway cables?

Hard to say; the manual might say whether or not the port supports MIDI, or calls it a "MIDI/Gameport" or something like that. If it doesn't I might think no, but the breakout cables are cheap enough that I would say its worth a shot (unless you don't have the docking station and you would be buying the docking station just for that).

An interesting idea, and this is coming from me who likes to do things the interesting but hard way, would be to use an Arduino or similar (Teensyduino is great) as a RS232 serial (38400 baud) to MIDI (31250 baud) adapter, and then connecting it to the serial port of the laptop and MIDI in of the MT32. Use softmpu to output on the COM port...

Just interested if anyone has ever done this for their laptops and if it is indeed possible?

Straight from the maintenance manual:
Enhanced port replicator port
Enables connection of an enhanced port replicator. The enhanced port replicator has
two PC card slots (Type III), and expands connections to the following devices: PS/2
keyboard, PS/2 mouse, serial port, parallel port, external CRT, joystick/MIDI port,
audio line-in, audio line-out, headphone, external FDD, AC-in, and AC-out.

RJDog was right, you'll need the port replicator model PA2711U, that will give you a joystick/MIDI port to plug your future MT-32 into, or a SC-55.
A PCMCIA card with MIDI IN/OUT ports would work as well while using some RAM in the process. Note that the few PCMCIA joysticks interface cards out there, even if they work perfectly for joysticks under DOS, only support MIDI in Win9x with the correct DB15 to MIDI cables.