First post, by fatboy
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Hi folks, I’ve been lurking these boards for years now, but this is My first question here.
Recently, I took the plunge and bought Myself a Yamaha DB50XG daughter board. It even came with the original manual, demo CD, MIDI cable, and a SB16 CT1730/40! Although having a MIDI card is beneficial all around, I bought it mainly for MIDI playback in old games like Silpheed and Zeliard. You see, I did a lot of reading on this thing, and everything I read said that this card was compatible with general MIDI and MT-32.
Looks like I was only half right……
After installing and testing the card (Tested in WFW 3.11, Duke3D, Tyrian, and Doom II) I went to Silpheed’s installer and changed music to “Roland MT-32 or MT-100 Sound Module” assuming that the DB50XG would automatically switch over to TG300B mode. I then started the game, where, after the “Identify this ship” copy id, the game promptly froze. I restarted, tried again, and got the same response. I then tried Zeliard: game plays, but no music, just SFX.
I then went to the almighty internet, and found that the card has to be TOLD to go to TG300B mode, usually with a “sysex” command at the beginning of a MIDI file. Problem is, I’m not dealing with a single MIDI file, but a whole game.
Now the question:
Is it even possible to get MIDI playback in these old sierra games with a DB50XG, Or am I a complete idiot for even asking such a thing?
System specs as follows:
Motherboard: FIRST INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER INC 486 486-GVT-2
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/F/FI … -486-GVT-2.html
Graphics card: ATI-TECHNOLOGIES-INC VGA MACH32 VESA DRAM
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/graphics-cards/A- … -VESA-DRAM.html
I/O Card: DATA TECHNOLOGY-CORPORATION Two IDE AT interface d-298
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-disk-floppy- … face-d-298.html
Sound card: Sound blaster 16 CT 1730/40
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/sound-cards-multi … R-16-ASP-C.html
Game port controller card: CH Products Game card III Automatic
ftp://ftp.chproducts.com/pub/pdf/Legacy_PDF/Qgc3ae14.pdf
3.5floppy, 5.25 floppy, Toshiba 40X CD-ROM, 16 Megs RAM. Western digital Caviar 2420 HD, 425 Mb,
Intel 486DX2 66 Mhz CPU, MS-DOS 6.22, Windows For Workgroups 3.11.
CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM I=E000-EFFF
BUFFERS=30,0
FILES=50
DOS=UMB
LASTDRIVE=Z
FCBS=4,0
DEVICEHIGH /L:1,4560 =C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
DEVICEHIGH /L:1,12048 =C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
DOS=HIGH
SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS /E:256 /P
BREAK=ON
STACKS=9,256
DEVICEHIGH /L:1,18304 =\DEV\TAISATAP.SYS /D:MSCD000 /N:1
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AUTOEXEC.BAT:
SET SOUND=C:\SB16
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS
PATH=C:\ODAPI;%PATH%
PATH %PATH%;C:\MOUSE
SET LMOUSE=C:\MOUSE
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
SET GSFONTS=C:\GSFONTS
LMOUSE.COM
LH /L:0;2,45456 /S SMARTDRV
LH /L:2,27952 \BIN\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000
WIN/3
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Sorry for the loooooong post, but I figure the more info I can give, the better chance I have of getting help.
THANKS!
Open WIIIIIIIIIIIDE for chunky!!
