First post, by raaboof
Hi,
I recently found some time to test out my PCMIDI MPU (http://www.pcmidi.eu/pcmidi.html). As a synth, I use Munt running on my modern PC. In general, it works flawlessly -- for example in Windows 3.11 all is fine, and so far all the games have worked without an issue except Monkey Island 1. The symptom is that when I start the game, MIDI data comes through to Munt and plays fine. But as soon as I restore a saved game, MIDI is lost. Using MidiOX, I see "All Notes Off" being sent to all channels, and after that, nothing. Restarting the game fixes the issue, until I restore a game again.
I have also tried to slow down the machine (80486 33Mhz) with tool called AT-SLOW.COM, becuse in some discussions out there it was mentioned MI may have all sorts of sound issues with 80486 and later HW. That didn't help either. Likewise, I have tried with and without running MusicQuest MQSETUP in autoexec.bat.
I have a SoundBlaster Vibra CT2800 in the same system, but to the best of my understanding, I have its MPU interface disabled (no "P330" parameter on the SET BLASTER line).
MONKEY.EXE is of version 5.0.19.
My next steps will be:
- Test without SoundBlaster in the System.
- Test without PCMIDI, using SoundBlaster MPU interface, with and without SoftMPU.
- Test with a real MT-32, although that will take time, I'm waiting for mine to arrive from Ebay.
- Maybe try to Monkey Island 1 486 and MIDI pathes, although to my understanding, my MONKEY.EXE should be fine in terms of version.
Anyway, just wanted to leave this here in case someone has had similar issues, or runs into it. I'll update this in case I find out anything.