First post, by sirlemonhead
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Hi everyone,
I have an old 386 pc with an SB16 in it, and I've recently bought an MT-32 which i'm hooking up to the soundcard using a gameport to midi connector.
I'm having trouble getting the MT-32 to work with MT-32 specific games, on dos 6.22
The soundcard itself has all the drivers installed and works fine for digitial sound, and general midi. If I try run monkey island 1 (with the 'r' parameter) - I get no music from the MT-32. It's not receiving midi messages and the green light doesn't light up.
If I run Monkey2 (again with 'r' param) I get an error "Unable to initialize SoundDriver" and the game dumps me back to the Dos prompt.
I tried Day of the tentacle, set to use the roland music option in setup, and that too, like Monkey1, just doesn't seem to send data to the mt-32
I know the MT-32 is hooked up correctly, as I can configure Doom2 to use General Midi, and that will send data to the MT-32 which itself then plays the music (the midi message green light blinks, and the numbers on the LED screen flick) It's definitely working in some capacity.
Anyone got an ideas? Do I need to do anything specific to enable MT-32 with the Sb16? Am I meant to have the card configured to use certain ports only? I did remove the SB16 and changed some of the jumpers as they weren't on defaults (the Midi port is now at 300) but that made no difference.
I don't have a usb->midi cable to test things on my Windows 7 machine, and my other old pcs are out of action at the moment so I'm stuck testing on this one machine.
Any suggestions I could try would be really appreciated!
