I'm making this thread in this board because I am unsure of the stability of this game on real hardware.

When you try to use MPU-401 for music, Dosbox will hard lock (requring to be SIGKILL'ed) if a second movie finishes playing. If you set the music to just be the onboard OPL chip of your respective soundblaster it doesn't hard lock.

For example:
Start dosbox with cputype=pentium (or pentium_slow if using 0.74)
Let the pentium logo finish playing
Let the Origin logo finish playing
Hard freeze.

Another example:
Skip the intel logo before it finishes playing.
Get into a game.
Land on a planet or do anything that triggers a movie.
Hard freeze after movie has played or is skipped.

This is also only if you are using core=dynamic, core=normal runs fine.

I noticed Priv2 uses AIL, would updating or swapping the AIL device files fix this problem? Or is this ultimately a dosbox issue?

Can anyone confirm that the game isn't prone to crashing when you play with a SB16 + MPU-401 for music? (I noticed the MPU-401 refuses to work if it's not in intelligent mode, if you set it to uart in DosBOX it fails to detect a MPU-401, Privateer 2 seems to not have a generic uart MIDI AIL driver...)