First post, by Grestorn
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Hi there,
I just revived my old MT-32 (it turned out that the PSU was bad) and I'm currently installing all kinds of old games I bought more than 10 years ago...
Some of them, especially old Legend text adventures ("Spellcasting 101", "Gateway", "Death Gate", "Eric the Unready" etc.) have excellent MT-32 support, but they all require a full fledged MPU-401 with working IRQ timing.
If you use one of the Creative MPU-401 emulations or the one provided by Windows, the games complain that they don't get any interrupts. It seems that they base their music timing on these interrupts, and simple MPU emulations don't provide them.
Fortunately, DOSBox does emulate those interrupts!!!! Horray! Finally a way to play those old MT-32 tunes!
But there's one drawback. The timing is a little off. The more complicated a piece is, the more delay can be percieved. Some tunes are really quite off key because of that.
I wonder if it's somehow possible to adjust the way the MPU-401 emulation is generating these interrupts, to make the timing more stable. Anyone got an idea how to do that?
But anyway, those were the times. Just started to play Gateway I again. What a great game! I miss Legend... Too bad that they tried to be mainstream and failed in the end...