First post, by squee333
Hello!
I've recently decided to relive my youth through master of orion, however I am having great troubles getting the midi music to work. 🙁
I have tried Master of Orion I & II, and music works on neither.
I've been playing the games for a few days, but without the music, the atmosphere is lost. I downloaded "FreeOrion" but it's not the same as the older versions. 🙁
I've tried both using dosbox, and vdmsound. I even tried following through the gravis ultrasound tutorial, to hopefully get something: nothing.
I have the dosbox settings as:
sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
and the game settings match. I've tried with GUS turned off, i've tried
mpu401=intelligent & uart
I tried installing "timidity++" and configuring dosbox to it, and that didn't seem to help.
The only things that seem to work is:
-peculiarly, in MOO1, the music seems to work all through the intro, and at the menu, but then vanishes during gameplay. it does return when i go back to the main menu.
-in MOO1, I get a strange "double click" sound when it's loading.
I've tried MOO2-win95 version. I've tried patching both games to the newest versions.
I've tried downloading and playing midi files as a sanity check - and they played fine.
I've scoured the net, and nothing i've found on forums has helped.
when I type
mixer /listmidi, i get
0 microsoft gs sw synth
1 timidity
Somebody please help me take over the galaxy.
Regards,
Tom.
