I've been sniffing around the internet looking for a Yamaha DB50XG for my Vortex 2 based sound card, and i've found both a "real deal" DB50XG and an NEC clone of the DB60XG. i've been reading through the forums and have learned the the DB60 the same as the DB50 but with an onboard audio input. -- …

wd wrote: Any midi problem with some game? just want to make sure i am using the optimal settings for my hardware... its kind of hard to know what to chose if you don't know what all the values mean. .

the following is from a DosBox config file: midi] # mpu401: Type of MPU-401 to emulate. # Possible values: intelligent, uart, none # device: Device that will receive the MIDI data from MPU-401. # Possible values: default, win32, alsa, oss, coreaudio, coremidi, mt32, none # config: Special …

TiMidity++ does not do linear additive synthesis and is not an MT-32 emulator. maybe that's why the game takes so long to load.. i prefer the General MIDI audio source in most cases anyway. now i have to go find out what "linear addative synthesis" means 😉

Increase your cycle count? 3000 is very low. I increased cycles to 12000 -- it doesn't seem to be helping. in any case all the games i am interested in playing are super old -- (most designed to even run on a 286 processor), and I have a QX6700 processor in this PC right now. I don't think CPU …

As far as your roland problem I am still trying to bend my head around as to what you are actually doing. Are you using a a real Roland Mt-32 and telling dosbox to use? I have included a screen shot of the available option in my sierra installer. the one that is currently selected ("General MIDI …

I think TiMidity++ was working all along. When I have Timidity selected as the MIDI output device and select the Roland MT-32, Mt-100, LAPC-I audio source instead of "General MIDI for Roland MPU MIDI interface" while running my older sierra games, something really strange happens: these games take …

I've been able to use TiMidity++ on my Vista PC that is running Business edition, but for some reason when I try to install it on my Home PC, which runs Vista Ultimate, I cannot seem to get the TiMidity++ to load. DosBox does not list the TiMidity++ driver when i type mixer /listmidi at the Z: …

Thanks for the tip.. and the quickl reply! much appreciated!

sorry to resurect a long-dead thread, but i'm just starting this journy, trying to get higher quality software wavetable synthesys than is available- from the Microsft software synth." Trying to do this in Windows Vista is an even bigger pain b/c the MIDI Mapper conrols have mysteriously disapeared …

they just allow the standard Microsoft Wavetable softsynth to do the work, which is fine. My concern is the quality of the softsynth vs the older general midi cards. i can't believe that a software solution would work better than a dedicated hardware chip to do the work. my vintage games sound "OK" …

DOSBox does not use your native card's anything. SoundBlaster is emulated, AdLib is emulated, MPU-401 interface is emulated (and MIDI instructions are sent to the host OS, so whatever MIDI synth is set in Windows will be the one that gets used). so your saying that getting a kick-ass wavetable …

Hello everyone, A friend of mine pointed me to this site in hopes that I might get a work-related windows-only app on my Mac and instead I found something infinately more interesting: a ton of information about how I might play my old Sierra adventure games in their full General MIDI glory on a …