First post, by jheronimus
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I'm thinking about getting myself a Roland MT-32 for a 486 DOS gaming machine. I'm currently thinking about going the AWE64 CT4500 + SoftMPU + MT-32 route and later maybe "upgrade" to a CT-1747-based AWE32 or SB16. My final goal is to have the versatility of SB+OPL3+MT32+GM in a single machine without having to employ a second PC for munt emulation or changing ISA cards every time I want to play a different game. I am mostly playing RPGs like Lands of Lore/Ultima Underworld, DOOM and Duke Nukem-based shooters, some quests like The Dig and Gabriel Knight.
A couple of questions:
1) how accurate/bug-free is SoftMPU? I'm just wondering: if it's 100% issue free, why do people still insist on getting an MPU-401 in most threads and YouTube videos I've seen?
2) how resource-hungry is it? I'm going to use it on a 486dx2@66/12 MB RAM machine with no L2 cache running DOS 6.22 if that matters.
3) I know there is a Roland's MT2GM tool to remap MT32 to general MIDI. How accurate is that vs a SC-55?
4) provided I don't use a real MPU-401, I just need a SoundBlaster, a GamePort-Midi cable and a MT-32, right?
Thanks!