Quest Studios has both GM version and MT-32 version (which should be suitable for LAPC-I) of game MIDI files.

I'm not sure whether Laura's MIDI Heaven has unaltered songs, but I know Battledrome soundtrack sounds pretty weird (too fast) when played using WinAmp, so the files are probably unaltered. After all, they sound "raw" to me.

Try Game Music base http://www.mirsoft.info/gmb/

nice will check those links my friends 😀

now I need to get a nice Roland mt32/la aware player , gsplay and playmid don't have correct results on LA synths, they are made for newer ones from what I understood

keropi wrote:

nice will check those links my friends 😀

now I need to get a nice Roland mt32/la aware player , gsplay and playmid don't have correct results on LA synths, they are made for newer ones from what I understood

You just need to make sure that the SySex information is included in the mid file.

I have a few DOS midi players on my Time-machine. I'll check what they are and post them here.

mfplay - updated gsplay
Re: Reset MT-32 and SC-50 from DOS(Box) batch file?

I mostly use xmiplay.exe of Miles Sound System 3.x, it is aware of MT-32 and plays XMI files. But for games using modified patches an appropriate XMI containing SySex information should be played before the actual song XMI.

Alternatively you can use xplay.exe of MSS 2.0 with mt32mpu.adv driver.

XMIPLAY.EXE (MSS 3.x): http://www.mirsoft.info/gamemids-help.php
XPLAY.EXE (MSS 2.0): http://www.ke5fx.com/

And there's always this place:
http://files.abandonia.com/music/

Not sure how kosher that site is regarded here though...?
Please correct me if ...etc

thanks all for the suggestions, will try and report back... MFPLAY seem to only support GS though, gsplay was playing midis wrong for me... never used XMIPLAY, not sure where to grab xmis though

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You just need to make sure that the SySex information is included in the mid file.

or you have extra file with sysex.
gs/mfplay plays mt32 midis perfectly.

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

You just need to make sure that the SySex information is included in the mid file.

or you have extra file with sysex.
gs/mfplay plays mt32 midis perfectly.

well, I got Monkey Island and SQ3 theme song midis from Quest Studios (for mt32 ofcourse) and gsplay played them like crap. That's why I started looking for a player/good midis.

have you played extra file with sysex first?

and of course midi player is not all you need. you also need real mt-32 (or compatible) or emulator (munt is the only one right now)

extra file with sysex? nope, I wa under the impression sysex is embedded on the midi file? care to elaborate more on this?
I do try on a pc with a LAPC-I and midis play through it btw.

you should see sysex message at the bottom of mfplay window when it start s playing.
also compare how it works in dosbox + munt.

yes I did some reading and understood that for some mids I needs to send the sysex before playback... I was under the impression sai sysex was embedded but apparently that's not always the case ... thanks!

XMI is a native MIDI file format used by legacy MSS libraries, thus every game that used MSS contains music in XMI format. Sometimes there are plain XMI files lying somewhere, but more often you need to rip them out of game resources.

Alternatively, there's a MIDIFORM utility included in MSS 2.0 that converts any MID file to a XMI one.