Most of the drivers are spread throughout the pages of this thread:

https://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum/genres/tand … -the-tandy-pssj

A majority of Sierra, Lucasarts, and Microprose titles are covered. Some of the more-recent work isn't represented though, including Sierra's SCI2 drivers, and those for Ultima VII and VIII. I'll create a new topic on this forum, with everything consolidated into the first post.

Received mine today! Great piece of hardware in conjunction with SofMPU. My application targeting a real MPU worked out of the box with MPU-232+SoftMPU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niLEam4iVkE. I thought that I'd implement support for serial port interfaces directly, but it works so well and tight that I don't really need it. Not a very complex example, just sync/start/stop sent to a drum machine to synchronize with my OPL2 sequencer, but it may be interesting to see some use outside of games and GM playback.

More goofing-off with the MPU-232. I'm sort-of impressed that this was copyright flagged.

https://youtu.be/ZVB8ZUmM8C4

I just ordered one - I'm happy 😉. Very cool project!

best regards
Paddy

More potato-cam...

WarCraft II with the MPU-232 (modified AIL3 driver).

https://youtu.be/wmD4T3-KTe0

Doom befalls the MPU-232...

https://youtu.be/RSFkNLs2fnc

Cloudschatze wrote on 2021-06-21, 20:41:

Doom befalls the MPU-232...

https://youtu.be/RSFkNLs2fnc

Oh, cool. Do you modify doom.exe somehow to make it work with MPU-232?
Will it work with a usual serial to MIDI(DIN) connection + SoftMPU?

Bondi wrote on 2021-06-22, 11:35:

Cloudschatze wrote on 2021-06-21, 20:41:

Doom befalls the MPU-232...

https://youtu.be/RSFkNLs2fnc

Oh, cool. Do you modify doom.exe somehow to make it work with MPU-232?
Will it work with a usual serial to MIDI(DIN) connection + SoftMPU?

Yes. Not just for use with the MPU-232, but with any of the RS-232-capable Roland and Yamaha devices, the SMC chipsets, et al.

The in-place modifications to the DMX library routines are for direct serial port access. SoftMPU isn't leveraged here at all, but it can be loaded concurrently. Have I misunderstood your question?

Cloudschatze wrote on 2021-06-02, 20:55:

More potato-cam...

WarCraft II with the MPU-232 (modified AIL3 driver).

https://youtu.be/wmD4T3-KTe0

Funny thing is that Warcraft II works with SoftMPU.

Kamerat wrote on 2021-06-22, 23:23:

Funny thing is that Warcraft II works with SoftMPU.

Hah! You'd think I would have tested that. 😀 Presumably, any of the titles leveraging an AIL3 driver (MPU401.MDI) are similarly usable with SoftMPU.

Dang, now I'll have to replace that WarCraft II video with an Ultima VIII one or something. 😉

Cloudschatze wrote on 2021-06-22, 21:28:

Bondi wrote on 2021-06-22, 11:35:

Cloudschatze wrote on 2021-06-21, 20:41:

Doom befalls the MPU-232...

https://youtu.be/RSFkNLs2fnc

Oh, cool. Do you modify doom.exe somehow to make it work with MPU-232?
Will it work with a usual serial to MIDI(DIN) connection + SoftMPU?

Yes. Not just for use with the MPU-232, but with any of the RS-232-capable Roland and Yamaha devices, the SMC chipsets, et al.

The in-place modifications to the DMX library routines are for direct serial port access. SoftMPU isn't leveraged here at all, but it can be loaded concurrently. Have I misunderstood your question?

Right, SoftMPU has nothing to do here. I just used it to get output to serial port with unmodified real mode games.
Can you share that modified doom.exe?

Attached is a set of "latest version" executables for DMX-leveraging titles, modified to provide MIDI output via COM1.

1CHEX.EXE	713,017		Chex Quest 1/2
2DOOM.EXE	715,493		The Ultimate Doom
3DOOM2.EXE	709,905		Doom v1.9 and Doom II
4HERETIC.EXE	728,031		Heretic v1.2
5HEXEN.EXE	923,019		Hexen v1.1
6RAP.EXE		474,359		Raptor v1.2
7STRIFE1.EXE	753,215		Strife v1.31

Regarding their use:

• Configure each game for either General MIDI or Sound Canvas music playback. Afterward, edit the .CFG file for the respective game, changing the "snd_mport" value to "1016". (For Raptor, you'll need "MidiPort=3F8" under the "[Music]" section of the SETUP.INI file instead.)
• Configure COM1 for the requisite baud rate prior to starting the game. For the MPU-232 specifically, or any of the RS-232-supporting Roland/Yamaha/et al. devices, the included "SER38400.COM" utility can either be included as part of the AUTOEXEC.BAT routine, or run prior to starting the game. If you already have SoftMPU loaded and configured to provide output via COM1 (outside of this use case), this step can be skipped, as SoftMPU will have already configured the serial port.

Thanks for your work! I don't need it, but I do happen to have a serial MIDI cable that I haven't used before. So I will test when I get the chance.

Cloudschatze wrote on 2021-06-24, 22:13:

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1CHEX.EXE	713,017		Chex Quest 1/2
2DOOM.EXE	715,493		The Ultimate Doom
3DOOM2.EXE	709,905		Doom v1.9 and Doom II
4HERETIC.EXE	728,031		Heretic v1.2
5HEXEN.EXE	923,019		Hexen v1.1
6RAP.EXE		474,359		Raptor v1.2
7STRIFE1.EXE	753,215		Strife v1.31

Regarding their use:

• Configure each game for either General MIDI or Sound Canvas music playback. Afterward, edit the .CFG file for the respective game, changing the "snd_mport" value to "1016". (For Raptor, you'll need "MidiPort=3F8" under the "[Music]" section of the SETUP.INI file instead.)
• Configure COM1 for the requisite baud rate prior to starting the game. For the MPU-232 specifically, or any of the RS-232-supporting Roland/Yamaha/et al. devices, the included "SER38400.COM" utility can either be included as part of the AUTOEXEC.BAT routine, or run prior to starting the game. If you already have SoftMPU loaded and configured to provide output via COM1 (outside of this use case), this step can be skipped, as SoftMPU will have already configured the serial port.

Thanks a lot fot your work and for sharing the files.

Just noticed that I'd included the wrong executables for (Ultimate) Doom and Hexen in the zip file. You'll probably want to re-download that...

Duke NukeMPU-232 3D

https://youtu.be/he5sYUD1NAo

Descent and the MPU-232...

https://youtu.be/jdZCrI9fM10

I'm running out of protected-mode MPU drivers/engines to patch routines for.

Cloudschatze wrote on 2021-07-02, 17:10:

Descent and the MPU-232...

https://youtu.be/jdZCrI9fM10

I'm running out of protected-mode MPU drivers/engines to patch routines for.

wohooo !! thanks great work !

Cloudschatze wrote on 2021-05-25, 23:01:

Most of the drivers are spread throughout the pages of this thread:

https://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum/genres/tand … -the-tandy-pssj

A majority of Sierra, Lucasarts, and Microprose titles are covered. Some of the more-recent work isn't represented though, including Sierra's SCI2 drivers, and those for Ultima VII and VIII. I'll create a new topic on this forum, with everything consolidated into the first post.

Hi Cloudschatze,

Thanks for the amazing work!

Where can we find your great MPU-232 patch for Ultima VII ?

I also checked in vcfed forum and couldn't spot it.

Thanks for your help,
-max

sunmax wrote on 2021-08-11, 16:40:

Where can we find your great MPU-232 patch for Ultima VII ?

I had been looking into a diff/patcher alternative to distribution, and never posted them. Since that effort has stalled, attached are sets of modified drivers for both Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Serpent Isle, as well as Ultima VIII.

These can be used with any RS-232-bearing Roland, Yamaha, or MPU-232 device, any of which can act as an intermediary to a daisy-chained MT-32 or compatible target (as concerns Ultima VII). Similar to most of my other modifications, these are hard-coded for use with COM1, and you will need to set the baud rate of the serial port appropriately beforehand. If 38400bps is the appropriate rate for your system/setup, you can set that with the following:

http://www.symphoniae.com/misc/sermidi/SER38400.COM