Capacitors can be replaced. Also, try vinegar to dissolve some of the corrosion and oil to lubricate the battery door. You can always dunk it on isopropyl alcohol to clean it later.

shan2752 wrote on 2025-07-11, 23:56:

Getting new components, where possible, increases the odds of that happening. I would get the PCMidi Add on just in case the LAPC fails. I have an SCC-1 in my P3, so I am preparing for that to eventually die. It is approaching 30 years old now, and capacitors degrade over time even without use.

Fair enough, but Intelligent Mode MPU is one thing: I could get an Ensoniq SoundScape-based card to cover that end pretty well. Emulation-based options aside, is there anything out there that would effectively serve as a 1-to-1 replacement of a Roland LA device enabling proper instruments for music AND SOUND EFFECTS on supporting DOS games that pre-date General MIDI? The list of such titles from MicroProse & LucasArts is not that small; for fans of Origin and/or Sierra things get even more complicated because of the different Roland LA generations and how games varied in their support for each.

The PicoGus with McCake or the TM32 both come to mind. However, they both serve a different purpose than the MK1869.

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-07-14, 19:21:

The PicoGus with McCake or the TM32 both come to mind. However, they both serve a different purpose than the MK1869.

Both are Munt-based: emulated, requiring the Roland ROMs.