Intelligent MP401 games (like SCI titles) running with AWE32 and wavetable \ VOGONS

Intelligent MP401 games (like SCI titles) running with AWE32 and wavetable

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First post, by DaveJustDave

Posted on 2026-01-29, 18:09

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So I finally got around to getting my primary CT3900 rig running with a dreamblaster X2GS.

So the two usecases I'm focused on

1: routing midi to the AWE32 EMU8000 in MT32 mode
2.routing midi to the Dreamblaster

On games like monkey island, it appears to work--presumably going straight to the dreamblaster if I don't run aweutil, and to the EMU8000 if I do.

For SCI based sierra games (SQ3, PQ2, KQ4, Silpheed) it doesn't seem to work.
I tried running SoftMPU which to my understanding just sits as a translation layer in front of the MPU port, but it hangs after recognizing my hardware.
This is on a fast 486, so I tried using setmul to disable the level 1 cache, but it still hangs.

Anyone care to pontificate? thanks in advance

I have no clue what I'm doing! If you want to watch me fumble through all my retro projects, you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrDavejustdave