First post, by Dr. Rabbit
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For starters, all this necessary unnecessary info about my computer, which you will probably just leak somwhere and I'll get tons of viruses. Just kidding!
1. Dunno, probably some shitty Asus or something.
2. Intel Pentium M 1.70 GHZ (better than Core2Duo!)
3. 1,50 GB.
4. ATI MOBILITY RADEON 7500, 64MB DDR (bullshit, more like 16)
5. Some integrated SoundMAX, doesn't wanna tell it's model number or anything.
5. WinXp Pro.
7. The Terminator: Future Shock/Skynet, latest versions; 1.30 for FS, 1.0 for SN.
8. Can't get Ultrasound to work for music. Sound works, but pretty shitty.
9. Always.
10. Well I WOULD use SB16 for sounds and GUS for music, but since it doesn't work, SB16 sounds and MPU-401 for music.
11. You mean in DOSBox? "Overlay" Default resolutions for DOS and games.
12. 0.73.
13. EVERYTHING! Yes, have read readme.
Ok, so, Gravis Ultrasound doesn't work for music in the two terminator FPS-games. When trying to set MIDI in the SETUP.EXE to any of the available Ultrasound settings (Gravis Ultrasound, Gravis Ultrasound Max or Gravis Ultrasound Ace) it says "ERROR: MIDI driver could not initialize."
At first I thought the problem was in the port, as it ONLY wants to use 220, which is Sound Blaster's port. For me, GUS is in 240. So I try to switch SB's and GUS' ports around, nothing; still the same error. I try to use a different port; same error. The next idea I got is that it tries to use the wrong IRQ and DMA ports as you can't configure the IRQ or DMA from the setup program, so I fiddle around with the games' files and found a HMISET.CFG and SETUP.INI which has some settings regarding GUS. Namely, SETUP.INI has [SYSTEM] and [MIDISETTINGS] colums with some settings. I notice that it has the port, DMA and IRQ settings there, and they do not correspond to my dosbox.cfg GUS settings. So I try to switch every GUS-board's port, IRQ and DMA columns to 240, 5, 3.
STILL THE SAME ERROR. Okay, goddamnit. Moving on to HMISET.CFG, I notice the [MIDI] column's settings change to whatever MIDI-card you have chosen from the setup, and It's SETUP.INI-ordered port. So I'm thinking that even if the card doesn't want to work in the setup, maybe changing this would make it working! Nope, wrong. Still no GUS music in the game.
WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME GAME?! At this point I gave up and concluded that like SkyNET, the games have become self-aware and just plain REFUSE to work with GUS. I'll just have stick to MPU-401 music then, which I actually like fine, but would like to hear what the games' music sounds like with GUS.
So if you guys could figure out what the hell is the problem, please very much do so and inform me. I'll attach Shock's SETUP.INI (the files are identical amongst the games) to this post if you guys can fiddle around with it better than I did.
I wish you luck. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Whoops, double attachement!