First post, by Elia1995
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- Oldbie
Hello, people of Vogons !!!
Today I bought a MIDI cable (round in and out to gameport) so I can connect my MIDI keyboard to my sound cards with a gameport, I tried it on the Sound Blaster CT2950 in my 486SX2 Olivetti M4 434S. I can play .mid MIDI files with MegaMid without issues and some sound even better than the FM synth of the sound card (notice: I'm just using a MIDI keyboard and NOT a MIDI module like an MT-32 or SC-55 yet !!!), but when I try to use the "General MIDI" option in games, after I select "save & run" in the setup, the whole PC starts to struggle and lag, the games barely start and I hear nothing at all... what's wrong ? It can play .mid files with MegaMid and can't play MIDI music from the games engines ? 😕
I only tried with Raptor and Doom and it does the exact same thing with both games... well, Doom already lags on its own on the 486, but it's playable, now it takes up to 2 entire minutes to just make the "Ultimate Doom" picture appear with General MIDI in the configuration. I do not think that it's due of the MIDI device being a keyboard and not a MIDI module, as the sound card doesn't care what's connected to it as long as it is a MIDI device that can play sounds.
According to Google, I'm the only person that's having this issue...
Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11
Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard