Check Bought these (retro) hardware today - it was sold to one of us...

They've been up around that price for years now I think? They truly fall into the collectors item category in my mind - you can still get an MT-32 for reasonable money and there are plenty of options for intelligent MPU-401s these days. Same goes for the SCC1.

Yup, if you want intelligent mode, just get a HardMPU card or a v2 MusicQuest remake card.

Damn! I guess i best hold onto mine that I picked up in a plain brown box of that same size and type from a Goodwill for about $10 USD back in the early 2000s then?! Only thing I never like about the card was that it had hanging note issues as I recall, and the fact that it is such a large expansion card being a full size card, but the tower PC I have it in, didn't have brackets for the back of it, so I have a small box or something under it that supports it inside the case it is installed in.

Had no idea these were fetching that kind of money. Now that I have an MT-32 and my MT-200 maybe I should look at selling it?!

It is a large card so hard to fit, but I’ve never come across hanging note issues, I’ve had the card since 92.

Yeap it got to be so bad in the TX97E Asus board I have it installed in, that I had the reset sysex commands in batch files in the autoexec path statement so I could just type it at anytime. I remember it happening most when exiting Sierra games and I think when exiting the original Wing Commander.

CrossBow777 wrote:

Yeap it got to be so bad in the TX97E Asus board I have it installed in, that I had the reset sysex commands in batch files in the autoexec path statement so I could just type it at anytime. I remember it happening most when exiting Sierra games and I think when exiting the original Wing Commander.

Could it be timing issues with your vastly faster system than what it was designed for?

price of an iphone?
how much will iphone be worth after a few years?

Prices are about what they were when the card was released, without taking inflation into account so still a bargain 😀

dionb wrote:

CrossBow777 wrote:

Yeap it got to be so bad in the TX97E Asus board I have it installed in, that I had the reset sysex commands in batch files in the autoexec path statement so I could just type it at anytime. I remember it happening most when exiting Sierra games and I think when exiting the original Wing Commander.

Could it be timing issues with your vastly faster system than what it was designed for?

I running on an MMX 233 with no issues

dionb wrote:

CrossBow777 wrote:

Yeap it got to be so bad in the TX97E Asus board I have it installed in, that I had the reset sysex commands in batch files in the autoexec path statement so I could just type it at anytime. I remember it happening most when exiting Sierra games and I think when exiting the original Wing Commander.

Could it be timing issues with your vastly faster system than what it was designed for?

Possible I guess? But I actually have both primary and secondary cache disabled on that system when playing Wing Commander which drops it down according to benchmarks to about a 386 25mhz system in speed.

I haven't fired up that system in over 4 years, but it is an old Asus TX97e with an AMD K-5 200mhz in it, 32mb ram and like a 20gb HDD I believe? I also have it paired with an original release SB-16 that I added the DSP chip to for Q-sound support that was available separately back in the day. But I disabled the Midi addressing on the SB-16 and have the LAPC-I line out going into the Line-In on the SB-16 to provide the mixed audio output.