First post, by Boohyaka
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Hi guys, in my P3 (Asus P3B-F, 1 ISA slot) I'm running a non-PnP AWE32 that I love dearly (CT3900) for late DOS games, and a SBLive! for Win98.
I also have a 486 with an ESS1868, a MusicQuest clone (from Keropi, cheers!) connected to my different midi boxes, and recently I've come across a cheap MPU-401 so of course I had to have it. I also have a Behringer external sound mixer.
So now I thought - it would be great to actually connect both the computers to my different midi devices, with a midi switcher and an audio switch, all sources from both computers (soundcards+midi) connected to the sound mixer, yadi yada. I'll just install the MIF-IPC+MPU-401 in the 486, then move the MusicQuest clone in the P3, etc... all excited by the new project.
I guess most of you have seen it coming a while away: it stroke me last night when designing the whole setup...only 1 ISA slot in the P3, used by the AWE32 🙁
So i could just skip using the MusicQuest clone and use the AWE32 for midi, but of course it has the midi hanging note bug (and maybe overflow too?)
Another option would be to swap the ESS1868 (which has a bugfree midi interface I believe?) and the AWE32 between the 2 builds, but I don't like it, as a 486 with SBPro and P3 with SB16 makes more sense with the games I dedicate to play on both.
Do I have other options I haven't thought about ? What would you do? Cheers!