I've recently swapped the ES1868F with a Yamaha YMF719 as the host for the WP32 McCake and these Legend Entertainment titles are still giving me grief.
Everything else I've tested both cards with, along with SoftMPU has worked. The games which don't work regardless of SoftMPU loaded or not are:
Gateway^
Gateway II^
Superhero League of Hoboken^
Gabriel Knight*
Police Quest 4*
Quest for Glory 4*
Leisure Suit Larry 6*
Ringworld Revenge of the Patriarch
^ The game locks up at some point in the intro when started with SoftMPU
* I believe these should all work without SoftMPU, but although I get no errors about initialising MIDI, I get no music either. Sound effects are fine.
I have two slight differences in behaviour with the ESS1868F vs the YMF719 cards with the Legend titles;
- With the ESS card I can set unisound to use IRQ2 (or 9), and SoftMPU will happily detect the MPU interface (I use it at 5 or 7 most of the time).
- With the Yamaha card although Unisound will initialise the card at IRQ2 (or 9), SoftMPU will not detect it when set to that number. It's happy at normal IRQ values such as 5 and 7 though.
Neither card set to any combination of IRQ stops the Legend games from locking up. The games work fine in Adlib mode, and the same copy of those games works fine on a 286 with a real Roland MPU401 card.
I have tried with and without the LEGMPU.COM tsr, as well as the alternative GATEFIX.EXE loader. Neither of those make any difference to the lockups.
I have 43 other titles that work great with SoftMPU loaded. There are a couple in here which I don't believe are intelligent-mode examples (Bloodnet?), but without SoftMPU loaded I got no MIDI output at all, or error messages:
Another World
Cool Croc Twins
Flash Back
Gods
Magic Pockets
BloodNet
Codename: Iceman
Conquest of Camelot
Conquest of the Longbow
Elvira
Elvira 2 The Jaws of Cerberus
Future Wars
Kings Quest 1
Kings Quest 4
Laura Bow
Laura Bow 2
Leisure Suit Larry (VGA)
Leisure Suit Larry 2
Leisure Suit Larry 3
Leisure Suit Larry 5
Monkey Island 2 LeChucks Revenge
Police Quest 1
Police Quest 2
Police Quest 3
Quest for Glory 1
Quest for Glory 2
Quest for Glory 3
Space Quest 1
Space Quest 3
Space Quest 4
Star Trek Judgement Rites
The Secret of Monkey Island
Mega Traveller 2
Ultima VI
Ultima Worlds of Adventure Martian Dreams
Ultima Worlds of Adventure The Savage Empire
A-Train
Populous
Wing Commander
Wing Commander 2
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