"Tand-Em" Tandy Emulator

[Great Hierophant]

The AppleWin emulator can emulate two mockingboards in Ultima V. But I haven't heard the emulator speak, I suppose the authors of the software can upgrade the program sometime down the road.

Would be interesting to hear Ultima V connected to an MT-32. I doubt if it had special sysex messages, probably just the stock instruments.

AppleWin 1.12.6.0 offers some basic support for the Mockingboard's speech chip, at least enough to determine whether a game uses it or not.

[NewRisingSUn]

Why is that? Are the Aplle IIgs sounds even better than Tandy's?

Read this thread.

I could really use true MT-32 midi rips of these tunes.

Here's Serpent Isle. Tell me if you also need Black Gate.

(The Bard's Library are likely GM optimized.)

The Bard's Library are optimized for the deaf. And they've been converted with Markus Hein's crappy XMI2MID converter that gets the tempos wrong.

[Marten]

The Bard's Library are optimized for the deaf.

LOL!  Quote of the Month!

[Great Hierophant]

Tell me if you also need Black Gate.

Oh yeah, I would love any Ultima MT-32 rips.

[NewRisingSUn]

Oh yeah, I would love any Ultima MT-32 rips.

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The only other Ultima MT-32 would from Ultima 6, and that one is just a cheap runtime Adlib conversion.

[Great Hierophant]

What is mttool and is it necessary for the proper loading of the sysex and setting of the module?  I am using Midiex to load the Sysex.

Also, UWI, UWII, SE and MD all support the MT-32.  UW1's music, by George Alistair Sanger (The Fat Man) is especially good.

[NewRisingSUn]

What is mttool and is it necessary for the proper loading of the sysex and setting of the module?

The init.syx contain everything necessary. I just use MTTOOL to also reset the unit before and lower the main volume a bit to prevent clipping.

Also, UWI, UWII, SE and MD all support the MT-32. UW1's music, by George Alistair Sanger (The Fat Man) is especially good.

I guess you want them too. Here's UW1 and UW2. You're welcome. :roll:

I'll get to SE and MD later.

[Great Hierophant]

It is interesting that the UW music does not contain a sysex file, so unless the commands are embedded in midi files themselves then its very impressive that such music can be had on an MT-32 compatible without tweaking.  

Where can you get mttool?

[NewRisingSUn]

Where can you get mttool?

Nowhere, because I wrote it myself.

[SirGraham]

By the way, it's really weird that it doesn't work under DOSBox

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DosBox doesn't handle Int13 redirections well.

Well, it appears that your DOS-wrapper of KQ1PCjr can run under DOSBox, but only if you boot MS-DOS first inside the emulator. However, even then there are no sounds. If loaded under the Tandy mode there will be sounds, but DOSBox's Tandy emulation tends to get messy when booting MS-DOS 6.22 so it's not a good option.