DosBox with Leisure Suit Larry 3 through a Roland MT32 on a MAC!

I have had a Roland MT32 in the cupboard for years. I remember using the old MT32 back in the late 80's and early 90's with heaps of games like most from Sierra. The music was fantastic for the era and even challenged the Amiga's in their day. The last time I used the MT32 was on a PC I set up just for it. This became tedious so I got rid of the PC and put the MT32 in the cupboard again.

I then thought I would check out DosBox again and see what advances had been made and it became clear that I would be able to use the MT32 again on my Mac so I gave it a go. Here is the result! This will work on pretty much any old PC game that supports MT32. I uses the MIDI port on the FW1884 to transmit the data. AS you can see the result is perfect, unlike any MT32 emulation I have heard.

Any questions leave a comment. Enjoy.

Category:

Gaming

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• Roland
• MT32
• MT-32
• Leisure
• Suit
• Larry
• MIDI
• DOSBox
• Music
• Retro
• gaming

[laffer35]

I just got one of these in the mail but I lack the cables to connect it.

I'm guessing I'll need some sort of midi to usb cable and I also need a European power supply for it (came with a US one)... or maybe a converter.

Can't wait to try it out :o

[dentunes]

@laffer35 The power supply you will find in any music store in your country. Cost you about 15 euro. Don't use a converter. It simply runs on a DC 12V (I think, or 9V) supply which is really easy to come by and cheaper than a converter. MIDI to USb cable will do the trick. Edirol and MAudio do some good ones.

[laffer35]

@dentunes

Finally got it connected properly a few weeks ago now, really cool listening to the various MT-32 soundtracks.

[dentunes]

@laffer35 Great to hear! I just bought an old Atari ST hoping to get the MT-32 working with it as well.

[Btushinsky83]

did you try to Setup Dosbox to get a better Resoultion?

[dentunes]

@Btushinsky83 Tried, didn't succeed and was happy how it was. Any suggestions?

[loomp]

@dentunes I'm using Wingroove with the Roland MT32 option on and even though the sound is great it has nothing on the actual Roland MT32 device (i sent a PM to you and since the Youtube is private you have respond to that PM) the Sierra help pages website gave me a program that allows me to click an icon to load this game without typing anything and I find my NES USB controller work well for moving my character over using the clumsy keyboard interface keys. ScummVM works with MIDI too.

[fireicer]

lol excellent rig classic game

[dentunes]

@ziochicho Sounds great. If you have any questions let us know. General MIDI in some games are better though don't have the character that the MT32 has. I hook up my gigging keyboard (Korg PA800) to get General MIDI sound and use it the same way as the MT32 (Through MIDI). Good luck with your search. I paid $60AUD for my MT32 about a year ago. eBay is your friend.

[ziochicho]

Totally awesome, man! Thanks for that little "tutorial". I'm trying to get my hands on an MT-32 and maybe this will help when I try to set it up with DOSBox. I think the MT-32 versions of the soundtracks give the games so much more depth. I think the general MIDI versions have a certain charm that I remember as a kid when I played Quest For Glory and King's Quest, but I didn't know what I was missing.

[dentunes]

@DontrelleRoosevelt check out the web site Al Lowe's web site. It has all the music from LSL for download there.

[DontrelleRoosevelt]

Wow! I wish I could get a copy of the entire soundtrack being played through the MT32. Just incredible.