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Wanted to get back into the DOS era of software and games (it’s what I grew up on.) I would have preferred something older, but I ended up with a Slot 1 Pentium III/500. Fortunately it has an ISA slot so all the truly DOS friendly sound cards.

Specs: Gateway 4W4 Something Pentium III/500 384MB Yamaha YMF715 ISA sound card (SoundBlaster Pro and OPL3) S3 Trio 3D/2X AGP mt32-pi (Roland MT-32 and General MIDI) Generic Compact Flash-IDE adapter Gravis Gamepad that still has that little joystick you screw in. 20” Dell Trinitron (forgot the model)

Testing it with Tyrian here, but my plan is to play through Ultima Underworld soon on it.

What’s everybody else’s vintage computer of choice?

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[-] cognitivegears 4 points 2 years ago

I hope you do another post just on that Roland MT-32 - I’m still looking for one of those myself they were absolutely amazing.

[-] deepthaw 2 points 2 years ago

Will do. That's actually an mt32-pi, which is a Raspberry Pi based MT-32 emulator which works pretty much flawlessly and handles General MIDI as well.

https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi

The mt32-pi has really taken off in the MiSTerFPGA community, so there's less resources about using it with vintage hardware (or places to buy prebuilt ones that use a MIDI jack) but it works great for that.

[-] cognitivegears 1 points 2 years ago

Ah got you, I actually have one for my MiSTer - using it with real vintage hardware sounds amazing though. The prices of the real MT32's are such that I can't really justify getting one (well, until I find one at a good deal anyway :) ) Having a MT32-PI is nearly as good for a lot of cases though.

[-] deepthaw 1 points 2 years ago

I’ve been using it for GM as well as mt-32. At least until I find a way to easily hook it and my X2GS waveblaster card up and manage the audio properly.

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