Ethan Duerichen
Spaceman
Yes, it's a Privateer problem again...
Not too long ago, I got a Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold and a Roland LAPC-I for my computer and I've been fishing through my older games playing them mostly to hear the difference in sound using General MIDI, instead of AdLib. Privateer has been giving me trouble though.
Before, Privateer wouldn't even start; it would just reboot the computer. So I read up on previous threads on this site for what's been done in the past. Following those instructions, this is my current setup.
CONFIG.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB,NOAUTO
DEVICEhigh=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
devicehigh=c:\windows\emm386.exe RAM 16384 /I=B000-B7FF
devicehigh=c:\windows\ifshlp.sys
devicehigh=c:\windows\setver.exe
STACKS=18,256
FILESHIGH=25
BUFFERSHIGH=25
SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM C:\WINDOWS /P
Lastdrive=Z
AUTOEXEC.BAT
@echo off
path c:\windows\command
SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
loadhigh=c:\windows\ctcm.exe
loadhigh=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND\AWEUTIL.com /EM:GM /key-
c:\mixerset /MA:220 /VO:255 /MI:255 /LI:255 /TR:225 /BA:245
With this setup, I get mixed results. Sometimes, the intro will play for a second, including music, and then either the game and music will freeze, or the computer restarts. Other times, it will freeze or reboot as soon as the first note is played. It sounds like a conflict, but I've tried physically removing my LAPC-I and it makes no difference. It shouldn't matter anyway, since the LAPC-I is set on 300h. If anybody can help me with this, I'd greatly appreciate it.
I also have been working on a roundabout method to this problem. I have my LAPC-I and AWE64's MIDI ports connected for MIDI recording. I've actually had games playing music perfectly looped through the LAPC-I and out the AWE64. However, to do that I've needed some program running in the background using MIDI Thru on the AWE64. So far, the only programs that can do this are for Windows. If anyone knows of some DOS program that can do this, then that can also get Privateer to work with the AWE64. Privateer works just fine with the LAPC-I, except the music sounds terrible since it doesn't use a General MIDI Instrument set and it only uses Channels 1-8 and 10, not all 16 MIDI channels.
Not too long ago, I got a Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold and a Roland LAPC-I for my computer and I've been fishing through my older games playing them mostly to hear the difference in sound using General MIDI, instead of AdLib. Privateer has been giving me trouble though.
Before, Privateer wouldn't even start; it would just reboot the computer. So I read up on previous threads on this site for what's been done in the past. Following those instructions, this is my current setup.
CONFIG.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB,NOAUTO
DEVICEhigh=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
devicehigh=c:\windows\emm386.exe RAM 16384 /I=B000-B7FF
devicehigh=c:\windows\ifshlp.sys
devicehigh=c:\windows\setver.exe
STACKS=18,256
FILESHIGH=25
BUFFERSHIGH=25
SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM C:\WINDOWS /P
Lastdrive=Z
AUTOEXEC.BAT
@echo off
path c:\windows\command
SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
loadhigh=c:\windows\ctcm.exe
loadhigh=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND\AWEUTIL.com /EM:GM /key-
c:\mixerset /MA:220 /VO:255 /MI:255 /LI:255 /TR:225 /BA:245
With this setup, I get mixed results. Sometimes, the intro will play for a second, including music, and then either the game and music will freeze, or the computer restarts. Other times, it will freeze or reboot as soon as the first note is played. It sounds like a conflict, but I've tried physically removing my LAPC-I and it makes no difference. It shouldn't matter anyway, since the LAPC-I is set on 300h. If anybody can help me with this, I'd greatly appreciate it.
I also have been working on a roundabout method to this problem. I have my LAPC-I and AWE64's MIDI ports connected for MIDI recording. I've actually had games playing music perfectly looped through the LAPC-I and out the AWE64. However, to do that I've needed some program running in the background using MIDI Thru on the AWE64. So far, the only programs that can do this are for Windows. If anyone knows of some DOS program that can do this, then that can also get Privateer to work with the AWE64. Privateer works just fine with the LAPC-I, except the music sounds terrible since it doesn't use a General MIDI Instrument set and it only uses Channels 1-8 and 10, not all 16 MIDI channels.