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I have Master of Magic running at high speed and with working PCM sound under dosemu. But I can't seem to get MIDI working. The weird thing about dosemu is that it has no internal MIDI support, so it writes MIDI data to a file (~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi). If I set MoM to use SoundBlaster Pro (later), the MIDI file is created but it's empty. If I set MoM to use General MIDI, the file contains Roland SysEx data (according to file). If I understand correctly, when MoM tries to use the SB to play MIDI, it would normally do so via wave table mapping provided by a driver like AWEUTIL.COM. But dosemu won't load the AWEUTIL driver, and it has no MIDI emulation of its own, so nothing is written to the dosemu-midi file. So what I need is a way to play the SysEx file. If that even makes sense... I'm not completely sure what SysEx is. Timidity says it's not a MIDI file, midid dumps a bunch of stuff to stdout and exits without playing any sound, and amidi just pauses for a few seconds and exits. I think the problem might be with my system's ability to play MIDI, but I'm not sure. (Timidity plays regular MIDI files via wavetable synthesis, so the fact that it works on other files doesn't mean much.) I've tried running it in dosbox, and it works, but it's extremely slow and the sound quality is terrible. I've tried setting cycles to auto (3000), 10000, 25000, 50000, and max, and at all settings I still get crackles and lag. Also, dosbox takes control of the X mouse pointer and doesn't let it move out of its own window. For that reason alone, I'm determined to stick with dosemu... EDIT: I converted the raw SysEx dump to MIDI using the syx2midi DOS app found here, and it does contain the expected music. Now I just need a way to convert or play it in realtime...
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Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and this is the first time I've seen this problem. Basically, it's Firefox's (ver 3.5.5) problem because there are certain websites (realmadridtalk.com, justintv.com, ebay.ph) I cannot access unless I use a proxy. My FF preferences are technically at a default, allowing java scripts and the "No proxy" setting is ticked for the network connection. I've also installed Opera and was able to access a channel on JustinTV but when I tried again, it's back to the same problem. It always shows this: http://img101.photolava.com/2009/11/29/screenshot-oops-this-link-appears-to-be-broken-www-oleole-com-blogs-realmad-2ok5qu8j.pngI installed NoScript and AdBlock Plus yesterday when this happened, thinking that it's because of the two add ons, I removed them but the same thing happened. My problem (on not being able to access certain sites) is not limited to me only. I tried asking friends (using Firefox) through chat to access the 3 sites I've mentioned and they gave the same results. My other friend who tried it with IE however, made realmadridtalk.com worked. If anyone can enlighten me on this, I would really appreciate it. I know basic troubleshooting and I've Googled around to no avail. Someone from ubuntuforums.org suggested that it might be because of my ISP but my other two friends whom I asked to access the same sites I mentioned, they got the same results (one is using broadband and one is DSL, from two diff services).
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The SB emulation in dosemu was designed to work with OSS, so it attempts to open /dev/dsp directly. I've tried running it with -s, wrapping it with padsp, and both at the same time, but it still cannot access the sound card. kevin@aphrodite:~/.dosemu$ padsp xdosemu -D +S
kevin@aphrodite:~/.dosemu$ cat boot.log | grep SB
SB: SB Initialisation
SB: Initialisation - Base 0x220, IRQ 5, DMA 1, HDMA 5
SB: FM Initialisation
SB:[Linux] FM Driver Initialisation Called
SB: Resetting SB
SB: Disabling Speaker
SB: Speaker already disabled
SB:[Linux] SB Driver Initialisation Called
SB: /dev/dsp open failed, Device or resource busy
SB:[Linux] No sounddevice for SoundBlaster emulation found.
SB: Resetting FM
SB:[Linux] FM Driver Reset Called
kevin@aphrodite:~/.dosemu$ Any suggestions? I've also tried dosbox, but the sound is choppy and it takes over the mouse until it's closed. ETA: lsof /dev/dsp reports nothing. ETA2: After trying many more things that didn't work, I met with partial success by double-wrapping dosemu with padsp and aoss, like so: LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD libaoss.so libpulsedsp.so" dosemu -D +S PCM output is working, but there's still no MIDI or mixer. "OLD MAN! YOU SEEK THE SPELL OF MASTERY!" :D :D :D
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