Well you can actually buy the gameport midi cable (mpu-401) on ebay for 9 bucks. The only software you can really use it with is midi out for games or some windows music stuff. There is All Sound Tracker but if you want to use it with OPL3 and Samples and MIDI you will need a SB32. Which were not built into laptops. You can use them independently though on YMF715s. So that'd probably be your best bet until someone writes a better implementation.
17 Jan 15, 2015 1:26 pm
Re: Adlib tracker ii midi mode (10 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
18 Nov 14, 2014 4:33 pm
Re: Adlib tracker ii midi mode (10 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
Without the game port?! You can't use MIDI in DOS unless you have the game port MPU-401 MIDI cable. The AT2 that has MIDI is in an alpha stage as it is.
19 Nov 14, 2014 4:27 pm
Re: SID-Wizard: top/bottom of screen cut off (14 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
could be the video cap device. have you tried it on different tv's? All the different decoders work different. Maybe there's a setting inside windows to expand the video input. Other than that I wouldn't know off hand.
20 Nov 7, 2014 4:40 pm
Re: Any tips for a first-time Toshiba Libretto owner? (29 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
The libretto bios is old. I had to partition an SD card to 2Gb sizes for it to recognize the drives. It works 10x faster than the HDD that came with though, and your battery lasts maybe 20% longer. The drivers are weird too, I had lots of keyboard errors and such when I used DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11, though it ran super fast. I switched to Win 98 SE and the restart in MS-DOS mode and run it and that seems to be the most efficient speed/errorless way to go, plus having file management and mass storage through the PCMCIA slot is handy.
21 Nov 7, 2014 4:31 pm
Re: SID-Wizard: top/bottom of screen cut off (14 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
I just converted my NTSC C64 to PAL. Pretty easy, you just need the VIC-II chip and the crystal oscillator and then solder bridge the clock multiplier jumper pads. You can find PAL VIC-II on european ebay for like 15 bucks and the PAL crystals are on mouser for less than 10. The song speeds are slower of course, but it never hiccups and you get full screen full compatibility. Plus a much larger game library. 
22 Oct 9, 2014 1:23 am
Re: List of OPL3 laptops. (18 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
Gateway Solo 2500. Any NeoMagix laptop uses OPL3.
23 Oct 9, 2014 12:58 am
Re: SID-Wizard: top/bottom of screen cut off (14 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Awol wrote:
Noplanet wrote:http://blackb3ltjones.blogspot.com/2012 … -mods.html
VGA upscale yo. 15 bucks.
Interesting. Anyone tried this with SID-Wizard?
Oh I didn't try it, but I talked to the video creator, It's not a fix. He was actually using a PAL C64.
There's no fix for this unfortunately other than converting your C64 to PAL.
Not a bad idea considering how much more software is native and will work without issue.
There are other trackers like cyber tracker that use a nice window interface for instrument editing.
I actually like cybertrackers envelope interface. It's a lot easier than hex editing. If only there were a 2SID version.
24 Sep 19, 2014 7:21 pm
Re: CheeseCutter SID music editor video tutorial (4 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Cool, looks good!
25 Sep 19, 2014 7:16 pm
Re: SID-Wizard: top/bottom of screen cut off (14 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
http://blackb3ltjones.blogspot.com/2012 … -mods.html
VGA upscale yo. 15 bucks.
26 Aug 26, 2014 2:21 am
Re: HVSC email? (3 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
ah weird, it wasn't working earlier when i tried different symbols and things. figured it out though. Awesome! 
27 Aug 23, 2014 6:30 am
Topic: HVSC email? (3 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
trying to submit SID files but the e-mail is listed as "hvsc (sid) c64.org"
and g-mail won't send to that. anyone else have this trouble?
28 Jul 29, 2014 10:05 pm
Re: Understanding legacy FM chips and audio cards (12 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
I had Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro 2 starting out. Great card! They did integrate opl3 circuits into later chips and some ESS ones are mostly compatible, but don't have proper DOS support.
29 Jul 29, 2014 9:53 pm
Re: Micromys V4 adapter not working properly (2 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
I never got mine to even work with GEOS. you mean plug it into a computer and then switch it to the commodore and it works? Oh mine's V3 btw. V4 must work correctly or something. ho hum.
30 Jul 21, 2014 11:39 pm
Re: DualSID Optimizing (1 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
For future reference of anyone else having this issue with dualSID boards. I learned that the transistor markings on the board were backwards. It's awesome now.
31 Jul 2, 2014 6:25 am
Topic: DualSID Optimizing (1 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
So I've had my DualSID for a while and until now I've been mixing the audio levels with other devices to get them to match,
but now I'm trying to find a better way. I'm using a wire off Pin 3 of the AV jack along with the Audio out from the dualSID board and the GND from the DualSID as well all connected to a 1/4" TRS jack. I was doing the same thing before with RCA, but decided I like TRS jacks more.
It's not the chips as I have switched them back and forth, SID1 slot is always super loud and SID2 is always quiet.
Does anyone know of a better Audio line/GND line configuration to make them more equally amplified?
32 Jun 27, 2014 12:48 am
Re: So you wanna rock out with MS-DOS/SB16? (159 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
Matej wrote:
Noplanet wrote:anyone tried All Sound Tracker?
Apparently it supports OPL3 and MIDI IN/OUT and samples via AWE 32/64 daughterboards.What that sounds AWEsome, I have 4x AWE... Gonna try this.
Please record and share. The OPL3 demo was decent, but I am totally curious what the EMU8000 can do with LFO's and Filters. There was a SID demo too. Looks badass. Wish there were laptops with AWE32's.