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# 1.0 install dosbox

sudo apt-get install dosbox

# 2.0 set up midi audio modules, these are not setup by default in Ubuntu 6.06

sudo modprobe snd-seq-device
sudo modprobe snd-seq-midi
sudo modprobe snd-seq-oss
sudo modprobe snd-seq-midi-event

# 2.2 set environmental variable for audio driver

nano -w ~/.bashrc

# set last line to: export ALSA_OUTPUT_PORTS=“128:0” export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

# 2.3 create dosbox.conf file. You may need to taylor this file for each game.

dosbox

dosbox > config -writeconf dosbox.conf # to use a configuration file, start dosbox with: # > dosbox -conf /path/to/desired/conf/dosbox.conf

# 2.4 modify the config file

nano -w ./dosbox.conf

mpu401=true intelligent=true device=alsa config=128:0

# Do not use timidity for 128:0 if you want to use mt32emu_alsadrv #> timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os1l -s 44100

# 3.0 set up mt32emu and mt32emu_alsadrv # 3.1 download mt32emu. # a) Search sourceforge for a project called 'munt' # b) download release 0.1.3, the file should be called mt32emu-0.1.3.tar.gz # c) extract to /usr/local/src

sudo tar -xvzf mt32emu-0.1.3.tar.gz -C /usr/local/src

# 3.2 compile and install mt32emu

cd /usr/local/src/mt32emu-0.1.3
sudo ./configure

# running 'sudo make' gave a compile error with gcc-4.0, the default for Ubuntu 6.06 # i386.cpp:142: error: unknown register name ‘xmm3’ in ‘asm’ # i386.cpp:142: error: unknown register name ‘xmm2’ in ‘asm’ # i386.cpp:142: error: unknown register name ‘xmm1’ in ‘asm’ # I had to use gcc-3.3

sudo apt-get install gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3-base

# use and text editor to modify Makefile

sudo nano -w Makefile

# replace all instances of 'gcc' with 'gcc-3.3' # replace all instances of 'g++' with 'g++-3.3'

sudo make
sudo make install

# you should now have a static library called lib32mtemu.a in /usr/local/lib # to make use of this library in dosbox, you need the alsa driver

# 3.3 download mt32emu_alsadrv # here I used the CVS version of mt32emu_alsadrv. I'm not very familiar with # CVS, I just typed in the following instruction I got from VOGONS:

cd .. # to get back into /usr/local/src
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@munt.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/munt login

# press enter when it asks for a password

sudo cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@munt.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/munt co -P mt32emu_alsadrv

# I like to keep track of when I check out files from CVS

sudo mv mt32emu_alsadrv ./mt32emu_alsadrv-CVS-061221

# 3.4 compile and install mt32emu_alsadrv

cd mt32emu_alsadrv-CVS-061221

# again, we have to use gcc-3.3, use any text editor

sudo nano -w Makefile

# replace all instances of 'gcc' with 'gcc-3.3' # replace all instances of 'g++' with 'g++-3.3' # now make and make install

sudo make
suso make install

# 3.5 copy MT32_CONTROL.ROM and MT32_PCM.ROM to /usr/share/mt32-rom-data

sudo mkdir /usr/share/mt32-rom-data
sudo cp /location/of/romfiles/*.ROM /usr/share/mt32-rom-data/

# make sure the spelling and case of rom files is correct

# 4 run mt32d to activate service in a new console # running this as root may provide better performance

mt32d

# 5 check ports with pmidi

pmidi -l

128:0 MT-32 Standard 128:1 MT-32 GM Emulation

# 6 enjoy great mt-32 music with dosbox # make sure game configuration has music set to mt-32

dosbox -conf /path/to/dosbox/configuration/file/dosbox.conf

dosbox ZDisapproving> mount c /path/to/dos/game dosbox ZDisapproving> C: dosbox CDisapproving> game.exe

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