Help with MIDI Setup on an HP Window 98 machine
Howdy!
I've been trying to set up a Windows 98 Hewlett-Packard Pavilion to play DOS games, but I've seemed to run into a wall when it comes to MIDI.
The HP has the (infamous) CS4235 Soundcard, which I've hooked a gameport-to-MIDI adapter to, which I have hooked up to a female-to-female MIDI adapter, which finally leads to a MIDI-to-USB adapter connected to my laptop, which has munt's MT-32 emulator and MIDIView to track any MIDI commands sent in.
I've been using Day of the Tentacle to test, with the game set to output via Gen. MIDI (though I have tested Roland as well) via port 330 (as per the soundcard's manual). Normally, it seems no commands are received/sent, as the MIDI-to-USB cable's MIDI-in light does not light up. However, when I first plug the MIDI-to-USB cable into the MIDI female-to-female converter while the MIDI out from the HP is plugged in, the cable briefly lights up and MIDIView detects a command (Usually an out meta event of channel 0, hex ff), though this seems to happen when DOTT is set to output via the 332 as well.
Frankly, I'm at a loss as to where in the chain of converters the issue may be occurring, so any help would be greatly appreciated!