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This tutorial will walk you through how to install Dosbox and MUNT on Debian 10 Buster. With this configuration, you can make the sound more enjoyable while playing DOS games. That is, if you don’t like the Soundblaster sound.
1.Dosbox:
Summary: Dosbox is a DOS emulator ported to various platforms such as Windows, Linux, BeOS and Mac OS X. It emulates many older systems and has good video and audio compatibility with many older DOS games. You can play many of the old classic DOS games that won’t run on your new computer. Dosbox is completely free and open source.
2.MUNT:
Summary: MUNT is a multi-platform synthesizer emulator that emulates pre-GM MIDI devices such as the Roland MT-32, CM-32L, CM-64, and LAPC-I. It has nothing to do with Roland Corp.
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Requirements: To build and install MUNT on a clean Debian 10 build, you need the following packages:
apt-get install build-essential cmake qt4-default qt4-qmake osspd1. Start Firefox and search for “munt download”.
2. Open the link on sourceforge.net and download MUNT.
3. Open “Files”, go to the download folder, right-click the archive and click “Extract Here” to extract the folder “munt-2.3.0.tar.gz”. A new folder named “munt-2.3.0” will be created.
4. Right-click the munt-2.3.0 folder, click Open in Terminal, and do the following:
su // Must be root for installation.
ls // This will list folders and files for easy copy paste.
cd mt32emu
5. Next, when you cd to the mt32emu folder, write as follows.
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release
make
make install
Wait for the process to finish before doing the following:
After waiting for a while:
Wait a few seconds again for the file installation to complete.
6. In the same terminal window, do the following:
cd .. //To go back to previous folder.
cd mt32emu_qt
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release
make
make install
sudo ldconfig // To recognize newly added librariesMove to the previous folder.
Cd to the folder “mt32emu_qt”.
Write or copy and paste “cmake-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: STRING = Release”
Wait a few seconds and then “create”.
Wait a few seconds and then “make install”
When you’re done, type sudo ldconfig and press Enter to recognize the newly added library.
6. Open a new terminal window and type “mt32emu-qt” to start MUNT.
7. That’s all I have built and installed MUNT, but to get the sound, I need the appropriate MT32 ROM available here.
https://ift.tt/2V13oOh
Note: A URL shortening service is used.
Download and save the archive.
Extract the archive.
Open MUNT, go to Options, click ROM Configuration and select the directory where the ROM is located. In my case, at / home / osboxes / Downloads / roms,[OK]Press.
8. You are now a fully functional MUNT emulator.
You can check if it works by downloading and playing some midi files.
Note: Some MIDI files do not work, so try to find one that works.
Check midis on this site.
https://bitmidi.com/
Dosbox MUNT configuration:
1. Installation:
su
dpkg --add-architecture i386 //Must add, because dosbox is 32bit
apt-get update
apt-get install dosbox2. Run Dosbox once to generate the configuration file.
3. Open Files, go to your Home folder and press Alt-h on your keyboard to see the hidden files.
4. Open the folder “.dosbox”
5. Open the config file in a text editor, look for the line “midiconfig =” and add “128: 0” as follows:
Optional: Scroll down to where it says “You can place the mount line here” and place the mount line as follows:
mount c: /home/osboxes/Downloads/
c:
It depends on your system, but this is just an example.
When you start Dosbox, it will be automatically mounted in this folder, which will be your game folder. From there, cd to the POLICE QUEST2 game folder, for example, to start the game.
You can change this and add any folders you like.
Check out this guide for information on how to use dosbox.
How to use Dosbox in Debian 8.1
Closing words:
To be able to use the mt32 emulator and dosbox, you first need a game that has mt32emu running and supports Roland Audio. You can get a large list of games supported by Roland on Wikipedia.
You need to run INSTALL.EXE, CONFIG.EXE, SYSTEM.COM, BAT.EXE, etc. from your DOS game to configure your game to use Roland sounds.
Below are links to demos that support Roland sounds. Try running MUNT on dosbox.
https://ift.tt/2IYvx5K
