Specifications

converter 1.5
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Roland UART-mode MPU-401 and compatible
These interface cards (generally) do not use a DOS environment variable to specify their base address
and IRQ; therefore, the card’s base address and IRQ are typed into the file
hardware.cfg
that
converter uses for initialization (see the discussion on configuring this file earlier in this manual). Many of
these interface cards (specifically the Roland cards, and many compatibles such as ones from Music
Quest) used jumpers on the card to specify the base address and IRQ to be used. To determine the
settings for your particular interface, either look at the interface card you have installed (and/or refer to
the manual or documentation that came with the card), or if the card has been successfully installed
under Windows9x refer to the card’s settings under Windows as follows:
Open the Windows9x control panel, double-click on ‘system’, choose the ‘device manager’ tab,
expand the ‘sound, video and game controllers’ droplist, and double-click the appropriate driver for
your MPU-401 (in our case, ‘MPU-401 Compatible’ for our Roland MPU-IPC-T). This should give you a
window with several tabbed entries – click on ‘resources’. Under the ‘resource settings’ listbox, write
the following numbers down on paper to be used in converter’s
hardware.cfg
file:
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the first entry (input/output range – this is the base port address of the MPU card)
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the second entry (Interrupt Request – this is the IRQ your card uses)
Open Notepad (under Windows, or Edit under DOS) and place these numbers in their respective
locations in the
hardware.cfg
file.
Soundcard manufacturer websites/webpages for manuals and drivers
[ note: these links may be out of date. Check the ‘driver support’ page for converter on our website. ]
Roland MPU-401, MPU-IPC-T, SCC-1, LAPC-1, etc.
Documentation available as HTML or PDF – scroll down until you find the section for MPU cards.
http://www.rolandus.com/SUPPORT/DOCS/SUPNOTES.HTM
Gravis Ultrasound Classic and Plug & Play series
Documentation, software installation, and utilities are available on this page. The soundcard sections
are located towards the bottom of the list – try the following files:
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GUS411.ZIP (for Ultrasound Classic/Max series)
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P20DISK2.ZIP (for Ultrasound Plug&Play – may also require P20DISK1.ZIP but possibly not)
http://www.gravis.com/support/sup_1059.html
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Series – DOS/Legacy drivers
This particular Creative Labs website has various DOS-oriented utilities and installation disks available
for download. Note that these downloads are not designed for non-Creative Labs hardware (ie. clones).
Specific downloads to try are:
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“Basic DOS-level utilities for use in Windows95 MS-DOS mode or a Windows 95 Command
Prompt only boot” (towards the top of the list – DOS software such as Diagnose.exe which can be
used to configure your soundcard)
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“Sound Blaster 16/SB32/AWE32 Basic Disk for DOS/Windows 3.1 Installation”
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“Plug and Play Configuration Manager” (2 disks, towards the bottom of the list, for the Plug and
Play versions of the SoundBlaster cards such as AWE-64, etc)