MS-DOS and Windows XP Gaming on a Thinkpad X61 [SoundBlaster Emulation with MIDI in DOS]
0A look at a Thinkpad X61 ultra-portable notebook from 2007, and how it performs with a few Windows XP-era and MS-DOS classics.
Tips on installing the troublesome Windows XP audio driver
A look at VSBHDASF, a fork of the Soundblaster emulator with MIDI support
Rambling about DOS games and soundfont files
and fiddling around with MegaMID, a DOS MIDI player with great visualizations
[02:10] Installing the Windows XP audio drivers
[03:20] How capable is this of playing anything in Windows XP? A look at Doom 3, Starcraft, Warcraft 3
[06:00] SoundBlaster Emulation with MIDI in DOS using VSBHDASF
[07:40] Rambling about soundfonts
[08:30] Make a MIDI jukebox using MegaMID for MS-DOS
Edit: Rather than zip up my weird setup, these are the specific versions the driver and QPIEMU.DLL I had to use linked here.
RESOURCES:
Thinkpad X61 Drivers
https://thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad-Drivers/download.lenovo.com/lenovo/content/ddfm/X61.html
Thinkpad Fan Forum
https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewforum.php?f=30
VSBHDASF
https://github.com/Cacodemon345/VSBHDASF
VSBHDA (Documentation for VSBHDA/SF is here)
https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA
JEMM v5.84
https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/Jemm/releases/download/v5.84/JemmB_v584.zip
SBEMU (for QPIEMU.DLL)
https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU/releases/download/Release_1.0.0-beta.5/SBEMU.zip
NOTE: On my particular system, I seem to require the specific QPIEMU.DLL from the below release of SBEMU. For whatever reason, other versions cause JEMMEX to crash. There are more up-to-date versions of most of these projects available.
Soundfonts:
http://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/drivers/Creative/Soundblaster16_AWE/soundfonts/AWE64/
https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/3567
https://www.arachnosoft.com/main/download.php?id=soundfont-sf2
https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/1437
Don't forget to add:
SET BLASTER=A220 I2 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET SOUNDFONT=[YOUR FILE]