Fellow Tinkerers, I have bought one of those DOOM-playing "bump bars". And not content to simply playing DOOM, I want to get MIDI out to work.
Since the bump bar was never designed for MIDI out, I have a MIDICloud RS-232 from Serdashop so that I can attempt to use one of the serial ports for MIDI out.
And I've already run into the first problem: At least with MS-DOS 6.22, I can't get EMM386 or QEMM to work properly - one of these extended memory managers is required to run SoftMPU, which itself (or a similar program) is required to redirect MIDI output on port 330 to a serial port.
No matter which settings I tried, if I let EMM386/QEMM load, then as soon as autoexec.bat starts to run, I get the error Invalid Command Interpreter. It would seem as if these products are potentially stomping on memory used by something else...
Has anyone attempted what I am now attempting? And does anyone have any suggestions to try in order to get EMM386 or QEMM to load properly?
Note: I am not opposed to trying FreeDOS. However, I wasn't able to get a FreeDOS installer written onto media that the iPAD would then boot... I only used MS-DOS 6.22 for my first attempt because I already had it installed on a CF card and the IPAD was OK with booting from it using a CF to USB adapter.
Since the bump bar was never designed for MIDI out, I have a MIDICloud RS-232 from Serdashop so that I can attempt to use one of the serial ports for MIDI out.
And I've already run into the first problem: At least with MS-DOS 6.22, I can't get EMM386 or QEMM to work properly - one of these extended memory managers is required to run SoftMPU, which itself (or a similar program) is required to redirect MIDI output on port 330 to a serial port.
No matter which settings I tried, if I let EMM386/QEMM load, then as soon as autoexec.bat starts to run, I get the error Invalid Command Interpreter. It would seem as if these products are potentially stomping on memory used by something else...
Has anyone attempted what I am now attempting? And does anyone have any suggestions to try in order to get EMM386 or QEMM to load properly?
Note: I am not opposed to trying FreeDOS. However, I wasn't able to get a FreeDOS installer written onto media that the iPAD would then boot... I only used MS-DOS 6.22 for my first attempt because I already had it installed on a CF card and the IPAD was OK with booting from it using a CF to USB adapter.
