--Ultima VII Part 2: The Serpent Isle/Silver Seed General MIDI music support-- V1.0 (Music AND sound effects) THIS PROGRAM IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN (meaning you can't sell it) Serpent Isle is a commercial program -- if you don't own it.. Run -- don't walk and buy the approx $15 EA Classics CD-ROM of the complete Ultima 7. o What Thou needest: A general MIDI (preferably GS compatable) synthesizer running on a MPU-401 compatable interface. o What it does: Changes all the music from the intro and menu and game music into General MIDI and GS compatable sequences. It also changes a few sound effects from the game if you have a GS synth. o What it does not do: It does everything, this time, unlike the Ultima 7 version. The sound effects were edited along with the music. Note: You will need a true GS sound card to correctly hear all of the sound effects! o How wilt thy set it up: After unzipping the contents of the .ZIP file into a directory type: setupgm C:\serpent (Where c:\serpent is the directory where Serpent Isle resides) You must run the Serpent Isle install program and MAKE SURE that your music sound card is set to Roland MT-32/LAPC-1. Then run Serpent Isle, and enjoy, and then visit the Ultima Dragons home page http://www.udic.org (or the Ultima info page: http://www.udic.org/ultima)! --- Notes --- Again, it's totally unbelievable what people will do darned near anything when a new Ultima hasn't come out in a while . After converting music files from Ultima 6, 7.5, and the underworlds I thought it would be a good challenge that others could enjoy to convert the native Ultima 7 music and sound effects into General MIDI, so people could hear it correctly on the new wavetable music cards. I once had a Roland LAPC-1 and enjoyed the quality of the music & sound effects in The Black Gate and I thought others would like better music than FM synthesis. I've been an Ultima fan since Ultima I, and even liked Pagan (patched of course). After this I went on right to Serpent Isle, unlike Ultima 7, I was able to change the sound effects as well (yippee!) because Ultima 7 uses a modified version of John Miles' AIL (Audio Interface Library). These files have been edited from scratch, I used no prior MIDI file collection in editing the music. Most of the sound effects will only play correctly on a GS synthesizer (it will sound like ocean waves or gunshots or other close but not quite it sounds on non-GS synthesizers) What I have in audio equipment is: Roland SCC-1 and a Soundblaster AWE-32, I know that people with SBAWE32s probably wont be able to run SI in GM mode because of the huge TSR it needs to emulate MIDI. (However, its a great excuse to get the Roland SCD-15 Daughterboard--make sure its a SCD15!) All this was created on a Pentium 133 and Windows '95. I didn't do all of this manually, thank goodness, as I wrote some better functioning programs to do most of the conversion work. I've tested it pretty well (I haven't ran through the entire game with it, but have jumped from place to place on it using saved games & cheats) It all seems to work. It was tested on a setup with Silver seed installed, if you don't have the Silver Seed add-in installed I can't make any guess if it may work. You can use the UNDOGM program to uninstall the General MIDI music files from Serpent Isle if you can't handle it... Don't forget to check out the Ultima Dragons at the web page: http://www.udic.org Or THE definative Ultima web page at: http://www.udic.org/ultima Or THE Ultima newsgroup: alt.games.ultima.dragons See what Origin is doing at: http://www.ea.com/origin.html Disclaimer: I do not work for Origin so whatever you do, do not bug their customer support if you are using these files on Serpent Isle -- bug me or post to the alt.games.ultima.dragons newsgroup. --- --- Enjoy, To reach me on questions/comments regarding these files: Mike 'Newt' Cornelius -=(UDIC)=- Newton Dragon 2401 S. Atlantic Ave. New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169 The Outdoor Sportsman BBS (407)635-9590 28.8k, n81 Internet E-mail : Mike.cornelius@outdoor.com America On-Line : MikeNewt@aol.com Prodigy : KBND17B@Prodigy.com Microsoft Network: Mike_Cornelius@Msn.Com