I just received a ClumsyMIDI Pi Hat I've setup with a Raspberry Pi 3 and the MT32-Pi software, to use with my Atari 520ST. Giving Ultima IV a listen.

$49 from Tindie. Good so far!

#AtariST #Atari #MIDI #RPi #MT32-Pi #MT32 #ClumsyMIDI #Roland #synthesizer #RolandMT32 #chiptune #gaming #retrogaming #retrogames #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #video #RaspberryPi #ByteCellar

Playing #MonkeyIsland 2 and drinking #beer. The #MT32 chugging along playing the absolutely awesome soundtrack. #retrogaming for the win - and it's even better on real hardware. :D

Earlier tonight, I was surprised to learn that the 1990 EGA version of the original "Secret of Monkey Island" needs a separate Roland-Upgrade (DISK09.LEC) to support MT-32 music. A feature, that came as standard with the VGA version. Oh, well... this should only have been a quick Google search, but unfortunately, the LucasArts FTP server closed down years ago.

Luckily, after a few hours of research, I found out the Way-Back-Machine holds a complete index of all these updates and patches from 1999 and I eventually also discovered a complete FTP site grab from 2013! I'm so glad someone made the effort to preserve these files!

Here it is, just in case anyone else wants it: https://archive.org/details/ftp.lucasarts.com-20130427