 --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 <G>.

  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.
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   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
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