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So, yes, this API call is definitely trying to open an MCI device of type 'PINBALL.MID', for some unfathomable reason. Furthermore, the parameter 2002h is equivalent to MCI_OPEN_TYPE | MCI_WAIT. Where edi contains a pointer to the PINBALL.MID string, and esi is set to zero. Push offset mciParams dwParam2 mov mciParams.lpstrDeviceType, edi push 2002 h dwParam1 mov mciParams.lpstrElementName, esi push MCI_OPEN uMsg push esi mciId call ds : mciSendCommandA test eax, eax jnz short loc_1E27BBA

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After identifying and assigning the appropriate type to the MCI_OPEN_PARMSA struct (again easy enough due to IDA's built-in knowledge of Windows API types), the code surrounding the first such call looked something like this: Given that it's a standard PE-format executable, it was no trouble at all to find calls to the imported symbol mciSendCommandA. The only plausible reason was that Pinball was simply sending a malformed MCI request! With that, I dug into the Wine source code (specifically dlls/winmm/mci.c and include/mmsystem.h) and it became clear that the MCI 'open' call from Pinball was ending up on a codepath where it was supposed to have specified the media type ( lpstrDeviceType) rather than the filename ( lpstrElementName). Interestingly, they are not identical вЂ“ the latter contains relocation information (and hence can run on Windows 3.1 with Win32s), while the former does not! But anyway, this made no difference to the issue at handвЂ¦ One other thing I tried was swapping the pinball.exe file I had from the Windows XP CD with the version from the Windows NT 4.0 CD. Of course, that didn't work вЂ“ setting WINEDEBUG=+mci,mcimidi and running Pinball revealed that now it was successfully opening the MIDI sequencer device, but it didn't know what file to play!

Why on earth would it be trying to open media of ' type L'PINBALL.MID''? As opposed to, say 'type L'MPEGVIDEO'', as mentioned here.ДЇor the heck of it, I added the following lines to the section of ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system.ini: There were similar ones suggesting to adjust system.ini to include more media types, but that didn't make any sense.

Strangely enough, I couldn't find any other references to this exact line by searching on the web.

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Instead, I got this mystifying line printed in the terminal:Д 024:fixme:mci:MCI_LoadMciDriver Couldn't load driver for type L'PINBALL.MID'. In fact, when I launched the game and turned on music on the options menu, I still didn't hear the catchy tune.

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So now, I could enjoy the full Pinball experience with just Wine вЂ“ or so I thought! Sure, it sounds a bit different due to the different soundfont, but at least it plays. I was able to use the mcishell tool mentioned there to open and play PINBALL.MID with no issue. Despite all the references to ALSA in the linked article, the whole thing now works fine in PulseAudio mode, which is great.

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I soon figured out how to get fluidsynth running as a user systemd service, and at that stage it was pretty plug-and-play. In the end though, I decided that booting Windows 98, and reducing my background load, was too tall an order just to play Pinball with music, so I did take it upon myself to get MIDI working with Wine. If I wanted music, I could run it in my Windows 98 VM under qemu (although I had to reduce the background load on my system to make said VM run smoothly enough for that). That seemed fair enough, since I noticed the music was in MIDI format, and I hadn't done any work to get MIDI working under Wine. Once I figured out which files I needed to copy from the Windows XP CD, it was a simple enough matter of getting it up and running under Wine, except that the music didn't work (sound effects were fine).

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Lately I've been going through a sort of 'old software phase', in which I did everything from writing my first TSR in 2021 (!) to getting Windows 3.1 running natively on my Core i7 machine from 2014 (albeit in Standard Mode)! After all of that, I decided it was time to have a bit more fun, so I dug up 3D Pinball Space Cadet, that nice little game that came with versions of Windows NT from 4.0 to XP. The pinball arcade 2021.Update 11 October 2021: I've been asked to provide a straightforward list of bytes to change in the pinball.exe file, so here goes:ДЇor the Windows NT 4.0 version (which can run on Windows 3.1 via Win32s), change the following bytes: OffsetДЇor the Windows XP version, change the following bytes: Offset