callen92: You guys should really consider bundling Timidity alongside DosBox for your Linux games. The quality of Timidity's MIDI playback compared to DosBox's renderer is like night and day.
shmerl: No need to bundle it. Timidity is available in all distros. If you want to switch, just modify the conf file shipped with the game. I however prefer fluidsynth (I don't have Timidity installed). It's better than Timidity if you choose good sound fonts.
See here some examples:
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/16917-How-to-run-GOG-DosBox-games-on-Linux?p=513929&viewfull=1#post513929 timidity,fluidsynth, I'll take anything over the default midi player lol.
What I ended up doing is installing timidity, the fluid sound fonts, configuring timidity for the fluid fonts, adding the 129:0 channel to the dosbox config, and then adding the following lines at the beginning and end of the start.sh script at the root of the game folder:
timidity -iA (to start the server with my UID)
killall timidity (to kill the server instance as soon as I exit the game)
Sure, I could come up with something for myself, but if you were to curate a stable version of a high-end midi player like you do with dosbox and incorporate it into the game bundle, it would really make a difference in quality for folks who aren't as Linux saavy and might be taken aback by the loss of quality compared to the Windows version.