PgrAm
Experienced Member
As I work on making new DOS games I occasionally come up with a tool that I think other people might find useful. I re-used the adlib/midi code from Chuck Jones: Space Cop of the Future to create Adlib-Host, a program that you can run on your 16-bit PC with an Adlib and MPU-401 UART card (so it works on a soundblaster 16) and turn it into a an external MIDI synthesizer. I wrote this so that I could use a modern MIDI sequencer while getting real OPL sound, with my 286 hooked up to my MIDI interface, you can even just plug a keyboard into your MPU-401 and play the OPL directly.
Supports OPL2 and OPL3 for extra voices and stereo.
Anyways, this is far from bug free and the midi implementation isn't 100% but here you go anyways:
View attachment adlhost.zip
EDIT: updated link (slight bugfix)
Supports OPL2 and OPL3 for extra voices and stereo.
Anyways, this is far from bug free and the midi implementation isn't 100% but here you go anyways:
View attachment adlhost.zip
EDIT: updated link (slight bugfix)
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