AdPlug, An input plugin for various AdLib sound formats. Emulates the OPL chip Options

[kode54]

Now available for foobar2000 0.9. [download]

Currently, the only OPL emulation core available is the MAME OPL core, since this is the only one which is multi-instance safe. Ken Silverman's emulator will require some work for that.

Note that MID, MSC and S3M files need to be renamed to MIDA/MSCA/S3MA to work with this component, to prevent extension collisions.

Also, if you have foo_midi installed, you will need to update it to the latest version (dated October 7, 2008, or later) so it won't take over CMF files.

[kode54]

The same trick goes for .mid(a), .s3m(a), and .msc(a). Although, some day, I'll probably incorporate a passable (possibly tandem) AdLib emulation based MIDI driver into foo_midi, just for kicks. It will also support multiple loadable instrument banks, such as the widely used Fat Man set, featured in such games as Hocus Pocus, and included in the MSOPL driver. Or the Duke Nukem 3D patch kit. Or the Doom engine games, which had layered 2 operator instruments, and also had slight variations between different game franchises. I could probably adapt the MIDI driver from AdPlug to work with all of those, and also work under my own MIDI player loop.

My MIDI component utilizes MIDI parsers which turn various formats into basic multi-track MIDI sequence data in an internal format, with functions to turn that data either into a timestamped event stream, or a Standard MIDI File. All of the current player drivers, except for the disabled DXi player, use the event stream data. I just need a MIDI driver which is capable of accepting raw MIDI events, and rendering sample data between sets of events to simulate time passing. The only special case is the VSTi driver, which I moved out to its own process because some VST plug-ins are so crashtastic.

[Nahkranoth]

The same trick goes for .mid(a), .s3m(a), and .msc(a). Although, some day, I'll probably incorporate a passable (possibly tandem) AdLib emulation based MIDI driver into foo_midi, just for kicks. It will also support multiple loadable instrument banks, such as the widely used Fat Man set, featured in such games as Hocus Pocus, and included in the MSOPL driver.

So one can listen to adlib version of Ultima Underworld's *.xmi and they will sound exactly like in the game?


I knew that this day will come!