Re: FM synth - native/direct vs. through MIDI?
Posted on 2023-09-15, 12:47
In the DOS era there was not much MIDI-capable hardware, and it definitely was not meant to interface FM synths. The dos games would play game-specific music formats via game- or game engine-specific driver (AIL, MIDPACK, etc). The driver would normally access OPL hardware directly, though later …