i thought adplug could be configured to use your own soundblaster and not use their emulation.

DOSBox records all IO events so there shouldn't be any missing instruments.

hmmm I dont think WinXP can use SB PRO2

Qbix wrote:

i thought adplug could be configured to use your own soundblaster and not use their emulation.

This is true. It has an option for native OPL passthrough
For Windows XP you'll need to install a port talking driver or service for this. Midi-OX's site may have some iirc.

Well yes yes - it was my mistake, the games cheated me 😀 (this is hard to explaing right here but it was a misdirection)

In the meantime I wrote my mini DRO player in C and Pascal. If you guys have some time pls check my code wheter its right or not

Just one more question: how did you do the Adlib emulation? Did you somehow debug the adlib's card "software" or...?

The OPL2 and 3 (the chips used in Adlib and various SB cards) emulation was borrowed from the MAME project. It was written by Tatsuyuki Satô and improved by Jarek Burczynski, by reverse engineering the chips.

Don't forget that sometimes (depending on the song) the OPL capture doesn't begin early enough and misses some notes from the start of the song. I posted a patch a while ago that fixes this problem, but I don't think it ever got incorporated into the code. You'll probably want to use this patch if you want to make sure you capture everything (and yes I can confirm that it does capture everything, even invalid codes that some games send to the OPL chip.)