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Previous DosBox versions had better game sound and music

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First post, by MadMonk

Posted on 2010-04-21, 18:56

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Has anyone noticed the sound difference between v. 70 and v. 73?

Sounds in 0. 73
This change appears only in few games, such as in Bio Menace the shooting- and key pick-up sounds are quite different.

Game music in 0. 73
The quality change is small but noticeable. Some games, especially ROTT, Major Stryker, Duke Nukem II, Monster Bash and other games which use AdLib music have expectional music quality compared to v. 70's.

IMO v. 70 supports the best music- and sound quality. So, I want to have the v. 70's sound and music quality to v. 73. The reason why I'm using v. 73 is cause I'm recording some of my playthrougs (v. 70's video capture doesn't work)

All in all, how can I get the v. 70's good sound and music quality to v. 73? Should I edit the conf.? And could I get a copy of unedited v. 70's conf. -file somewhere?

Reply 1 of 13, by wd

Posted on 2010-04-21, 19:00

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What are your rate= settings in the config files?

Reply 2 of 13, by MadMonk

Posted on 2010-04-21, 19:01

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rate=22050 (v. 73)
I've lost my v. 70's conf. during the update.

Reply 3 of 13, by DosFreak

Posted on 2010-04-21, 19:04

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Install DOSBox v0.70
Config -wc dosbox.conf

I'm not sure I understand your post. You can try playing with "oplmode" "oplemu" and rate options in dosbox.conf

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Reply 4 of 13, by MadMonk

Posted on 2010-04-21, 19:19

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I'm not sure I understand your post. You can try playing with "oplmode" "oplemu" and rate options in dosbox.conf

Seems like it works. Could you still tell me v. 70's oplrate? I can't check that out cause v. 70's conf. switched automatically to v. 73's

Reply 5 of 13, by robertmo

Posted on 2010-04-21, 20:38

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rates were the same in 0.70

install both dosbox's. you can even install some more versions. every dosbox has his own dosbox-ver.conf (you see in status window where its location is)

Reply 6 of 13, by wd

Posted on 2010-04-21, 21:46

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If you want good adlib support use 0.73 and check the comment at oplrate.

Reply 7 of 13, by MadMonk

Posted on 2010-04-22, 14:27

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DOSBox 0.73 has been released! […]
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DOSBox 0.73 has been released!

Most noticeable changes:

•Support for more graphics modes and cards.
•Improved Vista support.
•New OPL emulation cores.
•Sound fixes and improvements for Mac OS X.
•Lots of compatibility fixes.
•Lots of cdrom detection improvements.
•Lots of memory (EMS/XMS) improvements.
•Various fixes and enhancements for the recompiling core.
•Support for evdev.
•Lots of DOS fixes.
•Slightly faster!
•More stable.

•New OPL emulation cores.

I think, that changed the music quality.

Reply 8 of 13, by Qbix

Posted on 2010-04-22, 14:28

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wd wrote:
If you want good adlib support use 0.73 and check the comment at oplrate.

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Reply 9 of 13, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2010-04-22, 14:29

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... towards the real thing. You are just used to the old wrong one.

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Reply 10 of 13, by Hater Depot

Posted on 2010-04-22, 14:44

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If you haven't played the games on a real DOS system with an Adlib then you don't really know wheher 0.70 or 0.73 is more accurate.

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Reply 11 of 13, by Teppic

Posted on 2010-04-22, 21:21

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While on a topic of oplrate, when I use 49716 on both the mixer and oplrate I get really muffled music. If I change the mixer to 48000 it sounds fine.

Is this a bug, or can't my Sound Blaster Audigy 2 play back this correctly?

Reply 12 of 13, by wd

Posted on 2010-04-22, 21:35

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Right, means resampling of your soundcard to this rate is borked.
Use 48000 or 44100 (assuming those sound better) for all rates then.

Reply 13 of 13, by Teppic

Posted on 2010-04-22, 22:03

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Thanks for clearing that up.

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