I got a "copy file error" on install windows-opl3, and checked the code in Github, it seems detecting WDM audio drivers but I have a VXD, I'll install a WDM and try again.

If anyone is interested, I just released a VST based on these drivers. https://github.com/datajake1999/OPL3GM_VSTi/releases

@datajake1999 Wow, that looks cool. I can hardly wait to get the time to try that out! 😀

In Windows 10 x64 I'm getting an error in Coolsoft MIDIMapper of "Can't open target device. Do you want to select a device now?" when I try to play a MIDI file. I've reinstalled both the x86 and x64 versions of Visual C++ 2015 and installed the x64 driver using admin and still get the same error. Any ideas?

AirIntake wrote on 2022-02-07, 02:00:

In Windows 10 x64 I'm getting an error in Coolsoft MIDIMapper of "Can't open target device. Do you want to select a device now?" when I try to play a MIDI file. I've reinstalled both the x86 and x64 versions of Visual C++ 2015 and installed the x64 driver using admin and still get the same error. Any ideas?

I just tried the x86 2K version of the driver and it worked.

Edit: I installed the x64 version again and now it works too, strange.

Edit 2: x64 version stopped working again after a reboot. Used the non-2K x86 version, it worked and survived a reboot.

ik777 wrote on 2013-09-02, 13:10:

Let me know which CMI are you using. […]
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Let me know which CMI are you using.

LP chasis type? Trapezoid one with least parts? or Full sized one with digital output?

They looks much better than ebay. Audiotrak refused to answer about FM support. 😠
http://www.abko.co.kr/product/view.php?pid=17006&cid=1168
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http://audiotrack.co.kr/kr/index.php?mid=pci& … cument_srl=3727
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Thank you so much

DragonSlayer wrote on 2019-01-14, 03:19:

@schlang: I'm not anti-Windows. I'm anti privacy invasion and I'm also anti corporate-assisted government spying. Both of whi […]
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@schlang: I'm not anti-Windows. I'm anti privacy invasion and I'm also anti corporate-assisted government spying. Both of which, Microsoft have been discovered to have been guilty of doing and are currently, at this very moment, guilty of doing. There is a huge difference.

Also as Digger kindly pointed out, Linux is extremely tweakable and puts you in control of your computer instead of the reverse scenario.

It may surprise you to know that I'm a relative newcomer to Linux. I did not come to Linux because I thought it was the best operating system to ever hit the scene (which it may well be). I came to Linux firstly because I was forced, kicking and screaming, from the Windows operating system which I've used and loved/hated almost since the day of its inception.

I am being forced to leave Windows, not for technical reasons, but because the Microsoft corporation has proven again and again and again that it can not be trusted with my private information. They will do anything for money including selling your private information to the highest bidder, whether that be another corporation or the U.S. government.

With Linux being open source and peer reviewed, it is nearly impossible to hide back-doors or other nefarious code without someone spotting it, reporting it, and more importantly, removing it. When you use Windows, you are using a black box that you have very little control over and have very little idea of its true inner workings.

Anyway, I'll just leave it at that. It is not my intention to hijack this thread with a battle of the operating systems. It was merely my intention to ascertain whether or not this most excellent OPL3 Synthesizer would ever have a snowball's chance of ever getting a much desired and much needed port to the Linux operating system.

Since this thread has already been resurrected:

looks like you are clever enough to work your way into linux but apparently not clever enough to turn off all the privacy concerns in windows 10... chapeau

MS has been doubling down on the privacy invasion since 2019 (and worse.....) so i'm looking forward to a linux OPL midi driver too. Fluidsynth + 128m OPL3 sucks!

@schlang: I am clever enough to disable all of the privacy invading features of Windows that Windows will allow you to disable, but there are hidden back doors and other spyware features that you can't disable, no matter how "clever" you think you are, and no matter which version of Windows you have. If you think you have disabled all of them, then you are not so clever your own self.

The 3 letter agencies had Microsoft put those "features" into the operating system on purpose, just like it had the chip manufacturers put back doors into the chips that went into your cell phone so that they can hack and spy on any cell phone they want. Snowden proved that beyond any shadow of a doubt, but I knew it before he presented his evidence to the rest of the world.

This is why Windows isn't even allowed to be used by certain governments in the world because they don't want foreign intelligence agencies spying on their official government business. Look it up if you don't believe me.

Even your motherboard is compromised these days. They are rooted, with an internet connection and a mini OS, and they can spy on you before you ever install any operating system at all, whether it be Windows or Linux. My newest motherboard is even capable of automatically detecting an installation of Windows and forcing Windows to install drivers and spyware, unless you specifically remember to disable this feature in the BIOS before the first boot of Windows. What else is it installing into Windows behind your back, and without your permission, that you can't even disable?

Even the USB drive containing the drivers that came with my latest motherboard was compromised, and it will root your system if you stick it into any USB port, if you are foolish enough to use it. This is so the Chinese spy agencies can also have a go at your personal data.

Do your due diligence, do your own homework, and you will see that everything I have said is true. I've been studying the scum that rule this world for many many years now and I don't say the things that I've said, lightly or without knowledge. If you think your computer is secure, just because you turned off a few options that Windows would "allow" you to turn off, then you are blissfully ignorant of how this world really works.

And by the way, just like leileilol, I'm still looking forward to a Linux OPL MIDI driver too. Given the state of modern day Windows, it is getting more and more important all of the time to be able to play our classic games we grew up with and love, without being forced to run a spyware riddled, and compromised, operating system like Windows.

The post argues that Windows, regardless of version, contains hidden surveillance features that users cannot fully disable. These were allegedly added intentionally at the request of intelligence agencies. The author also claims that modern hardware, including motherboards and USB driver sticks, are compromised with spyware capabilities even before an OS is installed. They suggest that even Linux may not be fully safe due to hardware-level vulnerabilities. The conclusion emphasizes distrust in mainstream tech, urges personal research, and promotes using Linux for legacy gaming to avoid Windows-based surveillance.

schlang wrote on 2025-08-07, 16:00:

The post argues that Windows, regardless of version, contains hidden surveillance features that users cannot fully disable. These were allegedly added intentionally at the request of intelligence agencies. The author also claims that modern hardware, including motherboards and USB driver sticks, are compromised with spyware capabilities even before an OS is installed. They suggest that even Linux may not be fully safe due to hardware-level vulnerabilities. The conclusion emphasizes distrust in mainstream tech, urges personal research, and promotes using Linux for legacy gaming to avoid Windows-based surveillance.

@schlang: Yes, I assert all of those things, and I do so very strongly. Nice of you to use AI to sum it all up nice and neat for the people that won't take the time to read my entire comment.

I don't even remember why I've been subscribed to this thread... But current off-topic discussion is fun.

DragonSlayer wrote on 2025-08-07, 16:10:

@schlang: Yes, I assert all of those things, and I do so very strongly. Nice of you to use AI to sum it all up nice and neat for the people that won't take the time to read my entire comment.

In your previous comment you missed the built-in hardware backdoors in all modern computer processors 😉

analog_programmer wrote on 2025-08-07, 16:32:

In your previous comment you missed the built-in hardware backdoors in all modern computer processors 😉

You are correct. This is why there are various groups out there that have been trying for years now to create an open source CPU to get rid of those very back-doors that you mention.

BTW, I love your avatar. Idiocracy was one of the greatest underrated movies that has ever been made.

leileilol wrote on 2025-08-07, 15:38:

MS has been doubling down on the privacy invasion since 2019 (and worse.....) so i'm looking forward to a linux OPL midi driver too. Fluidsynth + 128m OPL3 sucks!

It should probably be easier to test it on ReactOS, since it's basically open source Windows (also no privacy invasion there).

DragonSlayer wrote on 2025-08-07, 16:10:

@schlang: Yes, I assert all of those things, and I do so very strongly. Nice of you to use AI to sum it all up nice and neat for the people that won't take the time to read my entire comment.

you're welcome my friend. I'm one of the people that didn't read the entire comment

Excuse my off-topic comment. This will be my last one of this type here.

DragonSlayer wrote on 2025-08-07, 16:54:

BTW, I love your avatar. Idiocracy was one of the greatest underrated movies that has ever been made.

Almost 20 years ago this movie was just a comedy... Now all over the world we're living in idiocracy - ruled by idiots and mostly surrounded by idiots. Some people say - the movie has become a documentary.

I don't know if it's true, that the movie was banned in most of the US theaters after it's first week on screen, but I remember there was such info circulating online. Perhaps you can tell for sure.

analog_programmer wrote on 2025-08-07, 19:24:

I don't know if it's true, that the movie was banned in most of the US theaters after it's first week on screen, but I remember there was such info circulating online. Perhaps you can tell for sure.

I don't know if it ever was banned at the theater level, but it seems to be banned from being released on Bluray because I've been trying to find it to buy for many years now and it is only available through the old DVD release. I believe it is being suppressed because it exposes too fully the tactics that the Chinese Communist are using to subvert and destroy the various governments of the west. This is the form that modern day warfare takes. Nuclear weapons make it nearly impossible to have traditional warfare, so they destroy us by dumbing us down, poisoning our food, our air, our soil, our water through chlorine, fluoride and other chemicals, our bodies through vaccines and other dangerous pharmaceuticals, and ultimately, our brains through poisonous thoughts. I.E. TikTok, social media and the mockingbird mass media.