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 …

I think the problem is that the MIDI writer in DRO2MIDI is a fairly simplistic one - I didn't actually write it myself so I don't know how well it sticks to the spec. At any rate there seems to be quite a bit of misunderstanding about the purpose of DRO2MIDI - a lot of people seem to expect it to …

I think the problem is that dro2mid produces Type-0 MIDI files, which is an early format that only has one track. FLStudio would seem not to recognise this format properly. When most MIDI sequencers open a Type-0 file they create a separate track for each channel, so you should end up with around 16 …

Okay, I've done some more experimenting, and to answer your questions: The problem exists in both windowed and fullscreen mode. The window is 1280x800, which is and has always been less than the screen resolution. The problem exists at 1600x1200 and 2560x1600. The window size is at the "default", …

Thanks for your replies! It's definitely not the monitor (otherwise the screenshot would've appeared fine, I would've had to take a photo) and my screen settings are the same for watching video and DOSBox - don't change the resolution, don't change the refresh rate. FWIW that screenshot was taken on …

Hi everyone, For some time now I've noticed that DOSBox can't display the screen properly when using the overlay and the window is above a certain size. Initially I thought this was a problem with my video card (or the nVidia Linux drivers), but watching video is fine and the problem is the same …

@Zum: That's one of the problems that MiniMax's compile is exhibiting. I'm not sure either why it's having problems. I'll have a look at the source to see if I can make it a bit more portable. @IIGS_User: I'm not sure why the new executable is having problems either - I compiled it in the same way …

Great, thanks! It's on the website now. Actually, could you try converting this file with the win32 version? It doesn't seem to be working. I had a bit of trouble with signed char vs unsigned char, and I think it needs to be compiled with bare "char" defaulting to signed char otherwise there could …

Yes, I'm not entirely sure why it's there - I *think* the logic is wrong (the "!" isn't meant to be there) in which case enabling the percussive instruments would trigger the recording, but this would mean that in most cases it would start too early. (Not to mention a whole bunch of other unrelated …

Hi again - I've released a new version of DRO2MIDI (v1.2) which does a slightly better job of the conversion. It also now supports .raw and .imf files, as well as .dro. If you're in a compiling mood MiniMax, a Win32 version would be much appreciated! 😀

Hi everyone, I recently discovered that when capturing OPL music with DOSBox, it doesn't always start the capture with the first note played (although it's supposed to.) I found out that this is because it only monitors one of the "noteon" ports on the OPL chip, whereas there are actually six of …

Sure, just put a link back to the web page somewhere so that people can get hold of the source code if they want.

Great - thanks for that! I've added it to the web page. It's possible the filesize came out differently if you ran it in the directory with all the .reg files - I removed all those when I created zone66_001.mid to get a "bare" conversion.

Hi everyone, When looking for specs on the .dro format a few days ago, I found a few threads where people were asking whether they could convert .dro files to a more useful format. In light of this (and because I've been meaning to for a while now), I've written a program that will convert .dro …

Why would you think that? Well I just assumed that Windows would keep to DOS' limitations - and as this problem surfaced when I unzipped a file created on a Windows box, I assumed that if you can have square brackets in Windows filenames... I just tried it under real DOS and you're right, you're …

Hi everyone, In DOSBox 0.65 (under Linux at least) if you try to create a file with brackets in the filename, it doesn't work: C:\>dir > a[b The debug messages indicate the file is being created but it never is. Likewise if you create a file outside of DOSBox: $ touch "b[c" Then try to access it …