This piece of OPL music always stayed in my head. It was the first time i heard speech generated by a sound card.
https://youtu.be/YPNV0BG1R0M?si=ud8-j8AjBwk89VwM&t=60

Today i can understand how different sounds can sound like a voice, but back in the days as a 12 year old i was pretty impressed... Actually i am still impressed...

Bondi wrote on 2023-11-06, 11:06:

The games I could find that supported this trick. I believe some (all) of them were previously mentioned already. - Sango Fighte […]
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The games I could find that supported this trick. I believe some (all) of them were previously mentioned already.
- Sango Fighter (a new (version?)game from 2010)
- Stunt Driver
- Pinball fantasies
- F-15 Strike Eagle II
EDIT: - Fastdoom mod also supports FX sound via Adlib (with no music in the background, though)

The method itself is described here in all details https://github.com/leonardo-ono/Assembly8086P … dSoundAdlibOpl2

Doom 2D also could use AdLib as DAC for both sound and music (though it's all for digitized sound, they didn't used FM synthesis).

digger wrote on 2023-11-06, 15:17:

Bondi wrote on 2023-11-06, 11:06:

The games I could find that supported this trick. I believe some (all) of them were previously mentioned already. - Sango Fighte […]
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The games I could find that supported this trick. I believe some (all) of them were previously mentioned already.
- Sango Fighter (a new (version?)game from 2010)
- Stunt Driver
- Pinball fantasies
- F-15 Strike Eagle II
EDIT: - Fastdoom mod also supports FX sound via Adlib (with no music in the background, though)

The method itself is described here in all details https://github.com/leonardo-ono/Assembly8086P … dSoundAdlibOpl2

Thanks for the list, Bondi. Do you happen to know which of these also supported digital samples combined with FM music, using this method?

This would be an interesting case for viti95 to take a look at, maybe. 🙂

I tried Pinball fantasies and it doesn't combine music and sound effects. It plays mod music at the intro and does only sound effects during gameplay. EDIT: Pinball fantasies actually has an option to enable in-game music. So it does produce music and effects simultaneously.

I don't have the other games installed, but iirc none of them has background music when using Adlib for sound effects.
I can also confirm that Doom2D has Adlib PCM support, as binarymaster mentioned.
Besides I tried Tubular worlds(I liked it very much, btw) and Prince of Persia, it's hard to tell, but my feeling is that they don't actually play PCM sounds, but use usual FM for very basic beeps and boops, like ROTT, Cannon Fodder and many other games.

EDIT2: Another game I found is LHX: Attack Chopper

Found three more games:
- Electro Man (also known as Electro Body)
- Heartlight
- The Adventures of Robbo

I couldn't get the last one running with sound, but that's probably due to my (PCMCIA) setup or a cracked game version. All 3 games come form the same studio and have identical sound setup program. The other two worked fine.

EDIT: Three more candidates, still need to check:
- Space Ace
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant

FastDoom supports sound + digitized music with a single OPL2 chip (ISA and OPLxLPT). The code is all written in C so it's easier to read:

https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom/blob/maste … DOOM/ns_adbfx.c

It's a bit faster on ISA cards, as the OPLxLPT devices require additional writes to the parallel port.

@ViTi95 I assume with "digitized music" you mean tracker music as opposed to FM music?

I'm still wondering whether it would be feasible to combine PCM sound effects with FM music playback, at least on an OPL3, which has twice the number of channels as an OPL2 and also doesn't need long delays between port writes like the OPL2 does.

Tracker music is more CPU intensive than playing directly raw PCM music, so I ended up using raw PCM music for FastDoom.

ViTi95 wrote on 2023-11-14, 18:38:

Tracker music is more CPU intensive than playing directly raw PCM music, so I ended up using raw PCM music for FastDoom.

Unless GUS 😀

Links 386 Pro supports Adlib for PCM sound effects (it does not have music).

jtchip wrote on 2023-11-21, 01:21:

Links 386 Pro supports Adlib for PCM sound effects (it does not have music).

Ah yes, good old RealSound.
The original release of Links also has AdLib support, and it plays digital music during the title sequence.

I believe the diskette version of X-Wing does... There is Hardball III also.

X-Wing will switch to adlib sounds automatically when there's not enough memory or if there's a pcm sound currently playing

Jetpack supports AdLib for non-digitized sound effects and doesn't have any background music. Certain sound effects still only played thru AdLib when a SB compatible sound card is present, akin to Wolfenstein 3-D and Blake Stone.

I know SCUMM has already been mentioned, but the original VGA Release of The Secret of Monkey Island does this - 1990 - the one with the green text and the purple text-only inventory. Ultima VII parts 1 & 2 also supported sound effects via Adlib as well. Sometimes I'm forced to use that configuration because of the bloody memory management nightmare VooDoo is. I think a lot of Origin and LucasArts releases are like this.

SoMI has a hilarious door close sound on OPL, sounds like someone putting a cork in a bottle: Chef "Stay outta' the kitchen (Boomp)"

Jurassic Park you can set up Adlib for SFX and SB/MT32/SC for music.

Riikcakirds wrote on 2023-12-19, 00:27:

Jurassic Park you can set up Adlib for SFX and SB/MT32/SC for music.

I tried JP, but it unfortunately doesn't actually play PCM sound via Adlib, it uses FM for SFX. If I set SB for SFX it sounds quite differently.

A nice game nevertheless. But the character runs very slowly (on a 486 DX50). Is it supposed to be like that? Same is in DosBox.