keropi wrote:

...maybe playing midi music and opl2 sfx?

Zeliard can be configured in this manner.

^ thanks for the info this will do just fine 😀

How does that work? Require a patched driver or something? I've got the game and I recall it only has one sound option and Roland MT-32 is just by itself I thought?

CrossBow777 wrote:

How does that work? Require a patched driver or something?

Not at all. A complete copy of Zeliard should contain the following music drivers:

• MSCADLIB.DRV - Ad Lib
• MSCJR.DRV - PCjr/Tandy
• MSCMT.DRV - MT-32
• MSCSTD.DRV - PC Beeper (with single and "multi-channel" toggling)

And the following sound-effect drivers:

• SNDADLIB.DRV - Ad Lib
• SNDJR.DRV - PCjr/Tandy
• SNDSTD.DRV - PC Beeper

The combination of Ad Lib music and PCjr/Tandy sound-effects is particularly nice.

Zeliard is indeed an interesting game, both in terms of music and technology.
I once used it for testing my home made Covox Speech Thing clones and Temu (that's a Tandy 3-Voice emulator).
If memory serves, there's a key combo to enabled/disable "multi-channel" PC-Speaker music if PC-Speaker is selected for music.

Another musically interesting game is Silpheed. Some tracks (musical scores) are really good IMHO.. 😀

keropi wrote:

... playing midi music and opl2 sfx?

Dune 2 can do this with a patch (It's how I configure it).

Raptor can do this as well as Doom engine games with some modification. All these games use DMX sound library

every game that allows configuring sound device separately for sound and music 😉

Any game using the IBM Music Feature Card or Yamaha FB-01 uses MIDI and FM at the same time, given that they are both MIDI-based FM synthesizers 😀

Scali wrote:

Any game using the IBM Music Feature Card or Yamaha FB-01 uses MIDI and FM at the same time, given that they are both MIDI-based FM synthesizers 😀

Then hundreds of games use MIDI and FM at the same time, as most middleware libraries like Miles Sound System or HMI SOS convert MIDI to FM in real time.