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First post, by Nitroraptor53

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Hi guys! It seems there hasn't been a dual OPL card made possibly since the early 90's. So... are there any plans of a Sound Blaster Pro, or PAS, clone? Or at least a diagram of one, for a PCBway board to be made?

Reply 3 of 5, by cyclone3d

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Nitroraptor53 wrote on 2020-03-05, 23:43:
cyclone3d wrote on 2020-03-05, 23:14:

On my watchlist, but that doesn't support two of a single OPL card.

It does support dual OPL2, see this post:
Re: FMonster, the monster of sound synth

Yamaha modified setupds and drivers
Yamaha XG repository
YMF7x4 Guide
Aopen AW744L II SB-LINK

Reply 4 of 5, by Nitroraptor53

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-03-06, 00:49:
Nitroraptor53 wrote on 2020-03-05, 23:43:
cyclone3d wrote on 2020-03-05, 23:14:

On my watchlist, but that doesn't support two of a single OPL card.

It does support dual OPL2, see this post:
Re: FMonster, the monster of sound synth

I see. Does it support SB Pro's DMA?

Reply 5 of 5, by SirNickity

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Isn't SB Pro's dual OPL2 support only relevant for like... the demo tune played by diagnose.exe and that's about it? Most of the software that actually used 2xOPL2 (all three games or whatever) seemed to prefer Media Vision's addressing. So if dual OPL2 is important to you, that's probably the better target. Dunno if the FMonster does both. It has been a while since I last compared all the I/O addresses of various card configurations, but I think I came to the conclusion once that a card with both SB Pro 1.0 and PAS dual OPL2 compatibility would break mono 1xOPL2, or OPL3, or something like that, and to do it right would probably require a software switchable I/O address decoder and/or mixer.