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Playing MIDI via the OPL Emulation

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First post, by NotOminous

Posted on 2006-11-17, 12:05

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I've had a fair look around but can't find anything on this... I'm also a DOS Box newbie by the way.

What I want to do is play MIDI files using DOS Box's OPL emulation.

I downloaded a MIDI player called Mega Mid. When I try playing MIDIs through it with my default setup, it simply puts it through to Windows (which ends up being some awful wavetable crap). I'd like it to play using the OPL emulation. How should I go about this? Is it something in DOS Box's config, Mega Mid's config, or a both?

Here's Mega Mid's options:

Reply 1 of 6, by Qbix

Posted on 2006-11-17, 12:10

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you would need midi emulator instead of a midi player ?

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Reply 2 of 6, by NotOminous

Posted on 2006-11-17, 23:20

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Sorry, I might be missing something, but is there no way to throw the MIDI messages at the OPL emulation instead of Windows? Does OPL work with General MIDI?

Reply 3 of 6, by gulikoza

Posted on 2006-11-17, 23:34

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OPL is not General Midi compatible. Most games used custom drivers for OPL chips.
One solution however is to play midi files in Windows (Win31 inside dosbox 😀) with a media player. That will play through OPL chip, but I'm not sure how accurate the playback is (well, how accurate is OPL anyway 😁)

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Reply 4 of 6, by NotOminous

Posted on 2006-11-18, 22:01

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Aah. Thanks for the help.

Reply 5 of 6, by Freddo

Posted on 2006-11-19, 04:20

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Years ago I used DJGPP and Allegro and with Allegro there was a small example program that play MIDI files. I just tried that example program in DOSBox 0.65, and it's very possible to use it to play MIDI files thru OPL3. At least the playback is accurate enough for me.

Cubic Player is probably able to play it too, but I haven't tried it.

Reply 6 of 6, by vasyl

Posted on 2006-11-19, 06:42

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Most all Soundblaster cards came with a small program called PLAYMIDI. Last time I've checked, that worked flawlessly in DOSBox.

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