Any plans to release the gerber files for this if there’s no more bring produced? It would be a shame for all this hard work to just sit on someone’s hard drive forever.

I'm extremely annoyed there's no AIL 3 driver (DIG) for the AdLib Gold. I mean there's the mdi driver, which i dunno if it does anything different to the generic OPL3 driver but most importantly there's no DIG (digital sound) driver for the AdLib Gold. Which is a shame cause from my own experience the AIL2 digital (ALGDIG.ADV) works really well. I'm wondering if there's source code for the AIL3 drivers similar to what exists for AIL2. I've been flirting with the idea of writing a DIG driver for the Adlib Gold. I think it deserves one. Wondering now if this deserves its own thread...

Hi there. I need some help from GoldLib users.

Recently i found out that, unlike other sound libraries, my Goldlib plays PCM sound usually with one channel disabled (or sound on that channel extremely low), but that happens ONLY with HMI SOS sound library. Examples of games that use HMI are Abuse or Under a Killing Moon, Pandora Directive. There are quite a lot more, but can only remember these from the top of my head. However, i found out that using the AdlIb Gold test program, playing out the test "Get ready for sound so rich it has to be called gold", or using the command line DOS utility to play these recorded phrases "fixes" the issue with the Goldlib card.

What i need is someone with the Goldlib to test some games with HMI SOS, and check if they can reproduce the issue i talked about. Then check if the method i mentioned solves the issue for you.

I also noticed a second issue... Some games using the DIGPAK sound library have the PCM sound on my GoldLib extremely distorted and scratchy. It always happens for me on Simon the Sorcerer. So i kindly request that GoldLib users test that one out too.

Hi !
I just stumbled on the AdLib Gold developer documentation, and it shows the difference between Gold 1000, and Gold 2000 versions.
Thought it would be good to preserve this information, since most of the available info for the 2000 version of the card is/was mostly speculation.

Here :

Do you have access to the whole documentation? What about programming info? I started developing a MSS3 / AIL3 Adlib Gold (PCM) driver but i'm stuck. Detection of the card is working fine, but it is the playback routine i can't progress with.

carlostex wrote on 2025-06-20, 15:25:

Do you have access to the whole documentation? What about programming info?

I do have access as it was lent to me for the documentary. Scanning it piece by piece. Has to be around 400 pages that sometimes are printed both sides.

Beegle wrote on 2025-06-20, 16:23:

carlostex wrote on 2025-06-20, 15:25:

Do you have access to the whole documentation? What about programming info?

I do have access as it was lent to me for the documentary. Scanning it piece by piece. Has to be around 400 pages that sometimes are printed both sides.

is there anything we can do to chip in with the costs for scanning this? i'd absolutely love to see this available.

i've a pretty vivid desire to write a WDM driver for this card, if not the time. such documentation would be incredible, all i'd found so far was the internet archive version of the SDK, which is pretty amazing in and of itself.

edit: based on the code in the SDK, the card itself probably isn't speed sensitive, only the way in which games use it (pre-DX2 and all that)

cheers!
-dc

Beegle wrote on 2022-11-23, 04:17:

Back to report my findings. Hope this helps anybody who wants to make a MIDI cable for their GoldLib in the future 😀

So, to confirm and officialize research for the MIDI pinout of the Gold card : from the developer toolkit :

slartibardfast0 wrote on 2025-06-20, 19:22:

is there anything we can do to chip in with the costs for scanning this? i'd absolutely love to see this available.
i've a pretty vivid desire to write a WDM driver for this card, if not the time. such documentation would be incredible, all i'd found so far was the internet archive version of the SDK, which is pretty amazing in and of itself.

Appreciate the help offered.
It's 90% scanned, I'm just having a hard time reordering the pages in a manner that makes sense since the copy machine I used just skipped a few here and there.
I'll be back when it's done. Soon-ish!