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First post, by ZanQuance

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I would like to know what (if any) publicly available software implemented OPL3 emulations were available during this time frame.
I'm trying to figure out how Aureal came up with their implementation, whether it was from a Yamaha license, reverse engineering, or something that was publicly available at the time.
Media Vision might have had something in the works before being reborn as Aureal.
Come 1998 almost all non-hardware OPL3 PCI cards had it as a TSR in one form or another, so what was the base code everyone seemed to be working off of at the time?

Who did it first mystery!

Reply 1 of 4, by leileilol

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My first guess would've been Ensoniq Soundscape, but i'm not so sure on that since I never had one or checked its drivers.
Remember in that timeframe, OPL FM sound was something many vendors tried to shake off

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Reply 2 of 4, by swaaye

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Soundscape and AudioPCI don't really do FM at all. They try to use the MIDI synth for the FM output. It's horrible. SBLive and the rebranded AudioPCI cards like SBPCI64/128 have an upgraded version of the AudioPCI's DOS driver that does have FM. It's a bit less terrible but you don't really want to use it.

Reply 3 of 4, by ZanQuance

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Do you know if there were any community driven OPL emulations back then, and if Yamaha had licensed out an emulation of their chip(s)?

Reply 4 of 4, by leileilol

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I've never seen any OPL emulation projects in 94-96. Dosemu did exist in this time so what did they have then?

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