The Ad Lib Legacy

[Cloudschatze]

In the words of H.P Baxxter, "I feel hardcore."

And there I thought that America would be spared.

"Lyrics" that terrible have a sort of universal notoriety. 

[BlueMax]

Wonderful to hear those original Adlib tunes again...  has it been so long?  Wow....

[Alan1828]

I still have an Original Adlib card boxed with everything inside "5.25 floppies" Black non-static bag for the card, registration and original reciept dated back to......, My 1st game was Spiderman and Dr.doom brings back memories.... How much is this worth nowadays? It still runs in my Compaq Portable

[Salient]

Cool,
I got a boxed adlib with everything as well (the 1987 version), which version is yours?
I also recently acquired a 1990 adlib soundcard, but without anything else, just the bare card.

[Cloudschatze]

I still need to scan the Ad Lib and Ad Lib Gold documentation at some point. I don't suppose anyone has the Visual Composer manual...?

[Salient]

I'm not sure, it could be in one of the boxes but I am unable to reach it at this moment, it's hidden deep somewhere in the basement with loads of trash thrown over it. Once I'm going to move I will try to find it.

[enigma]

I own a Mozart WaveTable and it also utilizes an OPL4 with the 2 MB ROM from Yamaha (no RAM).
The driver looks identical. It allows switching MIDI tracks from PCM to FM, but how did you played the 44 voice files?
Though I doubt that there is much use in replacing Wavetable-Synthesized MIDI Tracks with FM-Synthesized.

My overall impression is, that the Wavetable doesn't sound too bad.

[Cloudschatze]

I own a Mozart WaveTable...The driver looks identical.

I imagine most OPL4-based cards use a variant of this same driver - Yamaha wrote it, after all.

...how did you played the 44 voice files?

The 44-voice files were played-back using the MediaTrix Jukebox. According to WHATSNEW.TXT, in the driver archive, "Game developers and amateur musicians take note ! Only the Jukebox for Windows is able to play these 44 voice compositions."

[Cloudschatze]

I'm working on scanning Ad Lib documentation. Does anyone have Composition Projects #2, or the MSC Programmer's Manual?