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Supporting real OPL3 on modern Windows
I modified opl_proxy to use inpout32.dll. This makes it possible to use real OPL3 chip on modern Windows. Is it possible to add this patch into the OPL3BankEditor? Thanks. opl_proxy.zip
Nice! Yes, it's very possible! :fox_face: :wink: Also, which conditions to this work? I mean, which sound card I would to try to let this work? Is it's fine with C-Media chips? I have some sound cards are equipped with OPL3 clone on them. I think, why not to also make similar thing for Linux too? (would to check, will be possible to access the chip directly or I need to make some sort of a bridge in a form of kernel module).
It should work on CMI8738 cards. To access the OPL3 synth on a CMI8738 card, set the OPL3 base port to the base address of your card + 50. For example if your CMI8738 is at address 0xe00, you set the OPL3 base address to 0xe50.
Then, looks, I'll need to also add the setup GUI to allow user set that up. Anyway, will this work from off the user space, or admin rights are needed? (for a worse case, an admin<->user additional bridge driver will be needed)
Inpout32.dll runs in user mode. Admin rights are only needed on first install of the driver.
Nice! :fox_face: Anyway, will try some experiments with this to be sure this will work...
Okay, I have made some changes over @jpcima 's changes:
- I made the sure that OPL emulator will work by default on modern Windows, otherwise, very rare cases will have hardware OPL chip support.
- I made OPL3 address setting be save-able
AppVeyor's automated CI devbuild (http://wohlsoft.ru/docs/_laboratory/_Builds/win32/opl3-bank-editor/opl3-bank-editor-dev-win32.zip) with Nuked OPL3 emulator doesn't work:
Cannot load inpout32.dll for hardware OPL playback
I don't have OPL3-based soundcard...
Having the fix applied, the software will open and work, however the message box "Cannot load inpout32" can still pop up. To make it go away, I think it's needed to run it as admin once. Then it will setup the necessary Windows things, and following runs no longer need the admin rights.
(as I remember, the inpout32 client embeds in its own dll a copy of the kernel-space helper)
A little question about inpout32.dll. Is here the 64bit version for it? Otherwise, 64-bit OPL3-BE won't support it...
A little question about inpout32.dll. Is here the 64bit version for it? Otherwise, 64-bit OPL3-BE won't support it...
I think 64-bit version is inpoutx64.dll, I'm not 100% sure though...
EDIT:http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/inpout32/
