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LGB Z edited this page Mar 18, 2015 · 2 revisions

Introduction

AdLib was a famous sound card for PCs before the Sound Blaster era (early Sound Blaster cards later has AdLib compatibility on hardware level).

Details

AdLib has only OPL2 FM synth abilities, no digital playback capabilities (later AdLib gold tried to target that issue, but it was a bit late as Sound Blaster was quite comment for that time which was also cheaper and gave AdLib compatibility as well).

The heart of AdLib is a chip named YM3812. Fortunately, it's not so hard to use something similar with a Commodore 64 either: the SFX Sound Expander cartridge gave you this ability though the default chip was only an OPL (not OPL2) capable one. However some people replaced it with YM3812. I am not sure there are "original" cartridges with YM3812 chip though ...

Programming information

http://www.oplx.com/opl2/docs/adlib_sb.txt

AdLib modules (various formats)

ftp://modland.ziphoid.com/pub/modules/Ad%20Lib/

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