Subj : Creative Labs
To   : ZL4KJ
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Sep 08 2025 14:48:45

  Re: Creative Labs
  By: ZL4KJ to Nightfox on Tue Sep 09 2025 08:28 am

 ZL>  I kind of regret not keeping a hold of the AdLib when I originally
 ZL> upgraded to  he Sound Blaster, It would have made a good addition to
 ZL> vintage collection.    
 ZL>  Though the AdLib was a far cry from the 5.1 Surround sound I have setup
 ZL> with th Sound Blaster Z.

That would have been cool to keep.

A few years ago, I heard about a company called RetroWave that was making USB devices that had an OPL3 chip on them, for a genuine Adlib-compatible device. It appears as a serial device, and there's a version of DOSBox where you can configure it to route AdLib audio requests to a serial device, so you could use one of these USB devices to get genuine AdLib audio from a DOS game. The device has its own analog speaker/headphone output:

https://tinyurl.com/4wh2chmh

I'm not sure if they're still making that anymore, but it looks like there is a RetroWave OPL3 Express currently available, which may be a newer version:

https://shop.sudomaker.com/products/retrowave-opl3-express

Nightfox

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