[Scummvm-devel] DOSBox Developers ask for help with new AdLib emulator

[Johannes Schickel]

Hi,

I guess as most of you know our rather old MAME based AdLib emulator has 
some problems. They are noticeable for example in the KYRA engine. Maybe 
other engines as well, I got told at least that the Indy4 intro sounds 
horrible with our emulator, though I didn't check it against the new 
MAME emulator (yet). Since the new MAME code is released under a non GPL 
compatible license it is not usable for us anyway.

Today I got contacted by c2woody, one of the DOSBox developers, about 
their new (L)GPL AdLib emulator. They still search someone to give them 
a helping hand on it. Since we would have a benefit of a new AdLib 
emulator too he  thought whether we have anyone on the team, who would 
be interested in contributing to it.

He gave me some links, who could be checked by interested people, to 
check if they think of being able to handle it.

First of all there's Ken Silverman's AdLib emulator available on his 
homepage: http://advsys.net/ken/ksmsongs.zip. From how I got it the new 
AdLib emulator is based on this one, since it's under the LGPL. The 
package also includes a DOS program to be used with an AdLib device. It 
might be helpful to compare output against a real AdLib device or 
DOSBox' current AdLib emulator.

Second there's Silverman's AdLib emulator integrated into AdPlug:
http://adplug.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/adplug/adplug/src/adlibemu.h?revision=1.2&view=markup
http://adplug.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/adplug/adplug/src/adlibemu.c?revision=1.2&view=markup
This might be helpful for testing and/or to integrate the emulator in 
ScummVM for simple tests, since it removes the inline ASM usage which 
the original emulator had.

If someone feels like he is able to work with that code and/or being 
able to compare the output against other AdLib emulators or even real 
AdLib devices, the DOSBox Team would be happy to get contacted via 
dosbox.crew at gmail.com.

// Johannes