Re: [Openvortex-dev] OPL3, VortexOfSound

[Ryan Underwood]

Hey Manuel,

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:33:11PM -0400, Manuel Jander wrote:
> Hi Ryan
> 
> I have some news about OPL3 support. I can confirm that the Aureal cards
> have a hardware OPL3 cell. I still have to find the exact address offset
> at which the 0x80 bytes OPL3 ram are is mapped in the MMIO space, but as
> soon as i know that i'll notify you.

Excellent! please keep me posted.  I have another software project which
would be greatly helped by a working OPL chip.

> The SoundBlaster emulation block semes to have no more than 4 output
> routing addresses, which have to be routed to the codec. This part of
> the story is somewhere inside of the DOS utility.
> 
> I think that the OPL3 part can be supported, but that would need more
> knowledge about the SoundBlaster emulation block "ADB" routing
> addresses.

Do you really thing the OPL cell has DSP routes?  Why would it not be
straight to a codec channel instead?

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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253