AdLcom

A AdLib Driver for serial port.

This is a AdLib TSR Program for MS-DOS Forked from the project AdLipt instead of using LPT port is using COM port to send the Register and value to a serial port.

Hardware Requirements

• OPL2Board https://www.tindie.com/products/cheerful/opl2-audio-board/ Or
• OPL3Duo https://www.tindie.com/products/cheerful/opl3-duo/
• Arduino Nano
• MAX232L https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N42QW8X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
• 386 Computer
• Memory Manager JEMM or QEMM or EMM386

Download

Download the driver from the Github releases tab.

Wiring instructions

Before usage you should follow the instructions from

https://github.com/DhrBaksteen/ArduinoOPL2

Connect the Arduino to the OPL2Board and Connect the MAX232 with this wiring guide.

MAX232 PIN Arduino
VCC "<------------->" 3.3V
TX "<------------->" TX
RX "<------------->" RX
GND "<------------->" GND

Usage

Load the TSR with the command:

ADLCOM

assuming the board is plugged into COM1. It will use about a kilobyte of RAM. It can be loaded into high memory using the DOS LH command.

The TSR can be unloaded with the command:

ADLCOM UNLOAD

JEMM

Load ADLCOM using the command:

JLOAD JADLCOM.DLL

Options

• COM1/COM2/COM3/COM4 Select COM port.

• BLASTER=220 Enable Sound Blaster FM emulation. ADLCOM will intercept the Sound Blaster FM ports in addition to the standard AdLib ports. (It won't however fake enough of a Sound Blaster to pass installation checks, so this won't be very useful if you don't have a Sound Blaster.)

• NOPATCH Disable runtime patching. Without runtime patching the TSR will be much slower, but the I/O timing will be much more regular, which might help with software that's very timing sensitive.

• OPL3 Enable support for OPL3 Board.should be used with Nuke.YKT Protocol.

Source code

This program compiles with OpenWatcom, use the build.sh script. You'll also need Python 3 and the Ragel state machine compiler.

Donations

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Copying

Copyright © 2023 Jose Phillips Copyright © 2020 Peter De Wachter (pdewacht@gmail.com)

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

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