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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 22:22:12 +0100
From: Deltaman <deltaman AT swipnet DOT se>
Reply-To: deltaman AT swipnet DOT se
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To: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Allegro MIDI question
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Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> Deltaman writes:
> >the and using it as a temporary background tune in my game. It was so
> >easy to use it. But then I loaded the same .mid into the Win 95 Media
> >Player and there it sounded a lot better and it used all channels.
> >
> >My question is: Is it possible to use all channels in Allegro? It would
> >sound a lot better.
> 
> What soundcard do you have? Allegro currently only has MIDI drivers for
> the OPL synth chips and the MPU-401 interface, so it won't use a GUS or
> AWE32 to their full potential.
> 
I have a SB pro 'compatible' card which should use an equivelant (sorry
for my
bad English) chip to the OPL 3. It's name is OPTI 930 and it should also
be compatible to Windows Sound System.

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