Re: got adplay working, now what? can't play rols...

[Philip H. <ph...@la...>]

David,

I suggest using dosbox.sf.net and Visual Composer on your Mac.  I'm not sure 
if there are any other ROL editors.  (There are several dozen adlib formats, 
and you could try their editors.)

Phil

On Tuesday 18 May 2004 09:39 am, David Petrou wrote:
> >> however, i can't seem to play rol files.  what am i doing wrong?
> >> bwv988 0/140 ~/rols> adplay dreary.rol
> >> adplay: unknown filetype -- dreary.rol
> >
> > You need a standard.bnk (all lowercase) file in the same directory.
>
> Ahh!  Thank you.  May I suggest a better error message?
>
> I put in my standard.bnk and now all my ROLs play fine.  This is
> wonderful.  And it seems to sound exactly like my old adlib card, if my
> memory of about 15 years ago is working well.
>
> This is so much fun.  Is there a way to write new music in the ROL
> format on something like a Mac?  For instance, something like the
> Visual Composer?  Or perhaps a way to get something modern, like Logic
> to talk to adplug?  What about an instrument editor?
>
> > Concerning your mac problem, i'm seeing similar failures on a Sun Sparc
> > as well, lately. As there were no problems earlier with AdPlug, neither
> > on Sparc, nor on Mac, i'm guessing it could have something to do with a
> > newer version of the libstdc++ or a newer gcc. I'm working on that
> > right
> > now.
>
> ahh, great.
>
> > Simon
>
> thanks,
> david
>
>
>
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