Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS
Posted on 2018-12-11, 20:09
CrossBow777 wrote: 0.9.5 seems to be working just fine! Awesome :) Thanks again for the quick fix on this! My pleasure.
Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS
Posted on 2018-12-10, 14:44
Is there any difference in loading UltraMID and using DOSMID /GUS to loading MegaEM and using DOSMID /MPU regarding the output? Additional comment on this one: while I have no clue whether the output is different or not, there is a major difference in how these two drivers work. ULTRAMID is a 100% …
Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS
Posted on 2018-12-10, 14:05
Is there any difference in loading UltraMID and using DOSMID /GUS to loading MegaEM and using DOSMID /MPU regarding the output? What does DOSMID do in the case the 1 MB RAM is not sufficient, e.g. if I run it with UltraMID -16 and load a Midi file that uses a lot of different instruments? These are …
Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS
Posted on 2018-12-10, 12:52
For the case of /GUS and UltraMID is not loaded, can you attempt to do a 'lh ultramid' automatically? (and unload on exit if it was loaded successfully 'on demand' ?) Well, technically I could, but that's not something I am willing to do :) I think it is not the kind of actions that a program …
Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS
Posted on 2018-12-10, 10:34
...and now I released v0.9.5. DOSMid v0.9.5 [10 Dec 2018] - Fixed file-reading module (buff corruption on first cache boundary read). Thanks to CrossBow777 for reporting this bug!
Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS
Posted on 2018-12-10, 09:22
Correct it seems to work fine in 0.9.3 so this is a new issue introduced in the latest version. As an example of the files I'm using. On the first page of this thread is an attachment to the Quest Studios mids from some of the Sierra adventure games. Several of those mids include specific MT-32 …
Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS
Posted on 2018-12-09, 17:11
Was testing out the latest release this morning and unless I"m doing something wrong, it is giving me errors when trying to load up the Sysex files from the quest studios pack. I can get it to play the other .mids from that pack for the MT-32 that use standard instrument mt-32 mapping, but I'm not …
Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?
Posted on 2018-12-09, 17:09
elianda wrote: Is it GUS or GUS PnP support? 1 MB GUS classic with pat, like cubic Player or 16 MB with fff files and Effects? I have honestly no idea. DOSMid talks to the "ultramid" driver, don't know what this one talks to next.
Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS
Posted on 2018-12-09, 15:17
Hello all, Today I released a new version of DOSMid, my midi player for DOS. Changelog below. DOSMid v0.9.4 [09 Dec 2018] - UI displays channels as 'piano' if no instrument is explicitely loaded, - reduced libc dependencies (smaller footprint), - displaying the MIDI tracks count, - displaying the …
Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?
Posted on 2018-12-09, 15:15
Hello all, just to say that I released DOSMid v0.9.4 today. This version comes with GUS support (at least it works in DOSBox, don't have real hardware to test). Hopefully it should work with this awesome GUS clone you're building here guys. http://dosmid.sourceforge.net
Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?
Posted on 2018-02-19, 17:37
Hello Keropi & 640K!enough, thank you for taking the time to run DOSMid on your boards. I'm glad that it worked. I am aware of the 'first note is mute' problem, and I already have working solutions for it, but I didn't want to invest time into this without knowing that it will actually work at all …
Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?
Posted on 2018-02-15, 16:06
Hi all, I'm wondering about adding GUS support to DOSMid . Done. I cannot test it with actual hardware, but it seems to work on DOSBox at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa5HADhxSgM Here is a temporary link to the 'preview' DOSMid version featuring GUS support: http://mateusz.viste.fr/tmp/ …
Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?
Posted on 2018-02-12, 15:23
I guess your best bet would be the "InterWave Programmer's Guide" from the SDK - https://files.scene.org/view/mirrors/hornet/code/audio/docs/iw_sdk20.zip There is a wealth of information inside, thanks for the link! I will see if I can easily add support to DOSMid. Don't have any GUS hardware to …
Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?
Posted on 2018-02-12, 14:03
Hi all, I'm wondering about adding GUS support to DOSMid . I understand that the GUS doesn't present a MPU interface and needs to be programmed directly (unless used with the MEGA-EM thing which most people are complaining about). Any chance someone here would have some documentation about how the …
Re: DOSMid - an open-source MIDI player for DOS
Posted on 2018-02-12, 13:03
I also like and use your player under DOS. Previously you have already discussed with James-F that by default all midi channels are Program 0 (Acoustic Grand Piano) after a reset according to GM specification. Now your player plays the files good even when explicit PC messages are missing in files. …
Re: Modern options/alternatives for Interlnk?
Posted on 2018-02-12, 05:42
Like I said above, you do it the way Samba does. First file is FILE.TXT, second is FILE~1.TXT, third is FILE~2.TXT, etc. That problem has already been solved. Heck even DOSBox does it this way, but most people don't even notice because you never have files named like this anyway unless something …
Re: Modern options/alternatives for Interlnk?
Posted on 2018-02-11, 06:38
What are some of the corner cases that come up when you're only dealing with converting an ASCII character set to upper/lower case? File matching. An application wants to open 'FILE.TXT', and on disk there is 'file.txt', 'FILE.txt' and 'FILE.TXT'. Which one do I actually return? Later, an …
Re: MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter Released!
Posted on 2018-02-09, 22:16
mateusz.viste MDA is fine on dreamblaster's boards, see this shot I made: Yes, I did see it - I was just saying that if he'd happen to have a 'failed' unit that still works with MDA, instead of throwing it out I'd happily buy it since I'm not interested in EGA/CGA anyway. I need it only for …
Re: Modern options/alternatives for Interlnk?
Posted on 2018-02-09, 22:05
Sounds like it needs some server-side code to avoid case sensitivity, like Samba does when sharing a case-sensitive filesystem over CIFS. As keenerb observed, "easier said than done" :-) As soon as case-sensivity is involved, lots of ugly corner cases appear. Dealing with them rapidly becomes a …
Re: MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter Released!
Posted on 2018-02-09, 21:34
The 2.0 project is already on his site. Yes indeed, but it also says 'If you are planning to build a new one wait just a little more, a new version 2.0 is under development.' - so I understood that there will be another (improved) "2.0"... but now that I re-read it, I probably misunderstood the …
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