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First post, by rcblanke

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Hi all,

Since it gets more and more problematic to have any influence on the midi device numbering in Windows, and adding and removing midi devices can alter the ordering of the devices in unpredictable ways, I thought it might be handy to also allow mididevice selection with DOSBox by using its name (or part of its name) in addition to its number/id. Please see the attached patch and compiled Windows executable. It works like in this example:

Z:\mixer /listmidi
0 "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth"
1 "E-MU XMidi1X1 Tab"
2 "UM-1G"

Z:\midiconfig=1
(Status window shows: MIDI:win32 selected E-MU XMidi1X1 Tab MIDI:Opened device:win32)

Z:\midiconfig=um
(Status window shows: MIDI:win32 selected UM-1G MIDI:Opened device:win32)

Z:\midiconfig=xmidi
(Status window shows: MIDI:win32 selected E-MU XMidi1X1 Tab MIDI:Opened device:win32)

I hope someone will find this useful.

Regards,
Ronald

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Reply 2 of 30, by Yesterplay80

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I'd also like to thank you for your patch! I have implemented it in my DOSBox ECE build.

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Reply 7 of 30, by Dominus

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Screenshot or it didn't happen 😀

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Reply 8 of 30, by KainXVIII

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Dominus wrote:

Screenshot or it didn't happen 😀

Sorry!

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Reply 9 of 30, by Dominus

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hmm, for me neither... with svn on OS X

Edit: well, it's not supposed to work on Linux/OS X 😀

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Reply 11 of 30, by Dominus

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and it's the same when you are not in the NC shell?

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Reply 12 of 30, by KainXVIII

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Dominus wrote:

and it's the same when you are not in the NC shell?

Yes, i specially checked it without NC.

Last edited by KainXVIII on 2017-02-01, 21:56. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 13 of 30, by Dominus

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And of course: does it work with lock stock DOSBox 0.74?

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Reply 14 of 30, by KainXVIII

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Dominus wrote:

And of course: does it work with lock stock DOSBox 0.74?

Proof 😀

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Reply 16 of 30, by Dominus

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Does it work if you use the new build without any autoexec commands or other commands? Asking to make sure you haven't accidentally another mixer program interfering

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Reply 17 of 30, by KainXVIII

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Holy cow! I finally found the cause of why this patch is not working for me - i need to delete mt-32 roms from dosbox folder (and i even don't use builtin MT-32 emulation, only external MUNT)

Reply 19 of 30, by Dominus

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Yes, probably something like "if roms in folder x -> midi=mt32emu" to have less config settings but screwing up everything else. Or mt32 emu is enabled by default and failing without the roms and thus enabling normal midi again.

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