It looks cool. 😎

I see you too share the partiality to the text mode like I do 😉
The program works just fine, it is a good start to a multi-format player. Good luck! 😀

Thunder wrote:

I've been wanting a program to play back, extract, convert and record midi sequences from old dos games.

The extract and convert functions are most interesting.

Cheers!

Most of the reason I started this is because I wanted to play the XMI midi music from Wing Commander: Privateer. I'd extracted the XMI files out of the .TRE files, but the only program I could find to convert them was XMI2MID by some dude called Marcus Hein(sp?) and it gets the timing completly wrong.

WhiteFalcon:
I'm a UNIX/C programmer by day and do no GUI coding at all, command line and ncurses is what i'm most familar with 😀

Kreshna:
Extracting and converting was only a trivial extension to the program. If the format can be reverse engineered for playback, then saving it out as a .MID does not require any extra code to be written.

Thunder wrote:

I'm a UNIX/C programmer by day <snip>

And it shows 😀 --file=xxxxx

Thunder wrote:

Kreshna:
Extracting and converting was only a trivial extension to the program. If the format can be reverse engineered for playback, then saving it out as a .MID does not require any extra code to be written.

Just wonder: have you tried the opening song of Cobra Mission?

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Just wonder: have you tried the opening song of Cobra Mission?

No, I've never heard of that game.

Thunder wrote:

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Just wonder: have you tried the opening song of Cobra Mission?

No, I've never heard of that game.

It's a hentai game, and the opening theme is a typical anime soundtrack, but it's quite nice.

Thunder: what about changing the "u" to ü in ubermid ? other than that, I think it is a cool thing you are doing 😀

WolverineDK:
Thanks.
If I can figure out how to type in the U with an umlaut I'll stick that in.

Kreshna:
If I can find a copy of the game then I can give it a go. Is it an MT32 or GM track?

Thunder wrote:

If I can find a copy of the game then I can give it a go. Is it an MT32 or GM track?

It's not MT-32 for sure.... I think it's a GM track, but the game doesn't support anything other than AdLib and SB Pro --it doesn't support GM. Probably it's AdLib track?

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

It's not MT-32 for sure.... I think it's a GM track, but the game doesn't support anything other than AdLib and SB Pro --it doesn't support GM. Probably it's AdLib track?

Oh, I can't do anything with that then.

The game has to support either General Midi, Roland or MPU-401 as a sound card option. Adlib isn't a midi device and does not accept midi commands.

Thunder wrote:

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

It's not MT-32 for sure.... I think it's a GM track, but the game doesn't support anything other than AdLib and SB Pro --it doesn't support GM. Probably it's AdLib track?

Oh, I can't do anything with that then.

The game has to support either General Midi, Roland or MPU-401 as a sound card option. Adlib isn't a midi device and does not accept midi commands.

I see. Fortunately, many old games do support either GM or MPU-401, like Sierra and Origin games. I think Cobra Mission is quite a rarity.

Can we get a console only version (something that can run in dosbox)?
Depending on required resources, it should compile through Msys/MinGW.
Additionally, I am getting a few seg-faults (most likely mem-allocations
not being deallocated before exit)

taiken7 wrote:

Can we get a console only version (something that can run in dosbox)? Depending on required resources, it should compile through […]
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Can we get a console only version (something that can run in dosbox)?
Depending on required resources, it should compile through Msys/MinGW.
Additionally, I am getting a few seg-faults (most likely mem-allocations
not being deallocated before exit)

Porting it to dos? I'm not really keen on that, since it would be quite a bit of work. besides, there are other dos programs that will do that. google for a program called Megamid.

If you could let me know how to replicate the segvs you are getting (supply the midi file you're using and what version of windows etc) I'll fix them. There is minimal sanity checking on the midi files, so if it's corrupt or badly formed then my program will behave unpredictably (ie, crash).

Tested with all the supplied midi's. (I'm driving an SB Xfi ElitePro).
It seems to consistently crash on exit (or if I use the MT32 option without
my MT32 connected).

The error message is
''Unhandled exception in UberMid.exe (NTDLL.DLL): 0xc0000005: Access Violation''
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826220

Using 32bit depth, so it must be something about office components.
(Too tired to troubleshoot at the moment though)
Have read forcing 2000 compatibility option may fix it.. but again its only
a console app (?!).

[Also of note is that it displays only ANSI instrument names, unlike
the bars that appear in the screenshot as well; it's a tidy app otherwise
.. if only I could use Dosbox to drive emulated MT32]

taiken7 wrote:

Tested with all the supplied midi's. (I'm driving an SB Xfi ElitePro). It seems to consistently crash on exit (or if I use the […]
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Tested with all the supplied midi's. (I'm driving an SB Xfi ElitePro).
It seems to consistently crash on exit (or if I use the MT32 option without
my MT32 connected).

The error message is
''Unhandled exception in UberMid.exe (NTDLL.DLL): 0xc0000005: Access Violation''
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826220

Using 32bit depth, so it must be something about office components.
(Too tired to troubleshoot at the moment though)
Have read forcing 2000 compatibility option may fix it.. but again its only
a console app (?!).

[Also of note is that it displays only ANSI instrument names, unlike
the bars that appear in the screenshot as well; it's a tidy app otherwise
.. if only I could use Dosbox to drive emulated MT32]

Crashing on exit seems odd. I've never had that happen to me. I've developed it on 64 bit windows XP but recently switched over to Vista x64 bit and it runs fine there too.

I don't think it's related to that link you posted. It looks more like I tried to dereference null somewhere along the way.

All the --mt32 option does is load the mt32.txt file which contains the MT32 instrument names (as opposed to the default general midi names in gm.txt)

I don't know what you mean by the ANSI instrument names and bars though? are the bars not in colour?

Ah, so that might be a hint; there are only instrument names the rest (bars/lines etc) do not appear (it expands to a largish black mostly
unused window).
[Tested on XP-SP2, .NET 1, 1.1 and 2]

taiken7 wrote:

Ah, so that might be a hint; there are only instrument names the rest (bars/lines etc) do not appear (it expands to a largish black mostly
unused window).
[Tested on XP-SP2, .NET 1, 1.1 and 2]

Hmm, interesting. I still can't replicate the crash.
I might try a few other systems if i can get the chance.

Has anyone else had those problems?