Re: Arggh, midi is driving me nuts.

["Mark J. Small" <msmall@eastlink.ca>]

On June 11, 2005 04:25 pm, you wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Mark J. Small wrote:
> > I have tried linking from ~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi
> > to /dev/midi, /dev/amidi, /dev/snd/midiC0D0,1,2,3.
>
> Here's what can get you on track.
> Remove the dosemu-midi entirely
> and play some midi from under
> dosemu. It will create the new
> dosemu-midi, just a regular file,
> and it should contain the raw midi
> data. If it does - on dosemu side
> everything is fine.
> Then do something like
> cat dosemu-midi >/dev/midi
> It will write the recorded midi
> data to your device and you should
> hear some noice. If the noice is
> there, everything is allright.

Thanks for the reply.

I think I've got it figured out now.  My problem was that I did most of my
troubleshooting using the tie fighter installer.  It doesn't seem to work
well with doesmu's midi stuff.  When I tried to test the midi settings within
the tie fighter installer, the dosemu-midi file was created but was size
zero.  When I tried to play with megamid, things worked as you said.

Now a have a symlink from dosemu-midi to /dev/amidi, and megamid will play
midi files happily from within dosemu.

I guess Tie Fighter does something that is incompatable with dosemu's midi
support.

Digital sound is pretty choppy too when I play the game unless I set the
resolution to 320x240.  I guess an Athlon XP 2000 can't quite emulate an
early Pentium.  Doh.

Mark


Mark