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Date:	Thu, 15 May 1997 15:21:57 +0100
From:	Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
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To:	ndf AT ecr DOT mu DOT oz DOT au
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	MIDI and DJGPP input (re: Allegro / MPU401 MIDI input)

Nathan Fraser wrote:

> So far I have fpound lots of midi resources
> (see below) 

What, out of interest, were you searching on?  I found
that if I narrowed the search so that I only got a
reasonable number of hits then I missed that site totally.

> but all of them are based around assembly code
> that is not compatible with the GNU assembler... 

Indeed - but at least one is Borland format and I still
have my Borland compilers.  I used to be very experienced
with Borland and assembler...

> and as I am a very
> inexperience programmer it is of no use to me. If anyone 
> knows how to decode this into a DJGPP friendly code please 
> help...

I'll certainly try.  This is exactly the sort of thing I've 
been looking for - it's using the MPU401 in intelligent
mode...

> http://www.maxmidi.com/toolkit/

I was dubious about the copyright policies of this one, so I
decided to leave it for now...

> there are also some older libraries but these are written 
> for 286 beasts and are full of old-style c functions.

No problem, that's what protoize is for...

> http://www.midiweb.com/programming/files/mpu401-c.zip
> http://www.midiweb.com/programming/files/mpusr2.zip

Yes, these are the ones...

Thank you, you've earned a credit notice already <g>...

Chris C

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