From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Midi to Mod
Date:	Sun, 11 May 1997 13:59:15 +0100
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Metroid writes:
>Looks like Midi for Allegro isn't going to work out for the AWE32...
>Maybe it will....who knows

Actually I think it will happen: George Foot is working on an AWE driver
even as we speak, and it is going quite well...

>Anyway, I have all of these cool midi songs (for games) and I have a cousin
>who writes EXCELLENT midi music but I want to port them to MOD file so I
>can use a mod player for Allegro...

Converting from MIDI format into MOD isn't usually very successful.
There are some utilities that do this on x2ftp (can't remember the
filenames, but ptmid rings a bell), but in my experience the output MOD
files sound terrible. You'd be much better off writing MOD files
directly with a tracker program...

>Any good info on this?  Also, what is the BEST mod player for Allegro?

There aren't any 'for Allegro' as such (although Matthew Bowie has
written some tracker routines that sit on top of the Allegro sample
mixing routines, so I think Allegro 3.0 will support MOD music). But
there are several good ones for djgpp which you can use side by side
with Allegro: try MikMod or SBLIB (both of these are on 
http://www.rt66.com/~brennan/djgpp/)


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