Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 23:28:14 +1000 (EST)
From: Nathan Fraser <ndf AT ecr DOT mu DOT oz DOT au>
Reply-To: Nathan Fraser <ndf AT ecr DOT mu DOT oz DOT au>
To: crough45 AT amc DOT de, Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: MIDI and DJGPP input (re: Allegro / MPU401 MIDI input)
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Hi, I too am trying to use the MPU401 and dos to read incoming
data. So far I have got it to sometimes read sysex but it almost
always crashes the computer. I am trying to get a device that 
will display dicky animations in time and in response to a 
pre-sequenced midi signal. So far I have fpound lots of midi resources
(see below) but all of them are based around assembly code
that is not compatible with the GNU 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...

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

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

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

and

http://www.midiweb.com/programming/files/mpusr2.zip

I have tried using both but they have more errors than I can understand
and the interrupt declarations are 747's (ie Waaaaaaaaay overhead)


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nath