From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Allegro Bug!!!
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:08:53 +0000
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Luke Bishop writes:
>       I tracked the bug and found that the file is 15 minutes long 

The length is no problem, subject only to available memory...

>and has 35 channels, which is over the 32 that Allegro allows.  

That is somewhat ridiculous, since there are only 16 possible MIDI
channels!

>I think that the arbitrary limit should be revised, 

That isn't so easy to do, because it would need a change to numerous
conversion utilities and the datafile MIDI format. An much simpler
solution would be to find a MIDI format converter and reduce the
offending file from Type 1 to Type 0...


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