Today, for the first time, I got midi sound out of dosemu (1.1.99)! By trial & error -- because I know practically nothing about midi.
My soundcard (ens1371 chip) does not have a hardware midi synthesizer. I have sound in the kernel (2.4.20) by means of CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y Now if I do timidity -ir 3 & as root, and then as user midid -p3 ~/.dosemu/run/dosemu-midi & I can produce midi sounds from dosemu, playing .mid files through midi-player programs for DOS, like GSPLAY. I have not yet found a *game* that can make midi music in this way. In the above commands, '3' can be any number it seems; but it must be the same in both commands. Questions: -- is this the 'right' way? Or is there a simpler way? -- is there a correct value for the 'magic number' (3 in the example above)? -- the sound is a bit weird: a bit too slow, and the tempo is somehow "wobbly" (the notes don�t seem to arrive always exactly at the correct time). Anyway it sounds much 'snappier' if I just say timidity [somefile].mid outside dosemu. Also, if I stop gsplay, there is some 'afterburst' of music (a few notes). Is this normal? Regards, Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
