Hi Folks, Michael L. Dawley wrote: > >However, when I tried to play some of the midi files, Arachne > >could not do so. > > I don't know about sbbasic.exe but Creative have an *extremly* good DOS > MIDI program called play.exe perhaps it came along? > The reason why I think it's "*extremly* good" is because it is the ONLY > MIDI program (for DOS) that works on any of my computers. Now if I had a > non-standard card (some "noname", GUS, etc.) then I wouldn't complain. But > I only have standard SB16 cards and still none of the other programs work > (and I really really would like to get some of them to work since my sister > keeps bothering me about the fact that she wants a Kareoke program that's > freeware (none such exist for Windows)). > //Bernie > http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ... > I have a SB16. I am also seriously into MIDIs, as a sequencer (see my web site). I have play.exe and will happily zip and send on request. You will need the other bits and pieces tho', from Creative, to set the card to fire under DOS and Windows. I can invoke it from Arachne, just by editing mime.cfg as suggested by others. For those that have forgotten, there is also a MIDI player APM for download (from John P Tomany). Unfortunately for me, it needs more memory than I can spare, but it should be OK for those without as much overhead as me. That is the "cndmidi" that was refered to in another post. But unless you have a daughter MIDI card inserted into your SB16, the MIDIs will sound pretty artificial. Regrettable, for most of us impoverished musician types, at least Win 3.1 is needed to get any real pleasure from MIDIs, the Windows MIDI mapper/patches are what makes the difference for me. And, YES Bernie, there is a Karioki player for Win 3.1 and 95/98. A GOOD one, actually, that doesn't need the _HUGE_ GUS patches. It is called: SJGPlay for Windows. Comes as both 16 and 32 bit versions from Steve J Gray, [EMAIL PROTECTED] , and downloadable from his site at: http://www.ryerson.ca/~sgray along with a lot of other stuff he has written. The version of SJGPlay that I have - v0.46 - is beta and FREEWARE. I have not checked out if there are any newer versions recently. It will play MIDI, Karioki, and most other multimedia files for which you have windows drivers installed, e.g. AVI, MOV, QT, MPEG, FLI etc.. and supports play lists. And talk about configurable !!!! You may gather it is one of my all-time favourite Windows programs. Note: The SJGPlayer for DOS is just a CD player, also freeware. This can be called from within Arachne using an .OOK. I have a whole .HTM page (actually the default Home Page) from which I call most of my DOS applications (via .OOK) and even Windows 3.1 - isn't Arachne a versatile thing ! Regards, Ron Clarke Ron Clarke http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/music.html -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
