On Saturday 06 June 2009 14:22 (CEST), LM wrote: > I couldn't help thinking Timidity++ would be great for playing midi and mod > files. It works even without a sound card and has pdcurses and ncurses > interfaces. Has anyone had any luck porting Timidity++ to DOS?
On the other hand, there is a player which does a similar job (ie plays MIDI files using on-disk instruments, without needing a MIDI-aware soundcard) - search for "OpenCubic Player" ;-) You'll need also GUS instruments to make it work with MIDI (I can provide you GUS files if you won't be able to find them). > I have a ton of old BASIC programs. Any recommendations on a good BASIC > interpreter? I've tried some Open Source ones in the past on other > platforms, but they didn't seem to fully support all the commands the > programs would need to run. FreeBASIC. Definitely. > Is there a good way to slow down old DOS games like pinball? I remember > trying programs like whoa on years ago and they didn't seem to work well for > what I needed. Try FDAPM, or search for slowdos. > Is there a PNG viewer for FreeDOS? I tried an old copy of Pictview and it > seems to work well on most graphics types but lacked PNG support. Personally, I am using the wonderful "Sea DOS Viewer". It is shreware software (not free), sorry. > One last question. Is there a good forum or mailing list for discussing > porting/compiling Open Source applications to DOS? Sure. You just posted to such mailing list ;-) Best regards, Mateusz Viste -- You'll find my public OpenPGP key at http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/pub_key
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