Hi Stas, On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:43:58PM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > Hello. > > Ryan Underwood wrote: > >>Overall I might be misunderstanding you, but it > >Definitely not :) > Then why do you think it is necessary for > midid to use your server? For overall > completeness? Do it an ALSA-compatible I > would say, and if someone is ever to find > it usefull for midid to talk to your OPL3 > server, that can be easily implemented, but > I don't think it can have any use.
Ok :) > >However, the user might like to use an OPL-emulated chip > >for playing MIDI music from DOS programs that don't > >support OPL for music. > Yes, but what's the use? What is the use?? > Is it because someone have a very limited > internet connection to download the timidity > and all the samples for it? Or too slow CPU > to power up the timidity? But I think MAME > OPL emu eats even more CPU than the timidity > does:) Nah, some people (like me) just like that FM sound. Perhaps I am crazy? :) Probably... > OK, never mind. If you do that lib and you > think it is usefull for midid to be able to > use it - then it is. The lib for direct access comes first priority because we need working FM in dosemu. Currently I have it spawning a synthd and talking to it, but sometimes it doesn't clean up after itself, and the concurrent usage of libsynth by multiple programs is not working. Also I need to hack dosemu to use it, I am testing it only with wolf3d for the moment. -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253 - 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
