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Re: mockingboard

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On Monday, September 10, 2012 12:01:47 AM UTC-7, mjm...@aol.com wrote:
> Check the disk that shipped with the Mockingboard for the object code. It's
> 
> quite short, so disassembly should be straightforward. 

OK, I found it.  Strange they would make the player interrupt driven, and not make the demo show this.  It just waits for a key, stops music, and returns to the menu.  If you delete some of the lines is the MUSIC program, it will continue playing music in the background at the ] prompt

> 
> > 2)how to convert MIDI tunes to the format the driver expects?  I think
> 
> > the only person who has midi conversion experience is MJM??
> 
> > 
> 
> > Midi songs that I want to play will be reduced to the # of voices that
> 
> > the MB supports, using an editor on the PC.
> 
> My MIDI converter currently outputs N separate streams, one for each
> oscillator. Each note or rest is represented as a byte for the note or rest
> followed by a two-byte duration to the next action for the oscillator. For
> convenience, the separate oscillator streams are concatenated into a single
> binary file. 

Ok, I will see about getting it to work today.

Rich

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