[ Note from uploader: This is an ooold release from September 2001. Uploaded ]
[ to Aminet to preserve it and because it is required by game/role/Exult.lha. ]
AMidi is an AmigaOS device that can play MIDI music on an easily extensible
number of target devices. So you can choose whether you want to emulate a
MIDI synthesizer in software, or if you're lucky enough to have external MIDI
hardware, use it and save valuable CPU time.
It was mainly written to provide MIDI support for games such as Exult, which
is the first Amiga program to support AMidi, but it may well be used to provide
music support for webbrowsers or you can use it as a standalone MIDI player
since the quality of the software driver is superior to all software MIDI
players currently available for the Amiga.
Playing MIDI music from an Amiga program, previously considered difficult if
not almost impossible on the Amiga (Simon the Sorcerer II lacked MIDI support
for this very reason) is now a breeze. The MIDI support for Exult consists of
only about 80 lines of program code, most of which were copied-and-pasted from
an AMidi test source.
AMidi comes with its own preferences program (requires OS3.5, a configuration
file with settings suitable for most purposes is included for those without
OS3.5), as well as the tiny (about 6 kByte) PlayMIDI tool to play MIDI tunes
from shell or Workbench through AMidi (proper default icons and filetype for
Workbench/DOpus5 are included). Then, there's the Simon II Jukebox, a tiny
Shell tool that allows Simon II owners to listen to all 171 (sic!) MIDI tunes
of the game and hear what you've missed all the time in the game.
Rüdiger Hanke, September 2001
tomjoad@muenster.de
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