Short: MIDI device for Exult and AmigaOS Author: Rüdiger Hanke Uploader: aminet aminet net Type: mus/midi Version: 1.05 Architecture: m68k-amigaos; ppc-warpup [ 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