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Short:SMF0+1 with AREXX - support package
Author:MANY - and thanx to all of you, dudes ;)
Uploader:eliot sci muni cz (Filip "Eli0t" Oscadal)
Type:mus/midi
Architecture:m68k-amigaos
Date:1996-06-02
Download:http://aminet.net/mus/midi/ARM-supp.lha - View contents
Readme:http://aminet.net/mus/midi/ARM-supp.readme
Downloads:5382

ARM-play (23.05.1996 - Czech Republic, Europe)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


Purpose of this pack:
=====================

It  will  allow you to play MIDI files type 0 and 1 in an easy way ;)
AREXX  support, all libraries and binaries included.  MIDI archive of
nice MIDI files available (all files taken out of the total amount of
over  2500 SMF?s downloaded from the InterNET - sorted in 2 months on
Amiga 500+, 2MB CHIP, 4MB FAST, MIDI, YAMAHA TG-100)


Background:
===========

    In  the  late March 1996 I've downloaded over 2500 midifiles from
different  InterNET sites by night.  It took me 2 months to transport
the  files  on  floppies to my home computer - Amiga 500+.  I was not
able   to   listen  to  the  files  at  work  (working  as  a  system
administrator   at   WWW.SCI.MUNI.CZ),   although   working   on  SGI
workstations.   Back home with a little funny thing - YAMAHA TG-100 -
I went through all the files, listened carefully and now you are able
to  download  the best MIDI pack available now - not the biggest, but
trully most of the songs are quite good, no SHITs!  ;) So the archive
was born.  First I used a MIDIPlay by !"#$% ;), but it didn't respond
to  all  its  configuration  files,  tooltypes  and  much  more  very
FRIENDLY.  So the only usable thing left "tinymidiplay".

    My  old  script is included in the package.  The new one was born
when  I've  downloaded the TRITON pack (thanx!) and learned the facts
about  it  in  some  10  hours ;) The utility is still only REXX and
nothing  more, but anybody can easily modify it to fit his needs (not
like  buggy  C proggies).  On non-accelerated Amigas it may appear to
be a bit slow but in fact, decrunching is MUCH MUCH slower ;)

    Complete  ARM-play  archive  is also on Aminet as the file called
"ARM-play.lha".  You'll need that file to install FULL archive, but I
have  packed all the libraries and support files into THIS package to
allow  easy  upgrading  by  changing  the main "ARM-play.lha" archive
only.

    As I am not granted  the permission to distribute "tinymidiplay",
you can find an archive of this on the HP or on Aminet - latest:

                    /mus/midi/midiplay265b.lha


Disclaimer:
===========

I  can  NOT  guarantee  anything  else  that  this pack will probably
succesfully  play  MIDI  files on your Amiga.  Please report bugs and
bugfixes ;) to my e-mail account:  eliot at sci.muni.cz. Thanx!


Caution:
========

The  MIDI  files  may be replayed on any computer able to play SMF?s.
(PC? MAC?)


Requirements:
=============

OS 2.0+ (tested on OS3.0 [39.106]), MIDI interface, GM expander or keyboard
(I suggest something like YAMAHA TG-100 .. TG-500, MU-80 etc. - tested on
my TG-100 and all of the tunes are quite nice on my A500+), running WorkBench
and -> AREXX is a MUST, 'fcourse ;)



Installation:
=============

Copy all the following files (in the case you haven't got them already):

REXXC/RX & REXXC/RXNIL     - standard Commodore RX command plus a "niled"
                             version (doesn't produce ANY output)

C/TINYMIDIPLAY             - utility (fast and small) to play SMF0 & 1 files
                             (not included)

LIBS/#?                    - all the required libraries (maybe more...)
                             (I include these as it may be hard for newbies
                              to build the complete system)

REXX/#?                    - AREXX scripts by ME + icon by Jofa/Vectors
                             (thanx dude, will we meet by beer sometimes?)


"MIDIPLAY" is the old REXX controller - simple but works (may have bugs?)

"lowercase.rexx"  is  usefull - have ya ever dreamed to simply change
as  many filenames as you like to lowercase?  This will do the
dirty job for you in a sec...

"ARM-play" is the main TRITON REXX proggy - complex and nice looking
(I've included all the latest TRITON REXX libraries - should be complete)
                 --- HINT: download ARM-play.lha ---

CAUTION: some of the libraries may be OS3.x specific - be warned, 2.x users!



Usage:
======

midiplay
++++++++

Make  sure  you  have installed all the required files.  Assign MIDI:
to  the  directory  your  SMF?s  reside.  Make sure NO other programs
(like  OctaMED), that use serial port directly, are active (modem and
terminal programs also, right?).  Make also sure the STOP SMF0 called
"000-zero" is in place.

Doubleclick  a  MIDIPLAY  icon  to  bring  up a requester (ReqTools),
select  tunes  to  play  -  these  will  be played once in a randomly
selected  order.  You can change the default tool to "RX", so you can
watch the name of a file being played.

This script is also able to co-operate with diskmanagers like FileMaster
(and many others, I think) in the way:

1) run it without parameter -> if playing single file, will stop it ;)
2) run it without parameter -> if not playing, will bring up a requester
3) run it with a parameter  -> will load the file and play (previous play
                               is terminated by the player automatically)

ARM-play
++++++++

This one comes with a complete GUI - make sure your files are located
somewhere and you have installed TRITON ;) Feel free to modify it and
if  you  come with something special, let me know.  You can also call
it  with  an argument that will be played (but no GUI opens).  Report
bugs, bugreports, jokes or just whether you like it or no ;)


Hints:
======

Pack  all  the MIDI files with SHRI compressor (included).  I reached
the  best  results with this one (thanx to author), although it packs
and  depacks for hours ;) (my HD is really small, but if you are free
in space and have non-accelerated Amiga, keep 'em unpacked).



Copyright notice:
=================

This  pack  is brought to you as a FREEWARE.  You are non-exclusively
granted the right to modify the AREXX scripts or write new ones based
on  mine.   You may NOT modify the binaries, libraries and MIDI files
as  these  are COPYRIGHTED material by their specific owners.  I hope
this  is enough to prove myself not being responsible for any damages
or  whatever  ;)  Some  of  the files may be somewhere else stated as
SHAREWARE  !!!   (I  am sure none of these are commercial, RX command
without REXXMAST is useless, though)

I  am  not  a  PROGRAMMER,  but a MUSICIAN - please excuse me for bad
English.  Programming is my hobby, music will be my work hopefully :)

Send me an e-mail if you like this pack ;)          eliot at sci.muni.cz

HOMEPAGE URL: "http://www.sci.muni.cz/~eliot/"

I am sorry if someone misses his name in here, kick my ass instead ;)


InterNET access:
================

This  pack  has its own WWW page located in the Czech Republic on the
Amiga  specific  FTP server (currently the only REAL one and probably
the LAST one).

URL: http://amiga.chemi.muni.cz/amiga/midi/
URL: http://147.251.64.18/amiga/midi/

site may also be accessed via anonymous FTP at ftp://ftp.chemi.muni.cz/

-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

Have fun and make Amiga alive! Greets to my musician and Amiga friends,
especially to Daniel Forro. Big thanx to Urban Mueller for Aminet CD 11.

                     Long live cONTORTIOn!!! ;)

-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

Signed off, peace and love
                                                         Eli0t/cONTORTIOn


Contents of mus/midi/ARM-supp.lha
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drwxr-xr-x 18251/32764       0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 May 28  1996 ARM-play_supportpack/
drwxr-xr-x 18251/32764       0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 May 28  1996 ARM-play_supportpack/c/
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764    4274    7072  60.4% -lh5- eab8 Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/c/xdata
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764    5497    5676  96.8% -lh5- 3668 Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/c/xdataprefs
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764    3433    5760  59.6% -lh5- 5ff4 Feb  6  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/c/xpackit
drwxr-xr-x 18251/32764       0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 May 28  1996 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/
drwxr-xr-x 18251/32764       0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 May 28  1996 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/compressors/
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764    5349    9232  57.9% -lh5- f33d Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/compressors/xpkSHRI.library
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764    1292    1756  73.6% -lh5- f9a2 Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/explode.library
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764    2604    5240  49.7% -lh5- 9630 Feb  6  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/mathieeedoubbas.library
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764    3747    6372  58.8% -lh5- eddf Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/midi.library
-rwxr-xr-x 18251/32764   29766   45156  65.9% -lh5- 4a4c Jan  2  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/reqtools.library
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764    6536   11664  56.0% -lh5- 40e4 Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/rexxreqtools.library
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764    1940    2524  76.9% -lh5- 8c12 Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/rexxsupport.library
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764   24803   33392  74.3% -lh5- 2cd1 Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/rexxsyslib.library
-rwxr-xr-x 18251/32764   27711   53204  52.1% -lh5- 977e Jan  2  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/triton.library
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764   22046   58024  38.0% -lh5- 76a3 Jan 28  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/tritonrexx.library
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764    7507   13456  55.8% -lh5- aaeb Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/libs/xpkmaster.library
drwxr-xr-x 18251/32764       0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 May 28  1996 ARM-play_supportpack/rexx/
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764     171     270  63.3% -lh5- 6183 Feb  6  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/rexx/lowercase.rexx
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764     421     954  44.1% -lh5- c047 Feb  6  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/rexx/midiplay
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764     787    1966  40.0% -lh5- 2fb3 Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/rexx/midiplay.info
drwxr-xr-x 18251/32764       0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 May 28  1996 ARM-play_supportpack/rexxc/
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764     760     968  78.5% -lh5- b554 Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/rexxc/RXNIL
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764     758     968  78.3% -lh5- d116 Jan 27  1980 ARM-play_supportpack/rexxc/rx
drwxr-xr-x 18251/32764       0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 May 28  1996 ARM-play_supportpack/tinymidiplay/
-rw-r--r-- 18251/32764     359     638  56.3% -lh5- 77f2 Oct  2  1995 ARM-play_supportpack/tinymidiplay/tinymidiplay.readme
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 Total        27 files  149761  264292  56.7%            Jun  2  1996

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