janzen@ant.dec.com (Tom 296-5421 LMO2/O23) (07/23/88)
I was not trying play music with Amiga BASIC; I was trying do get and send SYSEX dumps, not well supported by commercial products until recently. Anyway, I give up. Tom Janzen Digital Equipment Corp 111 Locke Drive Marlboro MA 01752
wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (07/28/88)
The Amigados 1.0 (I'm an old-timer) came with a Basic interpreter written by Metacomco. It goes by the name of ABasiC. ABasiC will let you write / read from SER: at whatever baud rate is set up in Preferences. It is most possible to run ABasiC under Amigados 1.2, which does indeed support the MIDI 31.25K baud data rate. The only problem is that input from SER: is blocked in 400 byte chunks before your program gets to see it. You can cure the I/O blocking by getting a character-oriented AUX: device. An AUX: handler (P/D version) was posted to the net around Jan. '88. Sorry, I don't have it here right now. You can also puchase a commercial AUX: device as part of Metacomco's tool kit. I bought the tool kit for $39 at a local dealer. For recent purchasers of Amigas, ABasiC is probably available through Metacomco. ABasiC very much resembles Microsoft MBASIC v 2.05. There isn't any glitzy screen editor -- strictly line oriented like CP/M days. Does do windows / sound, however. It is definitely less guru-prone than AmigaBasic. Bill Division of Basic Medical Sciences Electrical Engineering Laboratory N. E. Ohio Univ.'s College of Med. Rootstown, OH 44272 USA phone: 216-325-2511 Network turmoil is messing up our path these days, so the map is probably out of date. Try this: ...!spl1!neouocm!wtm ...!mandrill!neoucom!wtm ...!allegra!neucom!wtm