https://github.com/indigoparadox/mindi

Extremely minimal MIDI library and beepy DOS MIDI player.
https://github.com/indigoparadox/mindi

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Extremely minimal MIDI library and beepy DOS MIDI player.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/indigoparadox/mindi
• Owner: indigoparadox
• License: lgpl-3.0
• Created: 2019-08-28T10:51:37.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-06-13T00:39:26.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-05T15:10:28.071Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: dos, library, midi, music, pc-speaker
• Language: C
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• Size: 253 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# mindi

Extremely minimal MIDI library, for old or otherwise resource-limited systems.

Currently a work in progress and very volatile.

## Dependencies

- Be sure to check out submodules! maug and mbeep are required for building.

- Check framework, for running tests: `sudo apt install check`

- ALSA development libraries for beep playback on Linux (not required for DOS, see below): `sudo apt install libasound2-dev`

## DOS MIDI Player

(WARNING: Experimental, extremely funny-sounding. Needs work! If you try it right now on a real machine, you will probably have to reboot that machine!)

midibeep is a simple one-track MIDI player that can be cross-compiled for DOS from a modern UNIX-like system. Given a type 1 MIDI file and a track number, it will attempt to beep out that track on the PC speaker. It requires the OpenWatcom compiler to compile.

- Ensure that `wcc` and `wcl` are in your PATH.

- Ensure that the `WATCOM` environment variable is set to your watcom installation directory (e.g. `/opt/watcom`).

- Ensure that the `INCLUDE` environment variable is set to the `h` subdirectory of your watcom installation directory (e.g. `/opt/watcom/h`).

- Execute `make midibeep.exe` in the project root.

## References

- https://web.archive.org/web/20140216225718/http://www.sonicspot.com/guide/midifiles.html

- https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~craig/articles/linuxmidi/misc/essenmidi.html

- http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~ich/classes/mumt306/StandardMIDIfileformat.html#BM3\_1

- https://www.recordingblogs.com/wiki/musical-instrument-digital-interface-midi

Documentation available at: https://indigoparadox.github.io/mindi/