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From: dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Is Spectre going MIDI>?
Message-ID: <4461@druwy.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 89 16:49:56 GMT
References: <8911220809.AA09458@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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in article <8911220809.AA09458@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, UUCJEFF@ECNCDC.BITNET
(jeff beer) says:
> I heard a rumor that David Small is working on making Spectre handle
> MIDI in its Mac emulation.  Is this true?  Can sources close to Small
> confirm this?

	Dave is considering supporting MIDI.  But then he is
considering lots of different things.  There is also a 3rd party who is
writing some MIDI software that works on either the Spectre or a real
Mac.  (Don't remember his name, he talked to Dave about some problems
on Compuserve about a month ago).

	Getting most Mac MIDI software to work may be impossible since
most of the programs go directly to the Mac hardware timers for
interval control.  The STs hardware timers work differently and are at
different addresses than the Mac programs expect.

	I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the Spectre to support
MIDI.  If (a really big if) it does happen it won't be anytime soon.


				Dan Moore
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Denver
				dlm@druwy.ATT.COM