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From: dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz (Dale Gold)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Setting serial port's baud rate for midi on the Amiga
Message-ID: <5166.tnews@basso.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 7 Dec 90 18:20:09 GMT
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Quoted from - e85rw@efd.lth.se (Ricard Wolf):
> In article <58485@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) writes:
> ...
> >	You can't do it from Basic, the performance
> >	requirements are way outside of what it
> >	can do. Also you need to set some serial
> >	device parameters of which only a small
> >	subset can be manipulated from Basic.
> >
> Of course Basic would be too slow to read data, but what he wanted to 
> do was send data only.
> -- 
I'm not sure what the original poster was trying to do, but I'm pretty 
sure that Bill Barton's midi.library comes with some examples of using 
AmigaBasic & MIDI. It was on a Fish disk awhile back. I wonder if using 
a Basic compiler would be able to make enough improvement in the speed
to to any good.  
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