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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MIDI in BASIC?
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Date: 11 Mar 88 22:49:46 GMT
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In article <4040001@hpesrgd.HP.COM> daq@hpesrgd.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
>     I desperatley want to write a patch editor for my DX7II, but my basic
>problem is I do not want to buy a C compiler.

I suggest you write it in Draco. This is a shareware compiler that was 
distributed on a couple of Fish Disks a while ago. It generates good
code and is low cost. Might be the solution to your problem. The 
guy who wrote it, Chris Gray, is on the net. I've used both the CP/M
version and the Amiga version and think he did a great job. It's also
a great ace in the hole at bragging festivals that go something like :
	"Yeah, I program in C but I also wrote code in Pascal..."
	"Me too, but I write in Modula-2 sometime .."
	 [several iterations later ..]
	"OH YEAH, well I've written code in CDP1802 assembler!"
	"OH YEAH, well I've written code in Draco!"
	"What's Draco?"


--Chuck McManis
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