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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MIDI in BASIC?
Message-ID: <1055@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 88 02:55:10 GMT
References: <4040001@hpesrgd.HP.COM>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Use the aux.device and ABasiC


Having bought my Amiga way back in 1985 :-), it came with ver 1.0
workbench and ABasiC interpreter from MetaComCo.  ABasiC isn't
brain dead about the serial port the way Microsoft Amigabasic is.
You can set up to the necessary 31.25 KBaud in preferences, and
ABasiC will take it.  You do need to get the aux.device (from
the Usenet archives), though as the normal serial.device blocks I/O
in 400 byte chunks.  MetaComCo also sells an aux.device with one of
their toolkits.

I wrote a few little hacks in ABasiC for my FB-01 and DX7s in
ABasiC.  It works.

--Bill