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From: scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: simple multitasking examples
Message-ID: <172@ziggy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 89 03:03:55 GMT
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Reply-To: scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale)
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In article <393@antares.UUCP> pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson) writes:
>In article <14659@cup.portal.com> Thyss@cup.portal.com (Brian TT Fudge) writes:
>>A simple way to show multitasking would be to get some Sonix song.  Play
>>it and use your terminal program to call up your favorite bbs.
>
>This was one of the first things I tried after buying Sonix, unfortunately
>Sonix wanted the serial port (for MIDI, I presume) and so it grabbed it,
>whether or not it was already in use (by whatever comm program I was using
>back then). When I complained about this to Aegis, they said they would get
>back to me. I am still waiting.
>
>Does anyone know if they ever fixed this?

i don't think they've fixed it.  the original "sonix" (musicraft) didn't do
this, and they suggested deleting midi.kybd from the miscellaneous directory.
of course, that didn't seem to change anything.  i have noticed that you can
use a modem at 300 baud and it'll work - maybe the problem is simply the
phenomenal number of interrupts sonix is generating while it operates, and
not that they are actually stealing the serial port.  i'll have to try it
again and pay attention to what happens.  this was over a year ago.
another sonix question - about 6 months ago on bix i asked the aegis
folks (in their conference) if there were any future plans for sonix (ie,
more useful score editing, soundscape module, etc).  they seemed to indicate
that there were ideas, but no plans.  can anyone with bix access see what
the current story is?

>>thyss@cup.portal.com

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