README.DEC

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Note: These modifications are now integrated into the sources, so you
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Timidity-0.2h port to DEC OSF/1 with MMS support
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This was tested on a DEC alpha 250 4/266.  At the default sampling
rate of 32kHz an occasional break in playing could be detected under
CPU load of around 3.0  Try using lower sampling rate or using some of
the hacks in config.h if you have a slow and/or busy machine. The main
code for DEC audio resides in dec_audio.c and currently only supports
device ID 0, since that's the only device we have in our alpha.  If you
have more than one device you should be able to use them by simply
altering the device ID in dec_audio.c 

If you're not getting this from the standard distribution of timidity,
just grab the file timidity-0.2h-DEC.tar.gz or timidity-0.2h-DEC.tar.Z
and untar it in the directory that contains the timidity-02h directory.
This would untar the files into the timidity-02h directory, replacing
the files config.h and output.c and adding the files Makefile.DEC and
dec_audio.c  You can then copy Makefile.DEC to Makefile and compile
timidity with "make" (you may want to edit the Makefile and config.h)

BTW Timidity works great as a MIDI-"viewer" for WWW browsers.  Just add

	audio/midi; timidity1 %s >/dev/null 2>&1

to your .mailcap file and you can click and play MIDI files on the net!
Try e.g. the Classical MIDI Archive:

	http://www.prs.net/midi.html

Thanks Tuukka for a great program!!


Chi Ming HUNG <cmhung@insti.physics.sunysb.edu>