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SSH IT ZOMBIE
Apr 19, 2003
No more blinkies! Yay!
College Slice
Been working on a thing.
http://cookwithkevin.com/midi/


It's a 486 DX2 66 from Circa 1994, HP Vectra VE 4/66 running DOS. Hooked it up to the internet via a parallel port Ethernet adapter.

It's got a Sound Blaster 16 clone by Aztech and a Roland SC-55


And it's available for you to play MIDIs on. Real MIDIs. The kind your parents played when they were young, when disk space was expensive.

ITT post your favorite MIDIs.


Edit:
Basically, this thing is only slightly tested and mostly done as a joke as a weekend project. If it's stable, and finds use, will be making it more permanent.

Feature requests\some planned features
  • REQ: MOD file support - I'll probably add it tomorrow or this weekend.
  • REQ: Webcam - Raspberry PI ordered, going to take a bit, maybe a week.
  • REQ: File organizing - Planning on adding some sort of tag feature, and search, sometime in the future
  • MP3 Exporting or something - Export synthed files for download, sometime in the future
  • Maybe a HTML5\Javascript interface, though that kinda defeats the purpose.
  • Some sort of commenting thing

poo poo I want to do but can't really in the current state
  • Voting - Like\skip - Action will happen based on percentage of votes happening over a period of time. DOS doesn't really multitask. I can do it in Win 3.1 or 98, move away from qbasic and maybe to cscript

SSH IT ZOMBIE fucked around with this message at 04:54 on May 15, 2015

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casual beep
Mar 28, 2015

What am I gonna run around like some teeny bopper somewhere for someone elses money? I make the money man, I roll the nickels. The game is mine. I deal the cards
i would give all the bitches my pager numbers at parties and poo poo and that poo poo'd make them cream up real good

tetsuo
May 12, 2001

I am a shaman, magician
i absolutely do not want to cook with kevin

TacMan
Aug 8, 2002

Vert used Hyperbeam,
It's super effective!


:steam: El Mole :steam:
These are some fine and fresh beeps AND boops, thank you.

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
5

-Misfit-
Apr 20, 2005

I come in the name of Jesus Christ by the power of the holy spirit Bitch!
soulful midi music

wane tendo
Mar 19, 2005

Buglord
http://www.free-midi.org/midi1/a/a_ha-take_on_me.mid

Flo Cytometer
Apr 20, 2015

by Ralp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdcE2o2FRDg

GUS > Roland :colbert:

psyopmonkey
Nov 15, 2008

by Lowtax

Novo
May 13, 2003

Stercorem pro cerebro habes
Soiled Meat
midi is still a thing; let us know when you get it playing .mod files and i'll upload you some space debris

Topographic Nap
Apr 22, 2007

you need a midi organizer

SSH IT ZOMBIE
Apr 19, 2003
No more blinkies! Yay!
College Slice

Novo posted:

midi is still a thing; let us know when you get it playing .mod files and i'll upload you some space debris

:smug: That was my :spergin: project from a few years back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKYy4LnO-uw
Would nearly peg the server out at 100%

Anyway, maybe. It would take probably about 10 minutes but I'd have to stop the site to bust open qbasic.

SSH IT ZOMBIE fucked around with this message at 04:12 on May 15, 2015

a bay
Oct 14, 2014

by Lowtax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSHyukMEeYs

Flo Cytometer
Apr 20, 2015

by Ralp

Novo posted:

midi is still a thing; let us know when you get it playing .mod files and i'll upload you some space debris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTtjvbAvsys

mod.elysium :colbert:

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
op you're a huge nerd in a rare and beautiful good way and it's great and i love it
you do you

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



1992 was not one of my favorite years - you can keep it.

SSH IT ZOMBIE
Apr 19, 2003
No more blinkies! Yay!
College Slice
Thanks whoever sent Monkey Island, poo poo owns.

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
this is cool

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
i like the dingdong song

wane tendo
Mar 19, 2005

Buglord
http://midishrine.com/midi/53941.mid

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx
town.mid

psyopmonkey
Nov 15, 2008

by Lowtax

That was interesting.

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)
Do you have more specs on the hardware in that computer?
I am imagining that you would want 32 megs of RAM, which is on the very high end for a 486. It might just be 16, though?

SSH IT ZOMBIE
Apr 19, 2003
No more blinkies! Yay!
College Slice

glowing-fish posted:

Do you have more specs on the hardware in that computer?
I am imagining that you would want 32 megs of RAM, which is on the very high end for a 486. It might just be 16, though?

Maxed out at 64. :parrot:
Also a 8GB CF card and a SIIG ISA Fast EIDE to support disks > 500 megs or whatever.

Conventional memory is a concern, kept running out for a while till I forced everything to high memory. Too many loving TSRs.

wane tendo
Mar 19, 2005

Buglord
drat... sounds good

:yum:

Explosive Tampons
Jul 9, 2014

Your days are gone!!!
A good goon project. Dude this is great, please add webcam streaming whenever possible tia

Digital Fingers
Sep 2, 2012

Is this pretty cool although I wish it handled file sizes larger then 2 mb

E: 2mbs wasn't enough b/c I was converting songs into midi using a website, this makes them sound like awful garbage and SSH IT ZOMBIE's computer won't make them sound any better.

Digital Fingers fucked around with this message at 06:42 on May 15, 2015

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
oh my god aqualung is so long

Holy John
Apr 21, 2008
don't lie you loved every second of it

wane tendo
Mar 19, 2005

Buglord

Cubone posted:

oh my god aqualung is so long

Phobic Nest
Oct 2, 2013

You Are My Sunshine
forest.mid

I'm a little scared that I guessed correctly what it would be.

SSH IT ZOMBIE
Apr 19, 2003
No more blinkies! Yay!
College Slice
I don't understand what is playing, is it breaking the computer? Do I need to skip it?

Flo Cytometer
Apr 20, 2015

by Ralp

SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:

Conventional memory is a concern, kept running out for a while till I forced everything to high memory. Too many loving TSRs.

Ya know, you could just throw QEMM on it and use some video RAM for DOS.

Also, if you can compile your QBASIC vs running it via the interpreter, you can easily reclaim base memory by abusing SPAWNO (check URL, its via Ralf Brown).

:psyduck: oh gently caress now you've got me :spergin:

E: I vaguely recall the "DOLLERS" guy about some video card thing in SH/SC years ago, but now I don't exactly know why. :corsair:

Flo Cytometer fucked around with this message at 05:01 on May 15, 2015

wane tendo
Mar 19, 2005

Buglord

Phobic Nest posted:

forest.mid

I'm a little scared that I guessed correctly what it would be.

lol it sounds all hosed up

ROFLburger
Jan 12, 2006
my girl owned, but some loser put on video game music so im out

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)
Its interesting to see what songs come across the best in Midi.

"My Girl" sounds great. Even on midi, the melody's message comes through.

I imagine most pop music wouldn't fare as well.

SSH IT ZOMBIE
Apr 19, 2003
No more blinkies! Yay!
College Slice
drat I just noticed Pussycat is using OPL3 that sounds really good it's not even the Roland

Smiling Mandrill
Jan 19, 2015

It was a better time.

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
lol@the gorillaz song

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Digital Fingers
Sep 2, 2012

op should pm hotep to sticky this threadfor a week or something, it's neat and fun but I don't think there's enough to discuss to keep it from falling into oblivion

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