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- From: pete@jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: midi files from amiga to windows
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 19:52:34 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <4f9ts6$9j5@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, SCzar <sczar@aol.com> wrote:
- >I (actually, my brother in law) has an amiga (1000?) w Dr T's sequencing
- >software on it. He has about four years worth of work on it, and needs to
- >convert the Dr.T's files into something which will work on a Windows box.
- >I assume I have 2 problems:
- >
- >1.- Actually mounting the hard drive under a diiferent OS
- This won't be possible...
- >2.- Translating the files into another format.
- This shouldn't be necessary...
-
- To elaborate: as far as I know, there is no OS other than Amiga that
- can handle an Amiga filesystem, so somehow you will have to find another
- way to transfer the files. You could use CrossDOS to put them all onto
- floppies, but I gather that the volume may be rather large for that!
- Perhaps you could set up a serial connection between the machines, and
- use a terminal program -- with zmodem or something -- at each end to
- transfer it all across?
-
- The file format itself should be no trouble. MIDIfiles are standard
- across platforms, and I've had no problems transporting them from my
- Amiga to a windows machine. [Of course the "instruments" it uses when
- you try to play them through a SoundBlaster is another matter...! Ugh.]
-
- Hope that's some help.
- -- Pete --
-
