Re: [linux-audio-user] XSteem fun

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] XSteem fun
From: Mel Steinberg (saxofon_AT_pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 11:09:52 EEST


It's BIG fun!

/mel

Dave Phillips wrote:

>Greetings:
>
> I've just spent a very amusing half-hour playing with XSteem, the X
>window version of the Steem Engine Atari ST emulator. I had read that it
>now supported MIDI I/O via /dev/midi so I gave it a shot with a
>(legally!) downloaded version of M (anyone remember M?). Wow, it worked
>! It's a little strange to figure out, but once I had it configured
>properly its performance was about as good as the old M/pc, Voyetra's
>version of M for Windows 2.0 (!).
>
> Incidentally, I was once able to run M/pc under DOSemu, but I've been
>unable to figure how to set up the latest versions of DOSemu to get M/pc
>to open at all. When it did work it was pretty impressive: Voyetra did a
>good job with M/pc, giving it nice full-screen color display.
>
> Weird, what you can do with Linux... ;-)
>
> Btw, if you're interested in XSteem you can check it out here:
>
> http://www.blimey.strayduck.com/
>
> Next up: checking out the latest Squeak Smalltalk 80 environment (with
>interesting sound support)...
>
>Best regards,
>
>== Dave Phillips
>
> The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
> The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org
>


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