MAME 0.187 WIP: X68000 Akumajo Dracula MIDI out

[@72muhamad72]

Wonderful continued👍

[@16bap]

Is it possible for MESS to send MIDI output to a real device? Let's say I am running Akumajo Dracula and I have a physical Roland SC-55 connected at my firewire audio interface's MIDI output, can I tell MESS to send the MIDI to my firewire interface which will route the signal to the SC-55? Or am I stuck with sending the signal over network to an iPad with a SC emulator?

[@messdrivers9487]

Yes, you can send MIDI output to any MIDI device your OS recognizes. It just happens MacOS has built-in MIDI over TCP and MIDI over Bluetooth transports. I just played the same tunes on my real SC-55 connected to a USB MIDI interface. If you're using MAME from the command line, add -listmidi to make it show recognized interfaces. In my case on a Linux system: ./mame64 -listmidi MIDI input ports: Midi Through Port-0 (default) FastTrack Pro MIDI 1 MIDI output ports: Midi Through Port-0 FastTrack Pro MIDI 1 (default) My USB interface is the FastTrack Pro, so to play akumajo from our software list with MIDI output, the full command would be: ./mame64 x68000 -exp x68k_midi -midiout "FastTrack Pro MIDI 1" akumajo The "-exp x68k_midi" installs the MIDI card in the "EXPansion slot". Note that the MIDI card is first available in MAME 0.187; you can't use a previous version for that. The QMC2 frontend can help hide all of this; you just pick the MIDI card and output device from drop-downs there :)

[@16bap]

Thank you for the exhaustive explanation! Looks like I'll be hunting a nice SC-55 interface then! :D

[@16bap]

And, btw, thank you for editing and making all the steps even clearer. I've been using QMC2 for quite some time, I'm loving it although I'm more a command line guy ;)