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On April 23, 2005 10:03 am, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 16:51 +0100, Owen Rudge wrote:
> > > Any info on what RMI actually is?
> >
> > It's a RIFF-based MIDI format, a few sample RMI used to be shipped with
> > Windows 9x in the WINDOWS\Media dir.
>
> Hm, RIFF also doesn't tell me anything. But the change seems quite
> simple.. so maybe it would benefit Allegro to support it. In which case,
> it should be supported by load_midi, not by an extra function.
>
RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format) is the format MS uses for nearly
everything, wav, avi, asf, etc. Based on the IFF (EA Interchange File Format)
format. Its a chunk based format, with support for nesting chunks.
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