Re: [hatari-users] removal of --midi-in and --midi-out options

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

When Hatari is built with PortMidi, MIDI devices are defined by port 
names in the GUI (and config file).  PortMidi expects data for those 
devices to be real MIDI data!

Only when Hatari is compiled *without* PortMidi, there are --midi-in and 
--midi-out device file options (and Hatari does not care what data is 
transferred through them).

Currently Hatari does not support both at the same time, it needs to be 
built separately for each use-case.  As real MIDI device use-case is 
much more common, releases are built with PortMidi for Mac.


	- Eero

On 28.7.2023 2.20, eric wrote:
> First of all, thanks for hatari, it is a wonderful piece of software.
>
> The ability to run a .prg file directly, as well as MIDI support, are 
> very useful features to help debug.
>
> I noticed that these 2 options disappeared between hatari v2.3.1 and v2.4.1
>
> --midi-in
>
> --midi-out
>
> I know I can chose real MIDI devices as input or output using the GUI, 
> but previously I was able to communicate between hatari and a specific 
> software, just using files
>
> (I was using --midi-in /tmp/midiIN --midi-out /tmp/midiOUT)
>
> Now with newer versions I found no way of doing this.
>
> Is there a workaround/a hack that I could use ?
>
> Thank you
>
> Eric
>
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