Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: An equivalent for Megafont - Linux-audio-user

14 May 2005

On Saturday 14 May 2005, Lee Revell  wrote:
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  > > > [1]
http://www.geocities.com/lstnght2000/
 > > > [2] http://www.geocities.com/lstnght2000/megafont_mutation_src.zip
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  So, are you volunteering to port this to Linux/ALSA?
AFAICT the code is
 "public domain" - the author just abandoned the project in 2001 and
 posted the sources without any license at all.  Presumably you would
 need permission to GPL it. 
No, sorry. I don't have an emu10k1/SBLive, and I have very little spare time
to work in more projects.
And although I've advocated for Pascal, I don't think it is a good idea in
this case to port this code. This program is based on several libraries
property of Creative Labs, and shipped with the windows software for his
SBLive card: SFEDT32.DLL, which allows soundfont edition, and SFMAN32.DLL
which also manages soundfonts, I guess. I've seen more library references in
the code:  MYOKENT.DLL and EAPSMAN.DLL among others. Megafont itself seems to
be a GUI  front-end for the real engines, and a few more. It is a smart
front-end, though, which implements a handy way to manage soundfonts. Think
of it as something like QSynth for FluidSynth.
Regards,
Pedro