Talk:MUS

"The later Vanilla Doom versions added support for MIDI files, which meant WAD authors no longer needed to convert MIDI files to MUS." Can anyone verify that older vanilla doom versions are not capable of playing midi-files? And if so, at which version was the midi capability added? Anders A


 * I was under the impression that no vanilla doom supported midi files directly. Unfortunately, poking around to confirm this didn't find me much.  Because the original sound code was gutted for the source release, looking at linuxdoom-1.10 or another source port probably wouldn't help much, and I'm not very familiar with the sound code layout anyway.  But, I did notice that the original BOOM documentation mentions midi support under "Wad extensions in BOOM phase I", and BOOMEDIT.WAD also mentions the ability to use midis directly as a boom feature, which suggests that it was not available vanilla.  Hopefully someone else knows more. 71.58.109.233 02:36, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * no vanilla doom supported midi files directly  There was a recent forum thread about this at Doomworld, believe it or not.  I'll see if I can find it.    Ryan W 03:44, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * This isn't the one I remember reading, but it (and the links people posted) appear to address the issue.   Ryan W 04:22, 17 September 2007 (UTC)


 * My own experimentation has shown that it is possible to put MID files into Vanilla Doom directly. However, it only works on certain files; some files don't play.  I haven't been able to determine what the exact criteria is for what works and what doesn't, except that large files won't play. Fraggle 07:51, 18 September 2007 (UTC)