Bars & Pipes WinUAE

[golem]

My second A1200 is constantly being flaky so I want to try running Bars & Pipes through WinUAE instead. I've read many of ral-clans posts on the internet with his rich experience but some of these posts maybe quite old now. Can anyone give pointers towards a functional setup? I want to hopefully sync to my working Amiga through a Class compliant USB MIDI device on Windows 7.

[VingtTrois]

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/barsnpipes/

[golem]

Thanks.

[Ral-Clan]

As you've read it works great for me with version B&P v1.29 but you'll get the latest discussion by joining the Yahoo group.  I'm using a PCI card based MIDI interface but I think Alfred Faust, the original "new" programmer, was using a USB MIDI interface and so are some others.

[golem]

Thanks for sharing your experience Ral. I will start by trying 1.29 that Alfred fixed with you.

[Matt_H]

I think WinUAE can pass a MIDI box detected under Windows to the emulation as a CAMD device on the serial port - works better than a real Amiga!

[golem]

Tested 1.29 and it works great with my Evolution 1X1 USB MIDI device. Like you say it will pass through to the MIDI of the laptop which is cool. Only showstopper for me is the MIDI sync; although the normal MIDI in and out don't work with MIDI sync the CAMD MIDI tools do but seemingly not song position pointer. Can't quite retire the Amiga yet...