Seriously, color me COMPLETELY shocked.
I was using the Zip Drive on my SE/30 to rescue all of the data that have been trapped on some zip disks I have since the late 90s and in the process I came across my old MIDI and MOD/S3M music collection.
I haven't yet succeeded in finding a good MOD player for Mac (SoundPlayer68k crashes every time I run it and MODPlayer needs a 16 color screen...).
But I just had the most delightful experience trying to play a MIDI file.
First, I threw it into quicktime player to see if it'd play and...no it wouldn't. Maybe if I went and set the file creator type properly?
But some searches led me to Arnold's MIDI Player. Grabbed it from the garden, threw it on my AFP share and fired it up.
Sadly... when launching it, it informed me there was a missing quicktime component (Quicktime Music Note Allocator?!? Who names these things?). Humorously it informed me that if I have a dialup internet connection, it could go grab it from the Apple website for me. Well I have an ethernet connection through my RaSCSI so let's laugh at how this poor thing thinks it still has software support available.
And then this happened:
Seriously. My Mac SE/30 just downloaded and installed a software update from the internet in 2022 with just me clicking OK and away it went.
DID NOT SEE THAT COMING!
I was using the Zip Drive on my SE/30 to rescue all of the data that have been trapped on some zip disks I have since the late 90s and in the process I came across my old MIDI and MOD/S3M music collection.
I haven't yet succeeded in finding a good MOD player for Mac (SoundPlayer68k crashes every time I run it and MODPlayer needs a 16 color screen...).
But I just had the most delightful experience trying to play a MIDI file.
First, I threw it into quicktime player to see if it'd play and...no it wouldn't. Maybe if I went and set the file creator type properly?
But some searches led me to Arnold's MIDI Player. Grabbed it from the garden, threw it on my AFP share and fired it up.
Sadly... when launching it, it informed me there was a missing quicktime component (Quicktime Music Note Allocator?!? Who names these things?). Humorously it informed me that if I have a dialup internet connection, it could go grab it from the Apple website for me. Well I have an ethernet connection through my RaSCSI so let's laugh at how this poor thing thinks it still has software support available.
And then this happened:
Seriously. My Mac SE/30 just downloaded and installed a software update from the internet in 2022 with just me clicking OK and away it went.
DID NOT SEE THAT COMING!