#Linux gains more critical #Windows apps: 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball

source: theregister.com/oses/2026/05/1…

It's not only a native port, they also had to do more work to make it 64-bit clean, add native file load and save dialog boxes, #MIDI background #music via #FluidSynth, and a video player powered by #GStreamer – among other things. Currently, they're looking at making a #RaspberryPi version as well.

Who even needs #Microsoft #Windows anymore?

#news #software #linux #software #game #gamer #gaming #foss #floss #freedom #hooray #future #computer #os #porting #port

Linux gains more critical Windows apps ... 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball

Further demonstrating its role as industry default OS the versatility of modern porting tools

theregister
chicken scheme on OpenBSD using portmidi C lib via ffi.

(I have a fluidsynth instance waiting in the background
to send some midi events to.)

#openbsd #chicken #midi #fluidsynth



$ make
chicken-csc -s -J -I/usr/local/include -L -lportmidi midi.scm midic.c
chicken-csc -I/usr/local/include -L -lportmidi main.scm -o main.exe
$ ./main.exe
main.exe
(midi) test...
(midi) count devices...
n:18
midic-test i:0 name:default
midic-test i:1 name:default
midic-test i:2 name:midithru/0
midic-test i:3 name:midithru/0
midic-test i:4 name:midithru/1
midic-test i:5 name:midithru/1
midic-test i:6 name:rmidi/0
midic-test i:7 name:rmidi/0
midic-test i:8 name:rmidi/1
midic-test i:9 name:rmidi/1
midic-test i:10 name:midi/0
midic-test i:11 name:midi/0
midic-test i:12 name:midi/1
midic-test i:13 name:midi/1
midic-test i:14 name:snd/0
midic-test i:15 name:snd/0
midic-test i:16 name:snd/1
midic-test i:17 name:snd/1
$

Waattzzz?? Tellement longtemps que j'ai posé sur ce fil!
Bon, j'étais pas mal sur la route du train avec @PlagiatBros, mais là, on s'y remet.

Genre p.ex. intégration de la #microtonalité in da setup, pour que mes bombardes & zurnas elles sonnent un peu + comme @AcidArab, hmmm !

Pour ça : création de fichiers #scala (fichier S 😶 ) avec #maqams illégaux + contrôle judicieux des fichiers S avec #Mentat pour que tout le Gang s'y plie: #Surge, #x42-fat1, #Calf, #Fluidsynth

https://framagit.org/orlammd/ouiouilegang_livesetup/-/tree/main/Synths/SurgeXT/Scales?ref_type=heads

Synths/SurgeXT/Scales · main · ORL AMMD / OuiOuiLeGang_LiveSetup · GitLab

Framagit

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Hello Soundfonts (part 1) ITB vs OTB complexity

https://makertube.net/w/14eQQVVSGrYe5iHmEbEZYi

Hello Soundfonts (part 1) ITB vs OTB complexity

PeerTube

Hello Soundfonts - Introduction

https://makertube.net/w/tbWjpj5Z58tqmTnNUVcsFX

Hello Soundfonts - Introduction

PeerTube

Any .sf2 soundfont users around here? Is that already horribly old-school? (I've already found plenty of .sf2s that play shitty and/or sound like crap.)

#sf2 #Fluidsynth #Midi #soundfont

reality:filter Jukebox

PeerTube
midi9000

Opinionated C code to play with (port)midi and fluidsynth on OpenBSD.

Codeberg.org

Today I learned about #Frescobaldi (Linux), which is a front end that integrates #Lilypond notation with GM playback. It is quite amazing! Put this together with the #Fluidsynth frontend called #Qsynth (or your trusty old Yamaha-keyboard) and you can listen to (and edit) your sheet music.

And the resource where you can find great sheet music is of course: https://www.mutopiaproject.org

The Mutopia Project

Free, open, sheet music for the world.

Just got pointed to the LV2 plugin https://github.com/brummer10/Fluida.lv2 which allows using the #FluidSynth General MIDI synthesizer in #Reaper. Worked for me almost out of the box on Manjaro (Arch Linux)!

Ran into it here: https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=25139
GitHub - brummer10/Fluida.lv2: Fluidsynth as LV2 plugin

Fluidsynth as LV2 plugin. Contribute to brummer10/Fluida.lv2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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