[Scummvm-devel] Re: Money for a MT32/CM32L

[James 'Ender' Brown]

Oops, didn't notice the CC to -devel. Bounce the reply over there too.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: James 'Ender' Brown <ender at scummvm.org>
> To: Max Horn <max at quendi.de>
> Subject: Re: Money for a MT32/CM32L
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:09:42 +0800
>
> We have USD$135 in the account ATM. I'm not sure what that is in Euros,
> and I need to reimburse some of it to Jake for postage of the web comp
> prizes (shouldn't be more than $10-$15 I suspect).
> 
> As for whether it's alright with the team, I dunno. So far we've only
> used it to buy software for team members, this will be the first
> hardware purchase. As long as it doesn't set a bad example, I don't
> really see a problem with it :)
> 
> Although there are a number of team members who already have MT32s for
> previous work (khalek has one and a Mac, doesn't he?), so my only
> concern is if it'd be redundant.
> 
>  - Ender
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 20:19 +0200, Max Horn wrote:
> > Yo Ender,
> > 
> > how much money do we have on our donation account? I was wondering  
> > whether it was possible to use some of it to sponsor some MIDI hardware  
> > for me...
> > 
> > In particular I am thinking about getting myself a MT32/CM32L from eBay  
> > so I can implement support for it under Mac OS X (see also  
> > <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
> > func=detail&aid=1187552&group_id=37116&atid=418823>). I already got a  
> > MIDI<->USB adapter from eBay, which cost me about 35 Euro. So far, all  
> > the MT32s I have been bidding on went for more than 45 Euros (excluding  
> > shipping), I hope I'll find a cheaper one eventually.
> > 
> > In addition to being able to implement native MT32 support on Mac (and  
> > support for MIDI devices other than the soft-synth in general), I could  
> > then test the MT32 emu under OS X (right now I lack the control ROM  
> > needed to use it), and fix bugs in it (see e.g.  
> > <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
> > func=detail&aid=1192316&group_id=37116&atid=418820>).
> > 
> > I hope using our money this way is OK with the rest of the team... ?
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Max
> > 
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James 'Ender' Brown <ender at scummvm.org>