This is a revival of the programs mf2t and t2mf that I wrote starting in 1991, for the Atari ST (32-bit), MS-DOS (16-bit) and later Unix (probably 32-bits).
I recently picked this up again after some people asked me for executables for modern Windows (presumably 32- or 64-bit). I use a Mac, so I needed newer versions, for 64-bit OS's (in my case MacOS Ventura).
Modern C-compilers are much more picky than the Kernighan & Ritchie C-compilers that I first used. So the source code had to be adjusted to conform to more modern C standards (in this case C-99). The bulk of this work had been done (as far as I know) by Mats Peterson (see below).
I also found a number of changed versions by different people, mainly for compiling on Windows 32-bit (for example Windows-XP, which still runs on Windows 11). I'll try to mention all people who contributed but some contributions were anonymous.
This repository contains as far as possible the history of the source code, but, for example, the Original RCS repository for the source code has been lost, so the history is a crude approximation.
All the text files have been converted to Unix format, using UTF-8 when ASCII isn't sufficient. If you need Windows format, please convert them yourselves.
NOTE: Probably several email addresses are out of date. I have tried to replace the email addresses with current ones, and added website URLs where possible. Some contributions have been superseded by later changes,
- Tim Thompson, me@timthompson.com Original midi library. He has written a lot of MIDI software and compositions. See https://timthompson.com/tjt/.
- Michael Czeiszperger michael@czei.org added writing capabilities to the midi library
- Wiel Seuskens wiel@wiels.com http://wiels.com/ Amiga version (1994)
- Erich Neuwirth erich.neuwirth@univie.ac.at Changes for GCC. (2003)
- Norman Megill (deceased in 2021) Metamath https://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mmmusic.html
- Luca Ciciriello modified the program to run on MacOSX (ppc/Intel 386).
Universal binaries can be found at https://us.metamath.org/downloads/mf2t.zip.
Look in
mf2t/mf2t-Mac/Midi_MacOSX_Xcode/Midi_MacOSX_Xcode/(2006)midisrcfor source code,midibinfor binaries. Latest patches not applied. - Nide Naoyuki (Japanese word order - Naoyuki Nide - European word order) nide@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp. Some patches which are superseded by Mats Peterson's version. (2009) From https://groups.google.com/g/fj.sources/c/MGThNnFxpEw
- Vaclav Spirhanzl vjs.blog@gmail.com: Mac version, change of using strerror instead of sys_errlist (2011) From https://en.freedownloadmanager.org/Mac-OS/MacMIDIt2mf-FREE.html https://macdownload.informer.com/macmidit2mf/download/ These changes are included in Mats Peterson's version.
- Yin Dian yindian@gmail.com Some bugfixes, superseded by below versions (2014). https://github.com/yindian/midi2text
- Mats Peterson mats.peterson@gmail.com C-99 compatible + other changes (open files). From https://github.com/codenotes/mf2t version 20150711. Ported to Windows.
- Phil Budne phil@ultimate.com https://github.com/philbudne/mf2t (2021)
Various changes, of which I used a few, especially using
perrorinstead offprintf(stderr, ... strerror....
Pieter van Oostrum
(formerly Piet van Oostrum)
email: pieter@vanoostrum.org
www: https://pieter.vanoostrum.org