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Kornel Kisielewicz:
The question is wether donationware is freeware. I don't want to have any problems with that. The FMOD page sais that it's free as long as you don't make any money from it. I do (or want to) by donations so that's why I'll stick to SDL.

Rabiat:
I've seen this error as well. Version 0.9.8.5 with midi and sound runs fine on WinXP, but the same distribution crashes with "etc/timidity/timidity.cfg: no such file or directory" on an old machine running Win98, unless you disable music in the ini file. I'm guessing Win98 midi support may be causing the problem.

Miskatonic:
I just received this error message trying to run DoomRL on my crappy ancient Win98 laptop. Here's what I had to do to get MIDI working:

Go to the Multimedia control panel, the MIDI tab. That shows which MIDI devices are installed on your system. In my case, the default device was a Yamaha SoftSynth I had installed. I changed it to "ESS FM Synthesis", hit OK. Now DoomRL runs correctly. The quality of the MIDI is gross, but that's to be expected.

Hopefully that helps somebody.

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