PLAYMID.BAS and MIDI file.

[DSMan195276]

Between the versions 0.954 to the current, what changed, that prevented the playing of midi files?

0.954 was the last version to use the SDL library to implement a lot of the backend that actually implements most of the features. The version after that dropped SDL in favor of a collection of various other libraries, and in doing so MIDI support was dropped, as it was supported by SDL but no replacement was added.

will the ability to play midi files be added to the latest versions?

There is now a GitHub card for it here, but I'll be honest that at the moment this isn't all that high on the list, I've mostly just been focusing on fixing bugs when they come up (which we already have a long list of...) and adding HTTP support which would solve some longstanding issues.

One thing I don't like about GitHub is that it's hard to gauge how much interest there actually is in a particular issue. If you do want this prioritized I would recommend making a GitHub account if you don't have one and then leave a thumbs up on the first comment in the issue to let us know. I can't promise it will get done, but it would be very useful to us to know how many people are actually interested in a feature.