As you are no doubt aware, mad scientist Giles Bowkett’s has a rad drum machine/crazy MIDI thing called Archaeopteryx. A common complaint with Archaeopteryx (hereafter “arkx”) is that it only runs on OSX.

The cool thing is that Giles used Topher Cyll’s code from Practical Ruby Projects. You may recall that I recently published a little library called MIDIator that also uses Topher’s code to provide easy access to MIDI on the major operating systems.

I’ve never really said this in public, but the real reason I wrote MIDIator in the first place was to become e-famous by making arkx work on Windows and Linux. So, it is with extreme hope for e-fame pleasure that I have pushed my branch of arkx that converts it to use MIDIator for MIDI interaction.

You can find the branch over here on GitHub. Please to enjoy.