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2003-04-08 by Spencer Chase
Greetings disklavier, I have not had very good luck with Midisport interfaces and old computers. Their drivers and support are pretty bad. Fine for the latest machines but not much else. Roland makes a USB interface that is cheaper and has worked with no problems on every machine I have used it with. Just plugs and plays the way it should. Can you run win 98 on a 486? If not, it is unlikely that any USB devices can be made to work without a huge effort. You can also use a PC card adapter. They make them for game and joystick use and have MIDI thrown in. I bought some generic thing on E-Bay for about $15 that works just fine on an old notebook, P266 running Win 98 SE. The Win 98 Media Player is just about the only piece of really good software by microsoft. This or any other program that uses the direct-x multimedia interface will play MIDI perfectly even with other tasks running. Without this you would have to make sure that the computer was running only the MIDI program or the music might be erratic. -- Best regards, Spencer Chase 67550 Bell Springs Rd. Garberville, CA 95542 (POSTAL SERVICE ONLY) Laytonville, CA 95454 (UPS ONLY) mailto:spencer@... http://www.spencerserolls.com http://www.spencerserolls.com/MidiValve.htm (707) 984-8356