BTW, is anyone here familiar with the Vortex 2? On this Dell I have, some MIDI files sound incredibly great but most I play time off cue and run with the wrong instrument. Signal to noise ratio is great and MP3s are good but I couldn't find a worse midi synth if I tried. Soundfonts can't do a thing …

FWIW, I found out a few days ago that it's not just with a MIDI daughter board you can get the hanging note problem. I was playing KGB when things kinda went messed up so I used CTRL ALT DEL to make Windows kill the program and from there, I had to reboot because of a hung note. This was on my old …

I have a curveball to throw into the arena of old 486 and Pentium hardware! Yesterday, I picked up a circa 1995 Macintosh LC630 with a 250mb hard drive, 33mhz 040 cpu, 36mb ram and Mac OS 7.1. Haven't done too much so far with it but somewhere in my basement is a CD flder full of old Mac games from …