Bug? MIDI device not released

[Reko]

It would appear that AGS doesn't release MIDI device handles either when a game is closed down using Task Manager, or when a game is exited with Alt+F4. (Applications started to fail to open devices shortly after I did both of these, so I can't be too sure which it was.)

Since the only way to release the device is to reboot, this is quite irritating.

I'm on Win98, SE.

[Pumaman]

So it does work properly if you close the game down normally with the Quit option?

I can take a look at it, but I'm running Windows 2000 which doesn't lock the MIDI device to a single application so you don't get this problem; therefore it'll be difficult to debug.

[RickJ]

I noticed the same thing on a Win2000 machine when I did a Ctrl+Alt+End.   

I  had to do this because for some reason the game that was running minimized, returning the desktop to the screen.  It's not my machine so I can't say what was going on  with the game minimizing.  I just assumed  there was something else running on that machine that made this happen?