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Get this demo. It pwns.

Six months is plenty of time for a component such as a psu to fail. And it's certainly enough time for a chip to work its way loose from the motherboard.

A forum I used to go on had a 'start here' board, where everyone would post their obligatory hi posts.

There are two possible reasons for this:

1. A RAM chip may be loose. Take all your memory out, reseat it, and try again.
2. You psu may be reaching the end of its life, or be too low powered. Buy a new, 400w psu, and see if that solves it.

I pm'ed you with a url, cj.

Ack! That really, really sucks. Any chance of that going on the feature suggestions list? Or do any midi masterminds here have a workaround?

This is a really strange problem. I have a MIDI, that's essentially a piano solo, which makes extensive use of the sustain midi control. It plays fine with any media player; winamp, winMP, whatever, but when I use it in an ags game, for some reason the sustain control doesn't function, leaving a very staccato and weird sounding piece. I've tried using both midi formats (1 and 0) to no avail. Can anyone help me?

You probably tried to download the whole SDK. Try this link, it's a 10kb installer which goes on to download something that's about 9mb iirc: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a19bed22-0b25-4e5d-a584-6389d8a3dad0&displaylang=en

www.microsoft.com/downloads directX 9 is the first link there.

We'll see if there are any more votes, first

I'll have to go for woodz's as well, since it's got correct perspective (albeit as a result of the computer!) and I'm a stickler for perspective.

Pff you don't need cable it's not THAT big.

Here's a step-by-step of how I created the guitar effect:

1. Set MIDI ticks per quarter note to 240 (this will allow resolution down to the hemidemisemiquaver level)
2. Set the grid that notes are snapped to to 15 ticks (a hemidemisemiquaver)
3. The basic principle of creating the strum is that the last note played is at the time you want the chord to actually sound, with the other notes occuring before the beat. That probably didn't make sense, so just grab the bottom note of your triad and move it back 15 ticks. That pretty much sums it up. For a more relaxed feel move the bottom note back 30 ticks and the middle back 15 ticks; I randomly used this instead of the former to make it sound more live.
4. The sustain pedal effect is normally used on pianos, but apply it to guitars using one of two methods:
a. be lazy (like I was) and set the sustain controller to 127 at the start of the piece and never take it off, or
b. if you're heading for an uber-1337 solo accoustic guitar masterpiece, set sustain to on (127) when the fingers are going to be on the fretboard, and off (0) when the player would take their fingers off.

One thing that struck me was the way the guitar 'banged', instead of being strummed, like real guitars are, and real guitars also sound a lot more sustained. I decided to have a go fixing this and came up with this:

http://www.btinternet.com/~peter.rocker/deserted.mid

It's exactly the same as yours, excet midi ticks per quarter note has been increased to 240, the guitar part has been 'strumified' (lol) and I've put some sustain controls on it.

Oh yeah, I also panned the bass guitar nearer to the centre. I hope you don't mind, it was just bugging me a bit.

<marquee>And does html work in this forum?</marquee>

Even if it did, why would you annoy everyone with a marquee on your first ever post? WHY?

j/k

Excellent work two things: 1. it needs some ambient noise when you're in the room, and 2. the guy's talking animation is drawn 1 pixel to the side of the normal view. But apart from that, it's looking great.

I had this same problem with windows 98 and directX8.1. Try downloading directX 9 from www.microsoft.com/downloads and see if that helps.

Hmm... if we have the film on dvd, would we be allowed to rip backgrounds? And what about the music? I could live without the backgrounds but being allowed to use the exact music (with appropriate credits, of course) would help a lot. Of course, I could use midis... but I couldn't guarantee that I could find ones for the film I have in mind.

Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears (the book) contains a complete guide to building a hydrogen bomb, but nobody minds, since the machinery needed (not to mention the plutonium and other materials) is fairly impossible to get hold of.

I'd buy a piano, and become the next [insert composer here]