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well, if you read the post again you'll notice that i asked him to elaborate, but i really think that people should start entering into the contest and not a debate.

it might be simple to you, you've taken piano lessons, i never did, and i don't want a tune contest without boundaries, for me "The Crystal Empire" is boundary enough, you can make good music without all this music theory stuff whether it's basic or not, if people took time to explain exactly what they mean for people that don't know no matter how simple it may seem to be for them, these kind of problems wouldn't occur.
to me, something like below is 4/4 (which i usually associate with drumbeats), next to it is something i might understand to be 3/4...

(that's near enough exactly how it would look in the programme i use to make music)

santa? it reminds me more of that movie "The Thing"
very nice art, but i can't really see pirates riding around in a boat called "Daisy"

x / y, where y is the note value and x is the number of these in a bar.

1 = semibreve / whole note
2 = minim / half note
4 = crotchet / quarter note
8 = quaver / eighth note

Of course, this can continue indefinitely, but if you go above that you'll confuse the performer. Well, not really, but anything else would only make sense in music of a more... modern kind.

It's not that difficult.

that's not really that helpful, can people that host these tune contests stop showing the fact they know about music and all this stuff off in the future? surely it's up to the people that enter the competition to show off their musical abilities and not their knowledge, it just confuses people.

So basically any genre you want, as long as it reflects that kind of mentality. Only restrictions are that you must have two bars of an irregular meter in your song. (ie - if you're in 3/4, put in two bars of 4/4 or 6/8, or even 5/8) Just don't do anything sneaky like one bar of 4/4 and then another in 2/4 (thus equalling two bars of 3/4). They must be audibly 'different'.

could you kind of elaborate on that? not everyone that makes music knows about these kind of things, i know what 4/4 is but all those other numbers just confuse/annoy me... things like that are a good way of preventing people from entering, it's just stupid.

I tried reinstalling the movies, and I tried to use other programs and download the mpeg2 codec and install it.

are you trying to run the DVDs from your hard drive or do you mean you tried reinstalling the dvd playback software?
one thing you could try is buying a cd lens cleaning kit, a dirty lens might cause discs to skip, another thing to try is shutting down all programmes that don't need to be running.
another thing i'd advise is getting a multi-region dvd drive (if it isn't already) or if it's a samsung drive, throw it away, they're useless...

you could also download WinUAE (an amiga emulator) and then search for Amiga In A Box and try locate a disk image of Deluxe Paint 4, the amiga versions are much better than the pc, but dpaint2 is probably the simplest option...

next - i wonder what'll happen if...

how about a moderator editing a post and changing the topic icon to a thumbs up to indicated it's been solved?

next - if cars were made of jelly

i'd have to say i prefer the old site with it's splash screen, the new one looks so sterile compared to the old design, and the title bars look like window style buttons, it's ugly...

beneath a steel sky for me every time

oh, right, i see... so tracked formats aren't allowed? players for them are easy to find, also you can get a utility to convert an xm to an executable file...

if you want shell replacements (skins) for windows, try searching for WindowsBlinds or Chroma, but the novelty does soon wear off and you're away back to using standard grey or eggplant again...

why can't we save as midi? midi has all those instruments doesn't it? it also seems a majority of the musicians here use midi and they you're rules are preventing them from entering.

oh, right, i see, for some reason i was expecting it to cap it off at a lower number, i suppose 74gb or so is just as good as 80gb...
but one thing i'm not clear about is, if i installed win2k and then added a hard drive with data that was stored under win98 and therefore FAT32, would i be able to access this data without any problems or would win2k say "i see this hard drive is fat32, better let me fix that for you by deleting everything" ?

Whoever told you that one's a tad touched.  I'm using a 120 G HD w/ 98 right now.  They may've meant that you won't get the full 80 Gigs because of misleading marketing.  Scientific Gig vs. Standard Gig and FAT32 Vs. NTFS & all that.

yes, but i WANT the full 80 gigs because i paid for them.

i'd say go with win98, but i've been told that apparently it may not work well or recognise all of an 80gb drive so you may have to partition...
if you do decide to go with win98 let me know how it works with your hard drive...

if i remember rightly there is a way to do it with PSP, you puase the movie, then go to screen capture in PSP, but set it up so you define the area you capture...

okay, i'm using Opera to vote now but... i can't find anything in the rules that says you can't vote for your own games, have i missed it, or did you forget to include it?