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Probably far more useless? I beg to differ! Haiku is keeping the BeOS alive as OSS, although it's still at alpha. Have you used Gobe Productive ever? It's an amazing suite, very innovative, way better than anything I can think of for general stuff.

Not to mention BeBits.com for all your free and open source software needs...

Do you know anything about BeOS to make such a definitive sounding statement? I'd say BeOS is way more useable than OS9 - but I'd never advise someone on OS choice and present things as statements of fact.

Give it a try!

http://www.haiku-os.org/

http://www.bebits.com/

Did any of you actually use an M1 back in the day? No-one ever programmed it beyond the presets!

Kaboom! With the wheel controller.

Absolutely frantic and great, great fun.

I find it helpful to think like this: Music theory, like mathematics, is a human invention to enable us to analyse and communicate about music, amongst other things.

Let me give a (pretty OK-ish) comparison: You know how when a footballer kicks a ball in the most amazing curve and lands the ball just where he wants it? That footballer doesn't necessarily have any knowledge on projectiles and mechanics; rather it's all done by feel. And a mathematician could analyse that same kick with conventional physics and maths too. Ultimately, the "art" of the kick is what affects the reality, and the footballer - even if he's a great one - needs no understanding of the theory of projectiles.

Music and theory are somewhat similar to this. One needs no theory training to tell when something sounds good, or even to create great music, but knowledge of the theory can bring all sorts of new ways of looking at and communicating about music. Goes back to what I said earlier about theory being a "tool" for us to help us in our musical endeavours.

I do, but it's quite a rare skill. I'm blessed with perfect pitch and have been making music since before I understood what music really was, and I am musically trained to a very high level. So I have quite an advantage when it comes to working with musical ideas "in the brain" . A good musician will have to put the hours in just like anyone else who's good at anything. But all these skills can be learned (if you want to).

So did Johnny Marr, and that didn't stop him being perhaps the most influential pop guitarist of the '80s!

I'd like to say I don't have that problem , but I think it's something that humans in all walks of life will have to deal with, at least for the foreseeable!

Hope this is useful, and maybe reassuring, to you.

This is true of any adaptor that gives the MIDI sockets from the joystick port. As already mentioned, these devices are simply passing through signals, not doing any real "hard work". So a driver wouldn't come into it, and it is not something that is OS-specific in any way.

Takes me back though - I haven't used a joystick port for MIDI since I had a 486 and Windows 3.11 (and it was for the time, current tech)!

Remember people - wearing your old festival/gig wristbands is not a good idea. It looks daft and won't get you in again next year.

And think of the hygiene - eurgh!

That video is astonishing. I cannot believe the Commie can do all this in real time.

I am tempted to dig my XE cable out and try this on my real C-64, as I'm having great difficulty believing this is possible!

It's a shame, I always hated Suzanne Vega.