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What do I need to play MIDI's in Win98?
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10-05-2010, 11:24 PM

I had a computer just lying around, doing nothing. It's an old computer that's around 10 years old or so because it has a Win 98 sticker on it, but it had XP installed. I bought it back when I had no money but now I have a new computer. So I decided to convert it to Win98. I bought an installation disk and everything is back to how it was, except it wont play MIDI's or any media file for that matter. So what do I get to make it play MIDI's. I want to play some old games I have but I can't hear any music.
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10-05-2010, 11:26 PM
Look for some Windows 98 sound drivers.
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10-05-2010, 11:28 PM
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10-06-2010, 12:55 AM
(10-05-2010, 11:26 PM)Alpha Six Wrote: Look for some Windows 98 sound drivers.

Where do I get those?
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10-06-2010, 01:05 AM
Weird, I thought that any windows media player could play midi as default
Oh well, try getting winamp
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10-06-2010, 01:20 AM
wrong forum???
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10-06-2010, 03:49 AM
Heh, it took 4 mods before one of them realised this thread was in the wrong place.
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10-07-2010, 05:07 PM
(10-06-2010, 01:05 AM)Ultimecia Wrote: Weird, I thought that any windows media player could play midi as default
Oh well, try getting winamp

I looked at the website but I can't find the System Requirements for Winamp. Will it really work on Win98? Will it be able to play MIDI's while playing my game?
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10-08-2010, 03:05 PM
I have winamp since it's release in 1997. I think it's safe for Win98 until version 3 (there is no winamp 4, the current version (5) is a fusion between v2 and v3).
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10-08-2010, 08:33 PM
you could run winamp on a toaster
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10-09-2010, 12:46 PM
quicktime plays midis.
winamp 2.x plays midis.
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