28 Jan
2007
28 Jan
'07
7:28 a.m.
I bought a Powerbook 150 years ago and my brother has
been using
it for years in the studio to run the MIDI sequencer FreeStyle.
The PB 150 recently died and I bought a couple of Powerbook 540c
on eBay to replace it.
My current problem list:
1. My AppleCD 600e (which works fine on the PB 150) does
not show up on either of the PB 540c, so I have no way
to read CDs on the 540c machines.
This sounds like an Extension problem. Do you have all the CD extensions
installed on the 540c? I don't remember them off the top of my head, but
they're things like Apple CD, Hi-Sierra, etc.
I assume you are using the same cable (HDI-30 to "Centronics" SCSI).
2. FreeStyle uses FreeMidi to talk to a MIDI interface
over
the modem/printer port. This was a complete pain to setup
on the PB 150 as there were bugs (possibly MacOS 7 related)
which made the natural automated MIDI configuration fail
to work and hang the computer.
Setting up FreeMidi on the 540c running MacOS 7.5 has
similar problems. Setting up FreeMidi on the 540c running
MacOS 8 does not have these problems (which is why I
think it is probably MacOS7 related). I am unable to make
either 540c talk properly to the MIDI interface such that
it sees the various MIDI keyboards, etc.
I haven't had much experience with FreeMIDI; I've always used Open Music
System. The current version is 2.3.8 but I don't remember if OMS is PPC only.
It is freely downloadable -- at worst it just won't install. I looked at my
backup installer in HexEdit and didn't see anything that implied it was PPC
only, but I really don't know for sure.
How did you get Mac OS 8 installed on the 540c without a CD??
3. I thought that updating the version of FreeMidi
from 1.3
to the latest 1.48 would be a good idea. The image size
is 4Mb, which does not fit onto a floppy.
I suspect this problem will be solved when you get the CD working :)
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