Date   : Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:10:14 -0000
From   : "Kris Adcock" <krisa@...>
Subject: Re: Anyone remember a music system?

(I've replied at the bottom, just to confuse everyone. :) )

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Rozanov [mailto:vic792r@...]
> Sent: 14 January 2002 21:20
> To: Kris Adcock
> Cc: 'BBC list'
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Anyone remember a music system?
>
>
> Straight IMHO.
>
> There absolutely no reason to use that old sequenser software
> nowadays.
> It can be easily outperformed by any $100  keyboard from any
> toys store.
> And also I think there are no worm feelings about that software.
> It was not that brilliant like the other titles on the BBC are.
>
> IMHO again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Victor.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Kris Adcock wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:42:31 -0000
> > From: Kris Adcock <krisa@...>
> > To: 'BBC list' <bbc-micro@...>
> > Subject: [BBC-Micro] Anyone remember a music system?
> >
> > Morning all,
> >
> > Many, many years ago, when the universe was young, men were
> real men, small
> > furry things from alpha century ... etc ... and I was about
> 7, a friend lent
> > me a music composition program for the Beeb. All I can
> remember about it was
> > that it had some very impressive (for a 7-year-old, anyway)
> demo files which
> > came with it. One was called RONDO (which was the Turkish
> March by Mozart),
> > and was in about 5 separate files. There was an actual
> composition bit, then
> > a kind-of playlist bit, etc. I only had it for a week, as
> my friend wanted
> > it back and I didn't know how to beat copy protection at
> the time. Does
> > anyone reckon they know what this software was called? And
> is it available
> > on any of the usual archives?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Kris.
> >

Victor,

I think you may be missing the point somewhat: Nostalgia. You might as well
ask us all why we're playing 4-colour Beeb games when we could own stonking
computers with 3D graphics cards (in fact, I play Counterstrike and Chuckie
Egg in roughly equal measures). I don't /want/ to use it as a sequencer. I
just wanna mess with it again.

> And also I think there are no worm feelings about that software.

I hope you mean that YOU have no warm feelings about that software.
Otherwise, you'd be suggesting that I'd be wrong to have any such feelings.

Besides, other threads on this list have highlighted that it might be worth
resurrecting it - just to see what is needed to beat the protection!

Cheers,

Kris.