Greetings, Stuart Slater - On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:42 PM, sws <s.w.sla...@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> Dear Ralph Palmer, > > Sorry to be opaque and obscure ... you *may*be aging; but some wd allege > I'm worse than that. > > The _Commodore *Amiga 2000*_ was a splendid machine, c. 1985: leagues > ahead of the contemporary > (Chief Nerdian ~ Bill Gatesian) M$ or Apple-Mac etc. personal computers. It > excelled at graphics (using > several different chips with ladies' names, such as Denise ... ). It ran a > good OS, called AmigaDos. > Systems that outclassed M$ in all departments. The Amiga series is extinct. > > > DMCS was short for "DeLuxe Music Construction Set" ('by Geoff Brown' *[and > someone]*) -- > part of the *Electronic Arts *excellent _"Deluxe Creativity Series"_ This > included > graphics-packages as well as music ones. Mainly intended for the Amiga ... > > DMCS was far ahead of its time. Can be used still much more readily than > _Finale_, or > _Sibelius_, which I also use ... Doesn't print as well, by modern > standards. By readily > I suppose I mean intuitively ... swift to learn ... etc. > > So I suppose I was suggesting that someone, somewhere, might make a > translation program > from DMCS ... whether from BillDOS or AmigaDos (preferably)_ or whatever > ... to Mac OS X.n > At least something capable to print sheet music archived. > > This will not ever happen, of course: business is business. > > There used to be Mac emulations of the Amiga offered on the net; I could > never make them work. > > I still have that old Amiga working fine, however; if only the color > monitor had not dropped dead. > As they do. But I bored you about that before. > > Perhaps I have been a _little_ clearer this time. Though one fears, not > completely .... > > Regards, > Stuart Slater > (ancient non-nerd, non-hacker; partially sighted ... musical > etc etc ) > Still, as the late Kurt Vonnegut -- splendid American novelist -- wrote, > pinching from his medico son's > remarks to include in his own --- later confessing to this forgiveable > plagiarism: > *"At least we are getting through this thing .... WHATEVER IT IS ...."* > > Stuart and Bug Squad - This doesn't look to me like a LilyPond issue. Perhaps there is someone out there who might want to take on such a project. Would the development list be an appropriate place to make the request? Pondly, Ralph _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond