On 10 Mar 2005 at 21:24, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Phil Daley schrieb: > > Does FinaleV3 run on any current MacOS? > > I haven't tried it, but I am pretty sure it will run just fine under > Classic. MIDI won't work, but that probably doesn't work under XP > either, does it?
I can't say for certain, but it's actually quite likely to work, because WinFin3.x was a 16-bit program. When the first 32-bit version of WinFin came out (97), MIDI was supported on NT-based Windows (only NT 4 at the time) only in the 16- bit version (at that time, Coda was providing both 32-bit and 16-bit versions of Finale on the same installation disk). The reason 16-bit worked and not 32-bit was because 16-bit applications bypass the hardware abstraction layers underlying the 32- bit Windows API. Getting MIDI to work in NT was a project that Coda had substantial difficulty with because of the translation problems. So, I think your assumptions are actually quite wrong. Microsoft has always provided 16-bit compatibility in all its 32-bit Windows versions (Win9x was actually a hybrid, support the Win32 API, but with significant 16-bit components within the OS itself). I have never run onto a 16-bit Windows program that does not work just fine on NT-based Windows (NT 4, Win2K, WinXP). And that includes MIDI. > The real problem would be to get it installed, since it came on > Floppies, and no Mac these days has a floppy drive. If you can get access to a floppy drive, you could copy them to a CD and surely use that for installation. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
