Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-10-10 Thread Richard Huggins
I run Mac F2k2 using OS 8.6 on a non-G3 Powerbook 3400 with 3GB HD space, SCSCI-connected to a Powerbook 1400 (acting as a SCSI drive) for a total of 6 GB. The external PB is full up and the main PB has <1MB available. Until I can upgrade my CPU I will "upgrade" to OS 9 ( since I can't run OS X) an

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-10-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 03:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was delighted to see the announcement of Finale 2004 for Mac, mainly because, after years of begging and begging, "smart hyphens" have finally been included!!! Yippee!!! And then I looked at the system requirements...Mac OS 9.

[Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-10-10 Thread mbanner
I was delighted to see the announcement of Finale 2004 for Mac, mainly because, after years of begging and begging, "smart hyphens" have finally been included!!! Yippee!!! And then I looked at the system requirements...Mac OS 9.x, plus at least 200 MB of empty hard drive space. Let's see...I'm

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 07:34 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 19 Aug 2003 at 19:20, Darcy James Argue wrote: On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 06:55 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: And what really matters is not an OS version's *release* date, but the last date at which it was available on mach

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Aug 2003 at 19:20, Darcy James Argue wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 06:55 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > And what really matters is not an OS version's *release* date, but > > the last date at which it was available on machines. > > That's the key difference between Macs an

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 06:55 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: And what really matters is not an OS version's *release* date, but the last date at which it was available on machines. That's the key difference between Macs and PCs. Macs always ship with the most up-to-date version of the OS.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Aug 2003 at 15:56, Darcy James Argue wrote: > No offense but at this point, you're lucky that *any* software company > is releasing *any* new version that doesn't require OS X. OS 9 is > long dead, and OS 8.6??? That's over five years old at this point. > Most current Mac software require

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-19 Thread timothy price
> Martin Banner wrote: > And then I looked at the system requirements...Mac OS 9.x, plus at least > 200 MB of empty hard drive space. Let's see...I'm running OS 8.6 on my > Mac at home and at school (so I can still use Microsoft Works, which I > haven't had any luck loading onto an OS 9.x machine).

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Mark D Lew
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 11:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And then I looked at the system requirements...Mac OS 9.x, plus at least 200 MB of empty hard drive space. Let's see...I'm running OS 8.6 on my Mac at home and at school (so I can still use Microsoft Works, which I haven't had an

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Robert, I usually agree with a lot of what you say, but I cannot let this go uncommented: On 18.08.2003 23:53 Uhr, Robert Patterson Finale wrote > Darcy James Argue wrote: >> OS 9 is long dead > > I just can't let this go by. Long dead??!!! Apple went to OSX-only booting > fully a year too soon

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 05:53 PM, Robert Patterson Finale wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: OS 9 is long dead I just can't let this go by. Long dead??!!! Hey, don't blame me. Steve Jobs held a mock "funeral" for OS 9 over a year ago. You may feel the burial was premature, or the heir unq

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Robert Patterson Finale
Darcy James Argue wrote: > OS 9 is long dead I just can't let this go by. Long dead??!!! Apple went to OSX-only booting fully a year too soon, and are at least morally guilty of negligence for doing so. OSX still does not have proper MIDI support. (The current CoreMIDI situation is a [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Richard Huggins
I run Mac F2k2 using OS 8.6 on a non-G3 Powerbook 3400 with 3GB HD space, SCSCI-connected to a Powerbook 1400 (acting as a SCSI drive) for a total of 6 GB. The external PB is full up and the main PB has <1MB available. Until I can upgrade my CPU I will "upgrade" to OS 9 ( since I can't run OS X) an

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 03:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was delighted to see the announcement of Finale 2004 for Mac, mainly because, after years of begging and begging, "smart hyphens" have finally been included!!! Yippee!!! And then I looked at the system requirements...Mac OS 9.

[Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-08-18 Thread mbanner
I was delighted to see the announcement of Finale 2004 for Mac, mainly because, after years of begging and begging, "smart hyphens" have finally been included!!! Yippee!!! And then I looked at the system requirements...Mac OS 9.x, plus at least 200 MB of empty hard drive space. Let's see...I'm