Richard wrote: "I don't mean to belabor the point, but I do think it's helpful to put to rest any suggestion of willful dishonesty here. The Win3.1+Win32s configuration may well explain Raney's claim, and Jacque qualified hers appropriately with "maybe".
We're all professionals here, just doing our best to realize the possibilities given what we have to work with. I don't think anyone's going out of their way to make this any harder than it is." ============================== Okay. Since you asked (and since I brought it up, it does indeed seem only fair), here is a brief chronology of the development of events as I've been able to ascertain thus far; corrections are welcomed: Macintosh introduced: January 1984 Windows 1.0: 1985 Hypercard including the "play" command (near as I can tell but I don't have original manuals): 1987? Windows 2.0 released: 1987 Windows 3.0 released: 1990 abcCode released/used by John Walsh of the of the University of British Columbia: 1991 (http://abcnotation.org.uk/) --abcCode is the scripted musical notation software that I believe was first used on the PC near as I can tell. HC Player released: 1992 (http://www.pfhyper.com/hcfaq/hcfaq2.html); apparent end of free HC. Walsh releases abcCode system on the IRTRAD-L listserve, mid- November 1993 (http://abcnotation.org.uk/) abcCode and playabc released to general public March 1994 ( http://abcnotation.org.uk/) I didn't join the HC list until sometime after 1994 I believe, thus any of my memories of Scott Raney post-date 1994, and thus also post-date abcCode, and playabc abc playback on windows PC computers, thus any memories I may harbor regarding the issue fully postdate the ability to script musical notation on the PC by 3 or more years and play back scripted musical notation on the PC platform by a good year or more (I didn't discover abcCode and its related technologies until considerably later when I was assigned to teach my department's multimedia development course (horrors, I know). abc2win released: September 1995 Windows95 released: 1995 Hypercard 2.3 reviewed in MacWorld Magazine: November 1, 1995 ( http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-17477993.html), but PR Newswire reports the introduction as May 1, 1995 (http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-16884710.html). This is reportedly the version that introduced soundChannel support. Does that work? Judy http://revined.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution