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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

201.0. "What's your version " by CYGNUS::DEBRUYN (Tony - my AMIGA DOS it all for me) Thu Dec 04 1986 12:45

    I recently acquired a used AMIGA complete (maybe) with a number
    of proprietary and public software packages.  The trouble is that
    it looks like the previous owner had the system for a while but
    did not keep the software up to date.  Now I am trying to find out
    what the most current releases of the various packages are.  Where
    can I get a reasonable uptodate listing?  How about opening a note
    dedicated to announcing or listing current releases, something like
    the AMIGA owners directory.  Any volunteers to start it off.  
    
    I am looking to upgrade TEXTCRAFT, GRAFICRAFT, TRANSFORMER, Aegis
    Images, and MUSICRAFT.
    
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201.1no newsTRUMAN::LEIMBERGERBill LeimbergerSun Dec 07 1986 18:296
    I believe musicraft is a dead product .It was out for a very short
    time then disappeared . Textcraft,and graphicraft both are put out
    by CBM. I got them when I purchased my system have an mailed in my
    registration cards no notice so far .
    
    bill
201.2MusicraftTLE::RMEYERSRandy MeyersMon Dec 08 1986 07:5312
Re .1:

I think that the Commodore Representative at the fair held in Marlboro
said that Musicraft has undergone a name change (something like Music
Works) and will be released the first quarter of 1987.  I got the idea
that either Musicraft was a product that was very late or a product that 
had had a very bad first version.  (The type of first version where you
shoot all the programmers involved and start over.)

I could have all this scrambled.  I haven't been following music programs
for the Amiga.  Deluxe Paint taught me that I can't draw; music lessons
when I was twelve taught me that I am not musically inclined.
201.3Sonix?JAKE::ACCIARDIMon Dec 08 1986 15:3010
    Musicraft has been taken over by Aegis Development and will be released
    as 'SONIX' real soon now.
    
    I have a Beta version of Musicraft (.9 I think) and I thought that
    the instrument systhesis was awesome.  The musical notation did
    not scroll, but this program really made some great sounds, unlike
    Music Studio, which I think is an incredible dog.  Music Studio
    beeps and boops about as bad as my Intellivision did, which merely
    proves that the Amiga's oscillators can mimmick an Atari ST if
    programmed correctly.
201.4A NitDRUMS::FEHSKENSTue Dec 09 1986 13:406
    re .3 - the Amiga doesn't have oscillators; all sound generation
    is done from wavetables.  Mimicking (mimic is the non-gerund form)
    an ST is thus no big deal.
    
    len.