Re: Transoposing Software

I guess ABC files will never be useless as they can be read by mere humans
(in the worst case) and input into something new - unless, of course, some
PC Operating System of the future no longer supports ASCII...

Len

"DavBarnert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Bruce Henderson wrote:
>
>  >I can't throw away 10 years of ABC work!
>
> Don't get me started!
>
> For many years, my music software was "Concertware" for Macintosh.
> I spent literally thousands of hours throughout the late 1980s and
> 1990s creating files of every tune I knew, and some classical
> pieces. I used it to drive two synthesizers and to create sheet
> music. It sang rounds with itself. I had it play a contradance at
> Ashokan in 1988. Sound effects and fantastic timbres and all. It
> documented all the unusual tunes our Morris team used.
>
> Guess what. There hasn't been an upgrade since 1996 and the
> company that published it doesn't seem to exist anymore. It
> doesn't run under OSX, and runs awkwardly under Mac OS 7, 8 and 9.
> And, of course, the files are useless to any current software. I
> could run the program on an old Mac and make MIDI files out of
> what I've got, and then use modern software to turn them into abc,
> but that would probably be more work than starting from scratch,
> and would ignore most of the formatting that I did which was
> specific to the old software.
>
> In short, I'm screwed. It's just gone. Donde drano. And you know
> what? I've learned to accept it. I've moved on. Now I'm spending
> thousands of hours doing abc stuff and in 15 years, the files will
> probably be just as meaningless.
>
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