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#Music-X Demo

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#62708From: Mario TurchiAug 21, 1989 5:21 PM
Nope, CBM distributes disks that way. I would have preferred them to customize the kickstart to open the initial CLI screen at a full size instead! The exact name was "WorkBench 1.2 A500 I", if I'm not wrong. Mario
#62728From: David ArtAug 21, 1989 9:11 PM
Mario, Thanks for the info. I wonder how many other different names that C= used for the system Workbench disk supplied with the computer? Now you know why it's such a pain to get install scripts that work. There's no consistent base to plan the script around. (C= are you listening?) For the record – to use the Music-X demo install script (execute.me) you must have either a Workbench 1.3 disk or a Workbench 1.2 disk AND they must be named as follows: (without quotes of course) "Workbench 1.2" or "Workbench1.3" That is how the disks are distributed in the US (at least the copies that I have access to 8). The reason that I required (what I thought would be) the original disk in certain spots was to get an unchanged copy of the startup-sequence to edit in the Music-X assigns. Otherwise, you might have some commands in your custom startup-sequence (the one on your S: directory) that would not be in the limited set of commands that are copied onto the Music-X demo disk. Of course, the standard script is copyright by C=, which is why all <continued>
#62729From: David ArtAug 21, 1989 9:11 PM
<continuation> the gyrations were necessary in the first place. The intent was to make the install as painless as possible, but, as you've seen, there always seems to be a hitch. 8) Glad that you've gotten it working. How do you like the program so far? David
#62852From: Mario TurchiAug 22, 1989 4:52 PM
David, I DON'T like it. I just love it.. 🙂 Don't mind for the installation script: even if it was faulty, it is the best one I've ever seen. I wasn't sure about buying a MIDI interface for my Amiga before seeing Music-X (I have an atari ST, you know..). I have no doubts now! Mario.
#62890From: David ArtAug 22, 1989 9:56 PM
Mario, FAULTY! well… 😉 Glad that you like Music-X. I'm really excited about it and hope that it's the first in a series of powerful MIDI software packages for the Amiga. The potential for the Amiga in MIDI is great, we just need a few more blockbuster packages like Music-X to pave the way. David
#62987From: Mario TurchiAug 23, 1989 5:36 PM
I meant 'Faulty' as 'It didn't work at the firt try'! I'm sorry if I chose the wrong word, but english is not my first lagnuage, since I call from Rome, Italy. Mario!
#63072From: David ArtAug 24, 1989 1:18 AM
Mario, No problem. I was only joking with you. (notice the wink at the end? 😉 Actually, your message and talking with Rick Rae brought to my attention a real bug that I had squashed but that inadvertantly got left out of the uploaded version regarding the renaming the Shell icon when installing with WB1.2. I'll be fixing it shortly, along with trying to provide an easy way to handle original disk names different from the defaults. Thanks for the kind words and thanks for your feedback, too. 8) David
#63194From: Allen MittsAug 25, 1989 9:43 AM
> The potential for the Amiga in MIDI is great, we just need a few more blockbuster packages like Music-X to pave the way. Amen to that, David! Regards, Allen