oster@ucblapis.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (05/12/86)
My apologies for broadcasting to the whole net. The mailer has bounced
these at least twice.
To: henry@rochester.rochester.edu
Subject: Re: MacScheme 1.0
I evaluated this, and was very disappointed with it. There is no provision
for doing almost everything with the mac:
1. There is no built in access to the Mac's 400 toolbox operating
system calls.
2. There is no provision for linking in assembly code of your own,
so you can't even write such an interface if you wanted to.
3. There is no provision for defining the memory structures (Pascal
data structures) such an interface would require.
4. There is no provision for creating and accessing a raw block of
memory, so that you could write such structure definitions.
If you want a toy environment
for short, mono-fonted, text only programs then take a look at this.
MacScheme does not provide a class structure, but one can be defined in
less than a page in any lisp that has macros. (as MacScheme does.)
To: levine@Yale.edu
Subject: Music transcription
I use Deluxe Music Construction Set from Electronic Arts.
It handles up to 8 parts, gives you precision control over the placement of
notes on the page. It appears to be able to handle quite long pieces in
a single file.
Printing is done using a 40 point font, but I used Font
Doubler and Fontastic, and built an 80-point font for high quality
printing on the imagewriter. This gives me a G-clef without jaggies.
It will print to the laserwriter if you have one.
The manual has examples of what it can and can't do.
The biggest disadvantage of it is that it is heavily copy-protected.
Price is about $50 list, discounted down to $30.00 .
I'm told that Professional Composer is better, after all, it was designed
for this application, but it lists at $400 (discounted down to $250).
To: markv@dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: Disk Librarian
Your copy probably wasn't mangled, Disk Librarian simply doesn't work.
You can get it to function, provided you use a 512k-Mac, running the old
Roms, no ramdisk, no cache disk, no menu clock, no MacWait. You must put
Disk Librarian on the same disk as the system file, and you must put that
in the internal drive. Even then, it only runs some of the time. I say
forget it.
To: halff@utah.cs.arpa
Subject: Re: Laserwriter Plus
We've upgraded our laserwriters to plus with Apple's upgrade kits
which arrived a few weeks ago.
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