On 23 Mar 2005 at 5:50, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > David Bailey wrote:
[] > > But copy protection isn't what has done Mosaic in, it's the > > advancing OS which has left the old code in the dust and the > > developper of Mosaic decided to pull the plug on the program. > > Nothing will be able to save Finale into the future once either > > Windows or MacOS move onto 128-bit programming and the then-current > > versions won't run any 16-bit apps anymore. > > It's hard to say whether this is a true statement or not. I suspect > if Finale's products have been properly designed, while I can imagine > some things might need re-working for the 128 bit programming > environment, I suspect that most of Finale is already carefully > written so that what will be required with a switch of environments > will be to recompile the source code with a suitable 128 bit compiler, > and the new OS will not know the difference. The 16-bit applications > which will fail to run in a 128 bit environment are going to fall into > two general categories: those for which the source code is no longer > available, and thus which cannot be recompiled, on one hand, and on > the other, those that make illegal direct access calls to the hardware > on the other. Would you *please* refrain from posting about subjects on which you are clearly ignorant? Code written to the Win32 API *can't* address hardware directly. If it does, then it's not based fully on Win32. With WinFin97, Coda switched to using Microsoft's own development tools. As long as MakeMusic keeps up with current MS development tools, then WinFin should continue to run quite well for 2 or 3 versions of Windows in the future (because MS doesn't abandon development standards quickly). But all of this is a red herring -- no one has called for the release of the Finale codebase, and I don't think it likely at all that MakeMusic would ever do so, even after the collapse of the firm. What *has* been proposed is much less complicated and much less expensive and of much more immediate benefit to end users (were MM to go out of business). -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
