Using those old versions is really taxing my brain. It took me quite awhile to remember how to get multimeasure rests in Fin v2. Finally I remembered: Special Part Extraction!
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Don Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds great, Robert--thank you. Actually J D, it was my thread, but Robert > who brought up Sheepshaver. I'm looking forward to checking it out as well. > > Don Hart > > On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Great info Robert. I saw Don’s post on Sheepsaver and looked into it > > briefly, then got distracted with other tasks. I intend to look much > > deeper thanks to your post. And a big thanks to Don. > > > > J D Thomas > > ThomaStudios > > > > > On Feb 4, 2015, at 8:41 AM, Robert Patterson > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Don Hart got me thinking about how to run old FinMac versions, and I am > > > happy to report that I am running a pretty stable virtual MacOS 9.0.4 > > under > > > Sheepshaver hosted on my contemporary PowerMac running 10.9. (The > > > Sheepshaver docs say it also works all recent Mac OX versions through > > > 10.10, Windows, and Linux.) > > > > > > Sheepshaver is a freeware PPC emulator capable of running Mac OS > versions > > > 7.5.2 - 9.0.4. It was last updated only a year ago, and the forum is > > quite > > > active. It takes a little fiddling to set up, but the instructions are > > > quite accurate and detailed. Everything you need is here > > > <http://emaculation.com/doku.php/sheepshaver>. > > > > > > I am currently able to run Finale 1.0.0, 2.6.3, 3.7.2, 97, 2000, 2002, > > and > > > 2003. (Those are the versions I have held on to. I'm sure it would work > > > also with versions in between.) All except 1.0.0 produce useful > results. > > > That is, I can generate Postscript listings that I can convert to PDF > > > inside OSX. (To be able to get useful results out of 1.0.0 I would have > > to > > > change all the font settings in my 1.x docs from Petrucci 71 to > Petrucci > > > 24, and I don't have enough 1.x files to bother with it. Also, I think > > > there was an update before v2, and I don't have that.) > > > > > > Anyway, I thought other old-time Finale users might be interested that > > this > > > is still possible in 2015, going on 30 years after the release of > 1.0.0. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Finale mailing list > > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
