Old notation software

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OCTO
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Old notation software

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Being inspired by Den with this post viewtopic.php?p=7178#p7178 I am thinking we could be a little bit nostalgic and post pictures and screenshots of old software/hardware.

Here is Score Perfect Pro for Atari:
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Yep Octo, brilliant idea: see https://www.yumpu.com/fr/document/read/ ... re-perfect (sorry, it's in French)
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Schneider wrote: 17 Jul 2020, 21:00 Yep Octo, brilliant idea: see https://www.yumpu.com/fr/document/read/ ... re-perfect (sorry, it's in French)
Well, this is a contemporary stuff on Windows! :lol:
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Thanks OCTO. Very nostalgic times ..
Later there was a PC version with Klaus. And .... after Klaus' death, the program also died.
The website no longer exists (Scoretec).
I think the latest version was 7.5 and it was good!
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Does anyone still use MusiXTeX? I didn’t think so until I realized that the documentation (http://icking-music-archive.org/softwar ... sixdoc.pdf) was updated in January …
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Look at this old thing from 20 years ago. It's amazing how things have changed since then.
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I know that! Train for “transport”, speeding quaver for “fast note entry” etc. :D
However Finale Allegro 98 had less colorful icons …
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benwiggy wrote: 18 Jul 2020, 07:42 Look at this old thing from 20 years ago.
I think we can think about 32 years now, this "one measure" was legendary:
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I didn't know that Sibelius 7 was the initial release of the software, back in 1986. After that, Sibelius 6 was released! And not so less advanced output:
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