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From: abrown@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Allen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: Re: Seeking music program which prints scores.
Message-ID: <38260004@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 91 23:45:00 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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> DMCS uses traditional musical notation and will print scores (it
> takes a long time!)
>	| Mike Lewis.    cbmuk!cbmuka!lewism!lewism

I bought it for $80.  It is doing what I need.  I am able to enter the
music score and have it play the music so that I can learn how to sing
the song.  It takes me about three hours to enter one song.  (The
first song took much longer than that.)

I am running on a 25MHz 68030 going to a HP Deskjet+, so it prints
plenty fast.  But it only prints one line of music per page so it
wastes a lot of paper.  Because of that I don't print anything
anymore.

It is not a robust piece of software.  I would rate it as "pretty good
for Public Domain".  Unfortunately it is not Public Domain.  About one
third of the times when I quit from DMCS it leaves my system totally
frozen.  No response to mouse or keyboard (except it does respond to
the Vulcan nerve pinch).  And on those times when DMCS does return
control back to AmigaDo*, if I then run DMCS again it crashes the
Amiga every time.  So it seems that the only safe thing to do after
running DMCS is to reboot the computer.  Tacky!

There seems to be no way to start DMCS from the CLI.

I wonder if they shipped me rev 1.0 software.  I know no way to ask it
for the rev.  And it doesn't seem to be anywhere in the documentation.
Unprofessional.  Of course these are just my opinions.
--
  Allen Brown  abrown@cv.hp.com or abrown%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com
	    or hplabs!hpcvca!abrown or "Hey you!"
  Not representing my employer.
  It's not that I'm afraid to die.  I just don't want to be there when
  it happens. ---Woody Allen