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From: dtw@k.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Deluxe Music Construction Set
Message-ID: <739@k.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 20:36:39 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  2 20:36:39 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Feb-86 02:20:38 EST
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Electronic Arts' Deluxe Music Construction Set has received good reviews in
Mac magazines, in part because it is relatively inexpensive--$50 retail.
Potential buyers who only have a 128K Mac should be warned about this
program.

The reviewers and the program's documentation claim that DMCS will run on a
128K Mac.  In a sense this is true: it boots on a small Mac and a couple of
the small demos that come with the program can be played.  Unfortunately,
the program is nearly useless on a small Mac.  Entering notes is an
extremely slow process, with delays up to 30 seconds per note!  Attempting
to play a score without first saving it to disk is almost certain to cause
it to be lost.  Some very short scores can cause the program to run out of
memory and crash the Mac.  I entered the first five measures of the "Vision
Fugitive XVI" by Prokofiev that appeared in the Feb. issue of Keyboard,
saved the score, and then played it.  The program ran out of memory,
although the "Memory Usage" window showed over 26K free prior to playing the
measures.  I cannot load those five measures and play them without a bomb.
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