Re: Blown away with DP
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:35 pm
My fav Atari was, by far, the STacy. AWESOME early laptop. Damn those idiot Tramels. They were sitting on platinum mine.
I mean, c',mon!
I mean, c',mon!
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Re: Blown away with DP
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:36 pm
Can you say: BUILT IN MIDI PORTS!
Re: Blown away with DP
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:52 pm
The Stacy4. Tempting, even today!
4mb RAM and 40mb HD, which was huge for the day.
4mb RAM and 40mb HD, which was huge for the day.
Re: Blown away with DP
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:01 pm
And SCSI. Those big ass SCSI connectors. lol
Re: Blown away with DP
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:04 pm
Yup.
With SCSI and MIDI, that thing would've been a dream for me as an upgrade from the STe with my little-ass 9" monochrome monitor.
Instead I went Apple and brought the wrath of 20 years worth of BS upon myself. If I could do it all over again...
With SCSI and MIDI, that thing would've been a dream for me as an upgrade from the STe with my little-ass 9" monochrome monitor.
Instead I went Apple and brought the wrath of 20 years worth of BS upon myself. If I could do it all over again...
Re: Blown away with DP
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:21 pm
I stayed with the Atari as long as I could. Once OMS went belly up (thanks, Gibson) the end was neigh and the search for a decent DAW was on. Studio Vision Pro filled that space until a student brought a bootlegged copy of DP over to try. I immediately hated and bought it and paid for all the upgrades for about 18 months before actual using it. i could see the potential and supported the company efforts. Now i'm glad I did.
Also, can I just say that Dt. T SUCKED! especially on a dot matrix printer.
Also, can I just say that Dt. T SUCKED! especially on a dot matrix printer.
Re: Blown away with DP
Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:34 pm
Good on ya man.
I saw DP at the Melbourne Music Show around 1996-7 and figured I ought to at least aim for it. Bought a G3 with OS9 in 1999, taking out my biggest loan ever, my last-possible one.
Unfortunately I blew the loan on RAM and 3 new Macs before the store caved 2 years later and allowed me to try its own PCI-324 card, and suddenly I could hit the record button without the Mac freezing, but by then it was too-late. The remaining loan money was meant for guitars and other critical gear and I therefore embarked upon this journey, that I still haven't completed, of getting the right gear to the point that I can complete my projects and do them justice. Being ripped-off and obsolescence have combined to thwart my progress to a ridiculous degree, hence the fact that I still have nothing to show music-wise since the ATARI days. Ridiculous!
I reinstalled MacOS 39 times through that period of buying $2000 worth of RAM and 3 new Macs. If I'd known about and been a member here I'm sure the story would've been a whole lot different.
Funny, in all these years, I've never actually told this little story. Hopefully it explains a lot.
I saw DP at the Melbourne Music Show around 1996-7 and figured I ought to at least aim for it. Bought a G3 with OS9 in 1999, taking out my biggest loan ever, my last-possible one.
Unfortunately I blew the loan on RAM and 3 new Macs before the store caved 2 years later and allowed me to try its own PCI-324 card, and suddenly I could hit the record button without the Mac freezing, but by then it was too-late. The remaining loan money was meant for guitars and other critical gear and I therefore embarked upon this journey, that I still haven't completed, of getting the right gear to the point that I can complete my projects and do them justice. Being ripped-off and obsolescence have combined to thwart my progress to a ridiculous degree, hence the fact that I still have nothing to show music-wise since the ATARI days. Ridiculous!
I reinstalled MacOS 39 times through that period of buying $2000 worth of RAM and 3 new Macs. If I'd known about and been a member here I'm sure the story would've been a whole lot different.
Funny, in all these years, I've never actually told this little story. Hopefully it explains a lot.