On Tue, 05 May 2015 00:04:49 +0200, Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And with things like GCDMaster no longer available
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gcdmaster/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/gcdmaster/
There have been whole HW platforms that are no longer around (like the Atari ST with some of the very best MIDI sequencing) because the SW developers were not supported.
Actually it's a HW issue and not a SW issue that most people stopped using the Atari. The reason for me to switch to Linux. As an example, what monitor would you use, if your Atari monitor should break? Only very old PC monitors are slow enough for usage with the Atari ST. The software and hardware developer scene in Europe never lacked of being supported, neither the once who developed for free as in beer, nor those who get payed. A lot of people hoped that after TT and Falcon Atari would continue, especially the QL emulator users. The company Atari likely suffered from the well supporting scene. I for example never bought an Atari HDD instead I used a LACOM SCSI controller, I'm using a non-Atari Floppy drive and my 520 ST has got 4 MiB PC RAM. DIY replacing the TOS etc. were naturally. I'm missing such a huge and friendly community as there was for the Atari for Linux audio.
The biggest communities I ever experienced were the C64 and Atari ST HW and SW
scenes. The problem simply is that Commodore and Atari discontinued. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
