Hi Oz,

A few more comments ...


--- In tonescape_denhaag@yahoogroups.com, "monz" <joemonz@...> wrote:

> --- In tonescape_denhaag@yahoogroups.com, Ozan Yarman
> <ozanyarman@> wrote:

> > My Guest OS is Windows XP 2002 Service Pack 3. I even
> > enabled DirectX shaders for Parallels Desktop VM.
>
> You're doing all the right stuff there.
>
>
> > If only we had a clue what is lacking to make Tonescape
> > work... I am currently migrating everything else from my
> > old computer to my Mac. Nothing has caused any problem
> > so far. All the other programs that worked in Windows ME
> > work under the guest OS on my Mac smoothly. Since installing
> > the two components above improved the situation, we seem
> > to be on the right track.


Please be aware that Windows ME and Windows XP are
vastly different operating systems.

Microsoft originally created Windows as an application
that ran on top of DOS. With Windows 95 things changed
a bit: the user could still boot into DOS if needed,
but the OS was designed to boot directly into Windows,
and most users of Windows 95/98/ME never used DOS at all.
Members of the DOS-based Windows family, in chronological
order, were:

1985 Windows 1.0 (the very first Microsoft Windows)
1987 Windows 2.0
1992 Windows 3.1
1995 Windows 95 (i.e., 4.0)
1998 Windows 98 (i.e., 4.1)
2000 Windows ME (i.e., 4.9)

see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_9x


The NT family uses an entirely different kernel, and
was a fork off of Microsoft's work with IBM on OS/2,
which it was hoping would supplant DOS. Important
members of the NT family are:

1993 Windows NT 3.1 (the original NT OS)
1996 Windows NT 4.0
2000 Windows 2000 (i.e., NT 5.0)
2001 Windows XP (i.e., NT 5.1)
2007 Windows Vista (i.e., NT 6.0)

Microsoft used version number 3.1 for the original NT
to match it with the contemporary DOS-based Windows 3.1.

As you can see from the version number 5.0, Windows 2000
was the real successor to Windows 98 -- Microsoft
never intended to release another DOS-based Windows
after 98, and ME was only a sort of temporary fill-in.
Many users (including me) never thought it was very good.

Windows 2000 was intended for the business community,
and XP was the version of NT designed for home use.
It has proved to be wildly successful, and in fact
is still much more widely used than Vista.

see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_nt


> Actually, i'm currently in the process of negotiating
> to convince him to change some aspects of the Lattice
> display so that Tonescape will work on lower-spec hardware,
> so that even if it won't look so good, at least it will work.

What i really intend to do here is to incorporate some
other optional video modes, which require lesser hardware.
We designed Tonescape to look really good, and it seems
that it is that which is causing all of the problems.


As i said before, the problems are almost always due
to incompatible versions of DirectX. DirectX 9.0c
is the one you need, but there are other minor
version numbers after that, and if you don't have
exactly the one we had when we created Tonescape,
it won't work. I do intend to do something about this,
but for now, that's the situation.


-monz
http://tonalsoft.com/tonescape.aspx
Tonescape microtonal music software