Thank you for all this information monz. It appears that the problem
is related to the MDX and the correct DirectX version. I believe I am
close to making Tonescape work. I just need the two components above.

Oz.

On Jun 27, 2008, at 1:19 AM, monz wrote:

> 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
>