Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

On Saturday 19 June 2010, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:

[...]
>The Steinberg dongle seems to be ok, since it's from the 80ies or
>beginning 90ies and was used for several years without getting broken.
>But exactly because it's that old I fear it could break one day.
>
>I 'guess' that I also could get cracked versions of Cubase for the
>Atari, but while the dongle version is 100% stable and the latest
>version ever made for the Atari, there aren't cracks for the latest
>version and the cracks I know were '99%' stable.

Since most of those dongles back then were themselves protected by grinding
the part numbers off the chip, that damage to the expoxy-B covering is
probably largely responsible for their short life, both from the instant
heating caused by the grinding, but also from moisture migrating into the
assembly through the damaged epoxy-B coating.

>For Windows there are dongle hacks available by torrent, they do work
>'99,9999999999999%' ok and can be used with cracks, 'I heard'. Dunno if
>they would work with bought software too, this might be interesting for
>people who bought the original and wish to use it on wine.
>
>I 'guess' I could get all I need for Windows as a crack, but I don't
>like cracks and I can't pay for legal versions and I don't wish to have
>USB dongles. Btw. I don't like the 'philosophy' of Microsoft.
>While bus dongles using oldish gate chips, are less damageable, I don't
>trust USB micro controllers.

>When I was young I tuned my motorbikes and cracked software and used
>software other people cracked. Juvenile law isn't valid for me today,
>just one reason not to use cracks.

And when I was a juvenile, transistors had not been invented yet. ;-)

>While open sources might not be important to everybody, people also
>might not care about malign US major corporation, at least keeping our
>own slates clean is a reason to get Linux more capable for music too.

Naw, I'm not the least bit allergic to tweaking the M$ nose. :) Their
little 'easter eggs' that cause the loss of an important file that can only
be replaced by purchasing a new copy of the os, in this case NT-4.0, have
bit me enough times that I have no respect for M$ for about 20 years now.
My limited experience with XP showed that it did work, but never felt like a
true os to me, just patches to DOS. Their most stable was 95, it ran for 46
days at a time, till the tick counter rolled over. Reboot on day 45 and
everything was cool. I would have to assume that DOS-6.22 also suffered
from that, we had one of those that crashed about every month & a half but
never had the clues to point a finger at that. Just one of those things...

>2 cents,

Mine too. But I'd imagine the list people are about to police us, this is
sort of off topic. ;(

>Ralf
>

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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