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That is the reason why i still use Win98se. I've got WinMe on my notebook and I think it sucks. The only good thing in it is the fact it can use WDM drivers, which in cakewalk products allow a very little latency. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sottilaro" <sine@zerocrossing.net> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 1:58 AM Subject: Re: O.T. Computers > No offense taken. I have Macs and PCs and drive a Golf. I'm not saying Apple > is without sin, but when I hear that every time you add hardware to your PC > you've got to get a new serial number to run Windows XP, I cringe. >That's > pretty damn evil. I like this debate, but it's a lot like religion. > > CarlJacobson@cakewalk.com wrote: > > > Hey I drive a Saturn and use a PC? What does that mean? > > > > Mark I meant no disrespect by my last message. That whole "evil empire" > > thing just gets under my skin sometimes...maybe I've read one to many Ayn > > Rand books... > > > > and for this question... > > > If I had a peice of gear that would only run on OS 9, and would never have > > it's drivers upgraded ever, what would you recomend to house the beast? What > > would be the cheapest option? What would I get from a more expensive unit, > > considering that I will never be able to upgrade it? What kind of software > > will 'never go away'? > > > > The gear in question is a Korg Oasys card. Probably the best price/features > > deal ever - more powerful than a Digi farm card, latency down to 1.5 >ms, > > ASIO, ADAT I/O, comes with more than half the Triton sample sound set, does > > Z1 style synthesis, awesome AD/DA, but no support, no drivers, ever. > > > > Well, here's the deal. I've got an Aurora Fuse video capture card. Was the > best I could afford at the time. Aurora has stated that they will NEVER write > an OSX driver for it. They will give me their Igniter card... if I give up > another $500. Frankly, at that point, I'd sooner get a DV camera and to DV, > since I'm using Final Cut Pro anyway, and have the Igniter RT card at work. > > So.... When I need to capture analog video, or record in DP3, I reboot into OS > 9. It's a pretty good OS, all in all. Sure, OSX is better, but it's still > very new. I'm impressed at how little I've got to launch the "Classic > environment" these days. If you really need a Mac box, I'd look for a used > high end G3 or low end G4 and just stick to OS 9.2 > > Mark >