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Subject:Why No Mac Posted by: TommyRay Date:8/9/2000 9:33:00 PM As you can tell by the "topic" I'm sort of new at this. I have a Mac and would love to use the Acid program for my composition purposes. I have loaded Virtual PC onto my Mac in hopes that I could use it in that manner. However, I'm having problems getting the program to play through my speakers which are attached to the Mac through ProTools. It would all be simpler is Acid were in a Mac format as well as PC. Can you recommend an Acid family member who might be compatible with my Mac? Thanks for the consid
Subject:Re: Why No Mac Reply by: Dick_Withers Date:8/12/2000 3:09:00 PM Ha, give it up! These guys believe they're doing their part to help rid the world of Macs. It's going to take a lot more than Sound Forge to do that.
Subject:Re: Why No Mac Reply by: TerryCarroll Date:8/14/2000 7:47:00 PM Dick_Withers wrote: >>Ha, give it up! These guys believe they're doing their part to help >>rid the world of Macs. >>It's going to take a lot more than Sound Forge to do that. Oh, please! I get so tired of this ridiculous posturing on either side of the Mac/Windows divide. Nobody, not even Bill Gates, is trying to rid the world of Macs! They are different. Period. What Sonic Foundry has done is recognize that difference, and they decided that the difference warrants specialization. I have worked on both platforms, and the thing that I have always found frustrating is software that is designed for one platform and then is adapted to the other. Sonic Foundry products work so well because they are not Mac applications that have been gerry-rigged to work on Windows. Mac dominates the audio/video/graphic world. That isn't going away. But there are plenty of us who are Windows users who cherish the performance offered us by Sonic Foundry, despite the gloating of Mac devotees.

Subject:Why No Mac

Posted by: TommyRay

Date:8/9/2000 9:33:00 PM

As you can tell by the "topic" I'm sort of new at this. I
have a Mac and would love to use the Acid program for my
composition purposes. I have loaded Virtual PC onto my Mac
in hopes that I could use it in that manner. However, I'm
having problems getting the program to play through my
speakers which are attached to the Mac through ProTools. It
would all be simpler is Acid were in a Mac format as well as
PC. Can you recommend an Acid family member who might be
compatible with my Mac? Thanks for the consid

Subject:Re: Why No Mac

Reply by: Dick_Withers

Date:8/12/2000 3:09:00 PM

Ha, give it up! These guys believe they're doing their part to help
rid the world of Macs.
It's going to take a lot more than Sound Forge to do that.

Subject:Re: Why No Mac

Reply by: TerryCarroll

Date:8/14/2000 7:47:00 PM

Dick_Withers wrote:
>>Ha, give it up! These guys believe they're doing their part to help
>>rid the world of Macs.
>>It's going to take a lot more than Sound Forge to do that.

Oh, please! I get so tired of this ridiculous posturing on either
side of the Mac/Windows divide. Nobody, not even Bill Gates, is
trying to rid the world of Macs! They are different. Period. What
Sonic Foundry has done is recognize that difference, and they decided
that the difference warrants specialization. I have worked on both
platforms, and the thing that I have always found frustrating is
software that is designed for one platform and then is adapted to the
other. Sonic Foundry products work so well because they are not Mac
applications that have been gerry-rigged to work on Windows. Mac
dominates the audio/video/graphic world. That isn't going away. But
there are plenty of us who are Windows users who cherish the
performance offered us by Sonic Foundry, despite the gloating of Mac
devotees.