bitflipper
Try this one.

WTF? It looks like an Italian shopping site.

bapu

bapu
I've purchased 15 different versions.

PA3 - PA9
XL - 8PE. 

Registered PA3 in March of 1996.
 
Prior to that I used Voyetra SP Gold and before that I used some no brand sequencer that required a dongle.

 
up to 19 now. X1, X2, X3 and Platinum.
 
At 20 do I get a free juan?

You missed 8.5 and now were up to version 21.0.1.254. Cakewalk has always had an internal version number independent of the release number.

TomHelvey

bitflipper
Try this one.

WTF? It looks like an Italian shopping site.

It used to be a Cakewalk user/fan page sort of thing, the work of a fellow Cakewalk user named Hans Van Even if I remember correctly. Haven't heard of him in ages. I guess he let go of the domain name.

Web archive seems to have some of it. I sent Hans some of the older stuff when he made the site. I managed to fire up an old Cakewalk DOS version I still had and find a couple of ads in ancient magazines.
 
copy and paste address below, seems impossible to get link working directly.
http://web.archive.org/web/20101022191011/http://www.cakewalknet.com/index.php
 
 

Here's an interesting interview.

Hi there:)
 
I started with Shareware Version 0.9x, can't remember! After 2.0, you had to send back the Version before, so I don't have that old stuff any more, just the Boxed Cakewalk For DOS 5.0, originally packed, I have not opened it, cause i then bought Cakewalk for Windows 1.0! What was then? Pro Audio, Sonar, Sonar X, I think more than 19 Versions!!!
 
Bassman.
P.S. My first Sequenzer was on Commodore 64, perhaps Steinberg Software. 30 years ago!

I thought the earliest Cakewalk was MIDI-only that you could sync to tape and ran on Commodore 64.  I know I used to have that and do that, but not real sure if the software was Cake.  I remember not being happy that I had to sacrifice a track on the 8-track (wow!) Tascam for sync.  And very much not happy rocking the spools back and forth to find that one bad note, cutting the tape and splicing out the bad spot with leader on both sides, run that through on erase, splice the tape back together and hope there wasn't a blip when it flew by the heads.  Oh, oh, and breaking out the alignment tape and the oscilloscope.  Those were the days!  THE WORLD MAY BE GOING TO HELL, BUT AUDIO RECORDING HAS IMMEASURABLY IMPROVED.  Be thankful.  Folks who complain that Sonar crashes occasionally have NO IDEA .....

mudgel

bapu

bapu
I've purchased 14 different versions.

PA4 - PA9
XL - 8.5PE. 

Registered PA4 in March of 1996.
 
Prior to that I used Voyetra SP Gold and before that I used some no brand sequencer that required a dongle.

 
up to 19 now. X1, X2, X3 and Platinum. Skipped SONAR 2.
 
At 20 do I get a free juan?

You missed 8.5 and now were up to version 21.0.254. Cakewalk has always had an internal version number independent of the release number.

I am still at 19. I did get 8.5. I did not get PA3 (according to my store profile)
 
 

GregGraves
I thought the earliest Cakewalk was MIDI-only that you could sync to tape and ran on Commodore 64.  

I don't think there was ever a C64 version of Cakewalk. AFAIK Cakewalk was an MS-DOS application from Day 1. But it could be synced to tape. (Something I never did because the po' folk on my side of the tracks could not afford 8-track machines like you rich people up on the hill. For me it was a TEAC 3340S plus a Pioneer 2-track for bounces and final mixdown.)
 
Maybe you're thinking of Steinberg's Pro 16 sequencer, which did run on a C64. 

And the Steinberg vs. TwelveTone debate rages on.