Hello guys,
Happy New year!
 
I too miss the old Cakewalk 3.01 - such a great program - i also don't have any need for the audio capabilities of todays software.
I have recently moved to Win7 64 and... oh boy... do i miss the old Cakewalk. I am willing to pay for a retrofit of 3.01 to work on win7 64bit.
I hope Cakewalk would make an anniversary CW 3.01 version release for win764 - next year! It's been 20 years guys, and 3.01 still has what we need.
 
Kindest Regards,
 
Andrew.

kitewiper
Hi there,
 
Im glad to tell U that i just tested the Cakewalk 3.01 on a PC running Windows 7 32-bit version. And everything worked perfect!
 
I have tested on a 64-bit system also, and that didn't work.
 
Kind regards
 
Pvk.

Hi everybody, and Happy Holidays to all.
 
Kitewiper, thanks for the feedback. It's good to know that CW3.01 will work under Win7, specially since I've read news that Microsoft will stop supporting WinXP some time in 2014.
 
Still, I want to again add my voice here to the apparent minority of CW3.01 users who long for some sort of retrofit that will allow us to continue using an old but not so tired workhorse of a program. To repeat myself, I would gladly pay a reasonable fee for a new copy of CW3.01 that is guaranteed to work on OS's from Win7 forward.
 
Best wishes to all,
 
DanZ

I've been a Cakewalk user since the time 12-Tone Systems had only a 1-horse engine. I still have my original 5-1/2 inch floppy installation disk. I currently use Cakewalk 3.01 with Windows XP-Pro in a big way and for me, it runs perfectly fine on that OS.
 
I'd love to see the company make an effort to address the requests of many of its loyal long-term users by updating the original CW3.01 so that it operates on Win7-64/32 and Win8 while keeping its original design and layout in tact as much as possible. (I love the dots....  etc) My Cakewalk 9 Pro Audio works fine on Win7-64 but CW3.01 is still my favorite program and I dearly miss having it on my Win7-64 machine. 
 
I'd also be very happy to pay a reasonable price for an updated version of the old CW3.01 that works on Win7-64.
 
ArtMat

I'm just opening up my QuickShot MIDI Composer again (after many years) but I must have thrown away the CakeWalk Home Studio 3.01 software that come with it when I cleaned out my old hardware and software a few months ago (I knew there was a reason I should never throw anything away!).
Would CakeWalk be willing to share that old software with me, or not object if a forum member does so ?  I have drives for all formats 5.25" (360k and 1.2m) and 3.5" (360k, 720k and 1.44m), but download would probably be easiest for all.  I'm the original owner (from new) of the QuickShot MIDI Composer which came with CakeWalk Home Studio 3.01.
Back in April 2011 Willy Jones mentioned that CakeWalk was "looking at ways to re-distribute some of our older products as downloads".
Be reassured that I won't need any support ... I have working computers back to the 286/386 versions, and operating systems including Windows 3 and up.
Many thanks !

Willy Jones [Cakewalk]

Copying the floppy to CD, etc. would only be a backup measure. The files would have to be copied back to a floppy for installation or recovery of the program, because the setup routine searches for files on drive a:. I tried running setup from a CD backup once, and got error messages to the effect of, "Can't find files on drive a:"

 
I would really hope that we didn't make the installers drive letter dependent (but I mean really who knows the 80's were crazy times).  If you copy the files onto a USB drive and don't have a floppy or a drive at all you can probably 'hack around' it by changing your drive mapping so the USB drive is A

 
I have two WinXP machines and they both have physical A drives. Since CW3.01 installed and works fine on both XP computers, I have no reason to doubt that it will work fine in Win7's XP mode. However! The problem there is that it will not install via the virtual environment under which the XP mode operates. Trust me! I've tried it a few times. An error message appears during the installation process indicating that the installer has a problem with the virtual A-drive.
 
The best scenario for me and lots of other 64-bit'ers would be to have a version installs and works on Win7-64.  But, if producing a 64-bit compatible version of the original CW3.01 software is completely out of the question, then implementing a different installation routine or installer that does not require the presence of a physical A-drive seems like a reasonable second request option which, if granted, would help us Win7 users out tremendously! Then we could, at least, install it and use it in the 32-bit environment of Win7's Virtual XP Mode.
 
In addition to being happy to pay a reasonable price for your time and efforts to roll out a 2014 version of the classic CW3.01 software with an installer that is not drive letter dependent, a stipulation that Cakewalk would not provide any support for the classic version would be happily accepted too. After all, we, as a community of users making this request, aren't neophytes.
 
What say you Cakewalk? Would you reopen the case to take another look at it and give it some more thought?
 
Thanks.    

USB floppy drives ....cheap... the obvious solution. We have one at work just for this reason, old applications for hardware that came on floppy in the mid 2000's still. 
 
http://www.newegg.ca/Prod...HVl4i:20140126041851:s

Why can't I get WordStar to work on Linux. I wish to run it on Linux because of windows weak security ;) I also have it on 5.25 inch floppy, will MicroPro rerelease this as I find myself unable to copy the application over to my hard drive. Oh sorry forgot to put this in plural to make it sound that more than 2 people want this :)
 
Thanks.
 
EDIT opps sorry wrong forums ;)
 
UPDATE Sorry but what you are asking is ridiculous as many have suggested. How much would you pay for an old version of Cake? $200 or are you hoping for bargain bucket prices? And only about 10 people might want this max, and maybe 1 person if it was $200. You are better off pleading for the source code to become free so that some generous soul may update the app. Or better still buy X3, where many "loyal customers" are at.

>>you can probably 'hack around' it by changing your drive mapping so the USB drive is A<<
 
You can do this from Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. Right click the drive and change the letter to A.  Tho I'm not sure you will need to do that if the files are copied correctly.
 
It's been years since I've done it but I think it's possible to burn a CD from a floppy and still be able to install from it.

I paid $500.00 Australian dollars for my Cakewalk Pro Ver 3.0 on floppy disk.
I paid for and upgraded to Ver 5 & 9.
Cake 3 was still the best for my purposes.  I am one of those musicians who can actually program a MIDI file.
Pro 3 is all i need.
My floppy and backup disks are stuffed.
The USB drive I bought only wants to re-format the floppies (I think it has issues - won't read any floppies I have).
I downloaded a so called version 3 from the net and all it wants to do is read from a:drive.
I would gladly pay a small amount to have Pro 3 bootable from CD preferably, and also USB.
Ya See, I am going so far back I want to be able to use my MIDI interface that came with Showplay 2 (Pride corp).
I want to use Cake 3.0 on an XP notebook running Virtual pc and a stable version of win 98 SE.
How backward am I????  I paid a lot of money for all this software/hardware and it worked fine till the 'World' wanted me to update all the time.  This stuff worked for me all those years ago and I want to be able to use it all again.
Paul Ewing.
Pissed off Australian Midi file programmer and musician.

did you try sourcing an equally ancient pc/laptop? ya never know...