I thought a few of you might want to take a trip down memory lane. A friend of mine walked into my office yesterday to show me an unsold version Cakewalk 1.0 complete with 5.25 disks. Very cool...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I can't see it, but that is cool. I can remember playing video games like Joust(remember the ostriches?) that were on 5.25 floppy on my Atari 800XL.

Here's what was needed to run Cakewalk Pro Audio 9:
 
MINIMUM
Windows 95/98: Pentium 200MHz, 64Mb RAM. Windows NT: Pentium 300MHz, 128Mb, Service Pack 5.
 
RECOMMENDED
Windows 95/98: Pentium 300MHz, 128Mb RAM.
 
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec99/articles/cakewalk.htm
 

Does anyone know of a definitive list of CW products, and the year they were released? Even Wikipedia, which usually has tons of info on stuff like this, only has vague references to different CW products.
 
I was using Cakewalk when it was still a DOS program, so I will be interested to know exactly how we went from that to Sonar Platinum.

It was such a pretty puuuurple program wasn't it.b
 

I remember switching from Bars & Pipes Pro on my Amiga 4000 to Pro Audio 9 on a 500mhz PC...WOW! Real time sample playback and recording of multiple tracks...it was amazing! -S

That package has never been licensed...

I would try to install it. It probably works fine. 

I don't think you could install it without a computer from that era. One thing, it's rare to find a 3.5 inch floppy drive let alone a 5.25 floppy. 
 
It's cool that my first sequencer Dr T KCS , can still run it on a PC. There's a web site where they have all the old Atari software now as freeware. You need an XP computer, however, to run the Atari emulator STEem. I have an old stemwinder joystick and play Buggy Boy on it. 
I still have all my Atari 3.5 floppies with my seq. all. and sng. files. I never throw out my back ups :)  
http://tamw.atari-users.net/
 
Go to that page and look at the excellent list of 80's software we could only dream of owning all of it back then.,,all free now. You'll even find Cubase which I also owned but didn't like as much as KCS so never used it. 
 http://tamw.atari-users.net/cubase.htm
 
 
 
 
 

This thread got me looking at Tims page and then the Cubase page, Ya know, other than the GUI becoming better graphics. the options have not really changed much for piano roll editing have they? 30 years later and midi editing has improved very  very little. Put a smart tool on this editor from 30 years ago and you would have Sonars new version. 
 
 This track needs quantizing badly. Interesting reading the little history lesson they have posted too.