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I was recently cleaning our my Band in 3 Boxes (too many disks for one box) and I came accross a few of these supplementary disks. Perhaps a bit of nostalgia from, I think, 2000 or 2001.  My, how times have changed.
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Keith
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Not me my senior friend, but I do have version 9 somewhere. Now if I had discovered this forum a year or so earlier I would indeed have an older version. I guees that means I may be the senior in this discussion.   Later,
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Somewhee around here I've got Band in a Box complete installation files from old versions when the entire thing fit onto two floppies...
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What Mac said!
I also remember getting a 3.5" floppy UPDATE/patch at least once (I think a few times in the early DOS days) in the mail at PG's expense without asking, calling, or knowing there was one available!
I knew from then on it was going to be a great customer experience with PG.
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I’m not that old but I remember seeing something like that on a rerun  My TV at the time was an Atari How come my nose is longer 
Whenever I get something stuck in the back of my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer.
It's called the Heineken Maneuver.
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Somewhee around here I've got Band in a Box complete installation files from old versions when the entire thing fit onto two floppies...
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Mac,
Is there any truth to the rumor that you actually used the "Abacus" version of BIAB?
Yes I can duck very well sir, thank you!
Later,
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I've still got BIAB version 7 on a couple of floppies. It was bundled with PTPA version 1 on a single floppy! But extra Styles? I don't even remember how I got hold of BIAB in the first place. I was still in my computer music infancy. I don't think I even had a GM soundcard at that point. (Even I fell victim to the fallacy of "BIAB's cheesy sound.")
I did have a copy of Passport Master Tracks Pro, a great MIDI sequencer, into which I learned to copy and paste MIDI tracks from BIAB for editing, which was the seed of what I do now with BIAB and Reason. Bob Norton still raves about MTP. Somewhere I still have some 50 to 80 Mb drives around with some pretty good MIDI files from that time. I wasn't bright enough to back everything up to floppies.
"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."
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I'll admit... I remember. I mentioned in a recent post that I started on Version 5 and got my Version 6 upgrade on 5 1/4 inch floppies (still got 'em). Stopped there - until I bought 2012.5 a couple of weeks ago...
My only other music program was - Master Tracks Pro...
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Mac,
Is there any truth to the rumor that you actually used the "Abacus" version of BIAB?
Yes I can duck very well sir, thank you!
Later,
No abacus version, but I believe a slide rule had to factor into the initial software development cycle somewhere...
Joel
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If any person is brave enough to mention the words "Stone Tablets" they'd better be able to run, duck & weave. Mac's an old hand with firearms.
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Keith
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If any person is brave enough to mention the words "Stone Tablets" they'd better be able to run, duck & weave. Mac's an old hand with firearms.
Are you suggesting that Mac is as old as Moses? 
I remember well the days that Band-In-A-Box was one of the very few music applications running on an IBM PC. It seemed that Macintosh, with MOTU, and so forth was the only way to go to record music. I actually had to write my own low-level software interface (not quite qualified to be called "drivers" yet) for the IBM PCM audio card. What a pain! Microsoft Windows 3.0 was a godsend; and who could beat that awesome "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme?
Joel
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Band In Box not made for TI-99/4A, so Ugg not have early version. Ugg code notes in TI Basic, though.
Ugg not like.
Abacus and slide rule much better for Ugg's music career.
Best, Tom SmithWin10/64 • i7-8700K • 24 GB RAM BIAB 2025 • Reaper 7 • Izotope MPS AKG C1000S • IK iRig I/O Pro
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mac lived 900 years
mac lived 900 years
who calls that livin' when no gal will give in
to no man who's 900 years
It ain't necessarily so
It ain't necessarily so
The things that you're liable
To read in the Bible,
It ain't necessarily so.
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Musica est vita
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I was gettin old when I bought my first BIAB this past March! What does that mean for me? I guess BIAB 2025.5 will be on my bucket list.
Todd
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OH, and maybe I will have a forum title by then instead of my "________"
Todd
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Somewhere I have BiaB disks for the Atari/ST, Mac with a Motorola CPU and PC DOS. When I started selling my aftermarket styles in 1992, I offered my styles either on 3.5" or 5.25" floppy diskettes! It was all mail-order back then, as the Internet wasn't even a dream for most people, and the first Windows version of BiaB hadn't come out yet. The program has grown up with the computer industry, and has gone from its humble beginnings to a very powerful piece of software. I've seen a couple of competitors to BiaB come and go, or hang on by a thread with a small portion of the software auto-accompaniment market. PG has stayed ahead of the pack by being innovative. Insights and incites by Notes ♫ Brand new 2012.5 updates from Norton Music:- 2 new style disks for Band-in-a-Box
- 2 new free (with a purchase) fancy intro/ending disks for Real Band and other DAW's
- The Ultimate Gospel Fake Disk
- The Real Rock Fake Disk (plenty of classic rock in this one)
- The Beatles Fake Disk
- And an updated Christmas Fake Disk
Hundreds of Free .sgu and .mp3 demos for the above at: http://www.nortonmusic.com
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I still have version BIAB version 6 on CD plus manual and styles on rigid 1.25 mbyte floppies. As these drives were omitted from PCs some time ago, I converted the styles to a CD Disk just in case. I have never had to use them.
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I still have a DOS version running on a Compaq III portable (amber screen and all) with a Turtle Beach card, and Stacker to compress the 5MB disk to look like 10 !!
Jan - 12 Core AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
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Stacker!
Now there is a program I haven't thought about or used in a LONG time. I use to swear by it, along with Multi-Edit (which I STILL swear by) and a few other moldy oldies
Larry
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I used to use Stacker (to double the size of my Seagate RLL hard drive on my Kaypro PC).
I didn't use Multi-Edit, but I did use a nice TSR editor called QEdit, which eventually became "The Semware Editor", which I still use to this day, even though it hasn't been updated in probably 10 years or so.
I didn't start using BIAB until version 8, where I bought the basic Pro package. As soon as version 9 came out, I went for the MegaPak (which was the most you could get back then, other than the EverythingPak) and have upgraded to every version and half version ever since. Nothing compares to these PGMusic programs. Nothing!
I have installed all of the versions (for nostalgia more than anything), but some of the installers won't work with 64-bit Windows, so I have to do them in an XP virtual machine. Windows 7 XP-mode works fine for that.
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Questo è il link alla nuova versione 2025.
Di seguito i link per scaricare il pacchetti di lingua italiana aggiornati per Band-in-a-Box e RealBand, anche per chi avesse già comprato la nuova versione in inglese.
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