Tonescape works in Windows Vista!

Hello all,

I finally broke down and bought an
up-to-date laptop, something which
i've been wanting to do for a long time
(and should have done, long ago).

Anyway, the new box runs Windows Vista
Home Premium service pack 1, and to
my surprise and delight, Tonescape runs
on it, and beautifully too!

I tried installing Tonescape on other
people's Vista computers before and it
didn't work, so i thought that was that.
But it does run on Vista very well.
Here was the problem:

Tonescape relies on Microsoft .Net
Framework 1.1. During the installation,
it will search your computer, and if you
don't have .Net 1.1, Tonescape will ask
if you want to install a copy of it from
our website.

Vista comes packaged with .Net Framework 2.0.
When i installed Tonescape on my own new
machine, i clicked "OK" thru the whole
installation and installed the .Net 1.1
along with the .Net 2.0 that i already had.

After that, clicking on the Tonescape icon
seemed to launch Tonescape at first, but
then an error dialog opened, and after
closing that, clicking the Tonescape icon
did nothing. This was what i had experienced
before, on OPC (other people's computers).

But after having shut down my machine, and
then rebooting later on, i tried Tonescape
again, and voila, it opened up perfectly,
and played the sample .tonescape pieces
perfectly too. And with Vista's enhanced
graphics, it looks better than ever.

So, i was afraid before that Tonescape was
really obsolete now because i thought that
it would run only on Windows XP, but now i
can state absolutely that it will run on both
XP and Vista. So for all of you out there
who are running Vista, you can go for it!

My new project now is to figure out how to
get Tonescape happening under Linux and BSD.

:)

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com/tonescape.aspx
Tonescape microtonal music software

Good news. I was thinking about upgrading
to Vista finally and Tonescape was one of the
apps I was worried about losing.

-Carl

At 03:19 PM 5/8/2008, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I finally broke down and bought an
>up-to-date laptop, something which
>i've been wanting to do for a long time
>(and should have done, long ago).
>
>Anyway, the new box runs Windows Vista
>Home Premium service pack 1, and to
>my surprise and delight, Tonescape runs
>on it, and beautifully too!
>
>I tried installing Tonescape on other
>people's Vista computers before and it
>didn't work, so i thought that was that.
>But it does run on Vista very well.
>Here was the problem:
>
>Tonescape relies on Microsoft .Net
>Framework 1.1. During the installation,
>it will search your computer, and if you
>don't have .Net 1.1, Tonescape will ask
>if you want to install a copy of it from
>our website.
>
>Vista comes packaged with .Net Framework 2.0.
>When i installed Tonescape on my own new
>machine, i clicked "OK" thru the whole
>installation and installed the .Net 1.1
>along with the .Net 2.0 that i already had.
>
>After that, clicking on the Tonescape icon
>seemed to launch Tonescape at first, but
>then an error dialog opened, and after
>closing that, clicking the Tonescape icon
>did nothing. This was what i had experienced
>before, on OPC (other people's computers).
>
>But after having shut down my machine, and
>then rebooting later on, i tried Tonescape
>again, and voila, it opened up perfectly,
>and played the sample .tonescape pieces
>perfectly too. And with Vista's enhanced
>graphics, it looks better than ever.
>
>So, i was afraid before that Tonescape was
>really obsolete now because i thought that
>it would run only on Windows XP, but now i
>can state absolutely that it will run on both
>XP and Vista. So for all of you out there
>who are running Vista, you can go for it!
>
>
>My new project now is to figure out how to
>get Tonescape happening under Linux and BSD.
>
>:)
>
>
>-monz
>http://tonalsoft.com/tonescape.aspx
>Tonescape microtonal music software
>
>
>
>

>
> My new project now is to figure out how to
> get Tonescape happening under Linux and BSD.
>
But not under Mac OS? Ever?

still hoping...
jn

Hi jn,

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "jnylenius" <jnylenius@...>
wrote:

> > My new project now is to figure out how to
> > get Tonescape happening under Linux and BSD.
> >
> But not under Mac OS? Ever?
>
> still hoping...
> jn

Well ... i *do* plan to get some form of Tonescape working
in Linux someday -- probably not a clone of the full-blown
Windows version, more likely some kind of plug-in to other
Linux audio software. And since Mac OS-X is fundamentally
BSD (which is also descended from Unix), it shouldn't be
hard to port the Linux version over to Mac.

Meanwhile, i've been exploring virtual operating systems
a lot for the past 5 weeks. So as soon as i decide which
flavor of Linux i want to install on my new laptop, the
next project is to try installing Tonescape into a virtual
Windows Vista running in VirtualBox under Linux, and see
if it works.

If it does, then that would be the ideal way for Mac and
Linux users to work with Tonescape, because they would
have the complete Windows version with all the functionality.
The only drawback is that to run Windows legally, they
still have to buy a retail copy of it.

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com/tonescape.aspx
Tonescape microtonal music software