I've just been browsing Download Boards > DAW Host Applications. I'm downloading DieHard's "Instant DAW" meanwhile.
OK, I'm new to this forum (which is the Best Forum in the World). I don't know when the Admin Gods started this thing, I'm a bit late to the party and I have to confess that for the last 15 years I have used Windows (weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, rivers will run red with blood etc) exclusvely and fairly successfully but without creating anything of substance like what I did in 99/00 on my Apple Macintosh G3.
I had installed and run DieHard’s instructions for Cubase 5.1 r1 which requires one to possess the original Cubase 5 install CD which I have.
Then I discovered a Cubase 5 image available for free download on this site which if used as instructed will install a complete unrestricted version of the last release of Cubase 5, without the need for a "pukka" copy of the original CD … it took a while for the penny to drop.
This is one of the wonderful "reasons of being" of this site. It dawned on me that it's OK to make software freely available for a "dead operating system" - ie Mac OS 9. (For now, until the capitalist lackeys catch up with us.)
My point - there are only three software downloads on the video software Download Board. I have a working copy of Premiere 6 (it doesn't need installing, not sure how that works) also 5.1c, and a whole load of other software I obtained at the time I bought my G3 new.
ie, thousands of pounds' worth of high-end software and utilities that I paid a nominal sum to the reseller for, as I had bought my machine from them. (They're still in business, amazingly, so there must be some kind of loophole that enables them to do this.)
At the time I grabbed whatever was going. I have a 7-CD collections from '99-01 under the headings of Graphics, Music/MIDI, Video, Web, Multimedia, Photo/Paint, Tools, Business (fetch the Comfy Chair), plus one CD with later software including PS6, Director 8, Quark 4.11 etc etc- applications near the end of their life under OS 9 I'm thinking. Hopefully they're not corrupt after al this time, although I've no reason to think this, OS 9.1 installed fine before I found this site.
So given that there are a few gaps on your Download Boards would it be worthwhile making them available?