And Now For Something Rather Different...

• Programs running under dosemu (an MS-DOS emulator)
  • Sequencer Plus Gold and Sideman D/TX from Voyetra
  • M/pc a beautiful port of M 2.0, also from Voyetra (unavailable)
  • the MIDI programming environment RAVEL by Jim Binkley
  • Cool Shoes Software's excellent Drummer 2.0 (no longer available)
  • MusicBox and other algorithmic MIDI programs from John Dunn
  • Temporal Acuity Products' Music Printer Plus 4.1, one of the best notation packages for MS-DOS
  • Jesus Villena's Convert 1.4 is an excellent format conversion utility especially good for working with various commercial sampler formats (e.g., Ensoniq ASR, Yamaha TX16W, Kurzweil K2000, etc.)

• Programs running under the demo version of Executor (a Macintosh emulator for Linux)
  • CMask Csound score generation environment
  • CornBucket granular synthesis score generator for Csound
  • Phonogramme I think you just have to see this one...(This page is in French)
  • SoundHack is Tom Erbe's famed package for soundfile analysis/resynthesis and more...
  • Syd very neat software synthesizer from Jim Bumgardner

• Programs running under UAE, an Amiga emulator for UNIX, with support for full stereo sound (4 x 8bit channels)
  • Jonas Minnberg reported (Sept 1998) that sound emulation is perfect and that he uses the software to run Delitracker with no problems.
  • I have experimented with the Cloanto: Amiga Forever package. Sound support is good, I was able to run some trackers (Octamed, ProTracker) and some MIDI applications.

  E-UAE is an experimental development track for UAE that is based on the WinUAE enhancements, including sound support extensions.

• Programs running under STEEM, an Atari ST emulator with MIDI and sound support
  • Electronic Cow formerly commercial MIDI & audio software for the Atari, now all freeware
  • Tim's Atari MIDI World large collection of excellent Atari MIDI software, most of which runs well under Xsteem (the Linux version of STEEM)
  • Ultimate TOS Software Index includes a hefty section of audio & MIDI programs

  Hatari is another Atari emulation system, but it utilizes technology from the UAE project.

• Commodore C64/128 emulators
  • Sidplay2 emulates the soundchip of the Commodore C64 (Hey, it works, what more can I say ?)
  • Zsid a C64 music player with FLTK interface

• Programs running under Tim Mann's xtrs, a TRS-80 emulator with sound support
  • Update 10 Sept 2000: Tim reports that "...all programs that play sound through the cassette port or the Model 4 speaker work. The Orchestra 85/90 hardware is emulated too, and the software for it works well and will play all the songs I've tried."

• Programs running under WINE (a Windows emulator)
  • See the WINE Applications Support page for a list of sound and multimedia applications that will run under current versions of WINE.