Can Auricle run on a Macintosh in a DOS window?
Technically, yes; but practically NO! Which is to say there is no reason that the code can’t work on the Mac via the proper emulator. Its just that the necessary hardware resources The Auricle requires are simply not there. For example, The Auricle currently relies on the V24s MIDI Interface card (we are looking into a USB substitute). But neither the Mac nor any PCI IBM-PC cards have a ‘place’ for it. And neither the Mac nor any Mac IBM- PC Cards sport a ‘clone’ of the IBM parallel printer port which is necessary for the Auricle’s Lock Key. Given enough money and enough nerds, we could probably write around these problems. But in the small community of professional composers and music editors we serve, we wouldn’t survive the effort financially.
