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cartoday at 10:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

Is the software still attractive to use, after all those years, or why are you going to these extremes? Sounds it's somehow intimately intertwined with the dongle, if the check routines can't simply be patched.


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cartoday at 11:03 AM

Going down this rabbit hole, I realize that ST hardware for musicians is still huge. And the dongles as still working as intended, apparently.

And then this blew my mind:

https://re-falcon.com

Quite the underground scene:

https://indyclassic.org

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cmrdporcupinetoday at 11:20 AM

People attempted to patch the routines decades ago and it never produced a stable result.