[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] PC Lyra

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/30/03 10:00:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
mjnelson12 at comcast.net writes:

> No,no,no. I am talking about Lyra, that was created for the Coco by 
>  Lester Hands. He also made a version for the Pc. I was able to 
>  download it from some site about 2 years ago and now I can't find 
>  that site. I know I was able to play PC Lyra when I downloaded it, 
>  but now it doesn't work.

Somewhere I have a sample floppy (5") of an early version of PC Lyra, that 
Lester Hands gave me (as a professional courtesy, since I gave him a Coco 
UltiMusE-III disk).  It looked better than the Coco version, more than 256 pixels 
wide I think, maybe even 640 pixels?  I have to be careful with my memory, since 
he also gave me a preliminary OS9 version that looked exactly like the RSDOS 
original.

ISTR that the PC version was white notes and staff lines on a black 
background, due to the early PC graphics hardware.

You say your copy doesn't work now -- could it be you have  newer version of 
Windows, and the PC Lyra would work only under DOS, or an old Windows like 95?
That's one reason I'm sticking with Win98.  --Mike K.