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“Until version 6 is available, there’s no way to make Encore work on your Mac.”
I think that you can do it using Crossover. I’m not certain.
I think that you can do it using Crossover. I’m not certain.
Maybe but that will be the Windows version of Encore running on the Mac.
Interestingly, as long as Crossover has been out, I’ve never heard of someone reporting back that they has done it.
I use Parallels Desktop for a Windows environment on my Macbook. This allows me to run both Encore 5.0.4 and Overture 5.6.3, both created by Don Williams.
I’ve been using Encore for over 30 years. People have urged me to switch to other “more up-to-date” programs, but I’m so comfortable with Encore, know it so deeply, and have so much work in .enc files that the thought of switching exhausts me. If it stops working on whatever version of Windows is standard at a given moment, it will be dead for good. I’m still on 4.5.3, so I’ll soon no longer be able to work with it. If version 6 doesn’t come out, the Encore community will inevitably dwindle to zero.
Therefore, I’m asking the forum administrator —whom I understand to be Don Williams or someone very close to him— please don’t respond with silence. Summer is over and Encore 6 hasn’t been released. Please provide an update on the project; I think it’s better to know the truth than to prolong the agony.
> I think it’s better to know the truth than to prolong the agony.
I think prolonged agony is the truth. 🙂 I’m surprised/pleased that Don is working on it at all…
Or as Chuck Berry so aptly remarks in a song: “C′est la vie” say the old folks
It goes to show you never can tell.use Parallels Desktop for a Windows environment on my Macbook. This allows me to run both Encore 5.0.4 and Overture 5.6.3, both created by Don Williams.
Don did not write Encore 5. The company was sold after Encore 4 but before 4.5.5 IIRC. He bought the source code from Passport Designs after they went out of business three years ago.
I have no idea how accurate this Wiki timeline is. Anyway, Sonic Scores is Don.
“Encore was originally created for the Apple Macintosh by Don Williams for the US company Passport Designs Inc. of Half Moon Bay, CA., and first released in 1984.[1]
Lyrrus Inc., d.b.a. GVOX purchased the intellectual property of Passport in 1998[2] and Encore 5 was released 10 years after Encore 4.
Encore is notable for being one of the first scorewriter programs to enable items in the musical score to be added and edited using the mouse.[3]
Encore 5 included wizards to create scores for numerous types of ensembles from scratch, MusicXML support (although in now obsolete 1.3 version), use of VST, and J.S. Bach complete works for keyboard in Encore format.
On August 1 of 2013, Passport Music Software LLC,[4] acquired the rights of Encore, Music Time Deluxe and MasterTracks Pro.
On June 16 of 2022, Sonic Scores, Inc,[5] acquired the rights of Passport Music Software, Encore, Music Time Deluxe and MasterTracks Pro.”
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