I posted this on http://atariarea.krap.pl, and they sent me here. Sorry I only speak English, but google translate should get us by.

I live in America and own a NTSC 130XE which of course does not like all the great software that you guys get to enjoy in Poland and the like.

Two pieces of software that are of the greatest interest to me are Black Magic Composer and Theta Music Composer, both of which seem to run O.K., but when I try to select DIR or DIRECTORY in either program, my Atari will lock up, though if I boot up an emulator and set it to the same system specs as my real Atari, but put it in PAL mode, I am able to go into DIR and DIRECTORY. Naturally I set to emulator to NTSC to see what it would do, and it locked up just like my real Atari.

So naturally I am going to purchase a PAL Atari or two, since I currently have no other way around this, and of course have many PAL games and demos I'd like to enjoy but can not.

In the mean time I would like to locate and contact the authors of these two programs, and see if their is something they might be able to do, in order to get these great pieces of software to work as they should on a NTSC Atari. Even though I am switching to PAL, I would like to see these programs adjusted in case other NTSC users would like to make use of the software.

Thankx!

Hi Syfo-Dyas,

The Black Magic Composer was written by Sven Tegethoff. I think he isn't active with atari computers nowadays and I don't know how to contact him. But the distributor of the software Ulf Petersen is (more or less) active this time. In this forum his nick is kuestenturm. In 2007 Ulf released his products into the public domain, so there are no legal issues to post the software here. BMC was protected, and I doubt there is an unprotected version somewhere in the net. Here is an unprotected version of BMC, tested without problems with Atari800WinPlus.

Regards
Bunsen

One e-mail address of Sven Tegethoff is cheetah@tigress.com, in case anyone wants to contact him.

Thorsten

Bunsen & thorsten_guenther: Thank you!

I tried the copy of BMC that Bunsen uploaded and it does the same thing as my other copies, which is lock up when I select DIR on an NTSC Atari. Theta 1x does that as well, though thankfully it has been fixed under Theta 2.

I shall in the mean time try to contact Sven Tegethoff via E-mail and see if he could provide me with the source code so that I may try to find someone to resolve this issue. I presume since this problem was resolve in Theta that it can be resolved under Black Magic as well, if not, then I all future Atari musicians will want to make sure they get them selves a PAL machine.