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Gosh - that's a blast from the past!

I remember back in the 90's when studying for my Music A-Level you essentially had two choices for notation - Finale if you were on a PC, and Sibelius if you had an Acorn.

For that reason, the music department at my school had Acorn Archimedes and then Acorn RiscPC machines.

Sibelius was the all around better piece of software - but I "only" had a windows PC at home, so it was Finale or nothing.




Relevant Tantacrul video on the erosion of the Sibelius UI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI

I used Sibelius extensively circa version 5, and refused to upgrade for many years. I used it to get through my music minor in college. I still have the installer and a k*ygen on a hard drive somewhere since they stopped selling licenses to it and I lost mine. Still my preferred software, and yes I've tried Musescore. It's not nearly the same. Old software still works.


A bit later on in the mid 2000s when I 100% wasn't cheating my way through GCSE Music, Sibelius on Windows PC was the standard.


Yep - I believe they released the first Windows version in 1998 ... and by that time I was about to start my first year of uni ... not studying music, but instead AI + Comp Sci!




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