OT: .ALL files

Hi folks,

I was tidying up some old junk when I found some old floppy disks (remember them?) with some of my old synth/sequencer stuff on. They are shown as .ALL files but I thought they were just MIDI data - does anyone know of this file type? They were probably created on a _very_ old version of Cubase running on an Atari ST, the floppy is shown as a PC type on my Mac. I'll try them out as MIDI files when I get home.

Cheers

Rev. Andy

Yep they're Cubase song files. They contain the song information, setting etc and I believe the MIDI data as well (Well that's what they are on more recent versions of Cubase)

Atari STs quite deliberately used a PC-compatible floppy disk format. I remember that all you had to do was make sure the disk was formatted on a PC for it to be completely readable by both machines. I even had a PC emulator running on my 520ST which enabled me to run various DOS

The reason you had to use a PC to format the floppy was due to a bug in the Atari code. The rumour was that there was a bit to indicate whether the floppy was an old, cardboard wrapped one or a new, small, plastic boxed one. As Ataris never had the older style the bit was never set or read, but it defaulted to the wrong value so a PC got confused.

Anyway, Cubase 4.1 won't open the files.

Rev. Andy