Loc

Loc
Developer: Great Wave Software Publisher: Great Wave Software Platform: Mac OS Classic Released in US: 1986 This game has hidden development-related text.

Loc is an original board game played on a hexagonal grid. Two players take turns assimilating each other's pieces by making chains of jumps over them, until no more jumps are possible and the board becomes "locked".

ConcertWare Palimpsest

The master disk previously held an undetermined version of Great Wave's music composition and playback suite, ConcertWare. All of its Finder icons can be found in the DeskTop file, and much deleted data can be excavated from unused sectors.

Disk Directory

The former disk labels ConcertWare™ Package and the partially overwritten ConcertWare™+MIDI Beta can be seen in sectors 798 and 2, respectively.

Their corresponding file listings survive in sectors 672 and 673:

Instruments Strings Keyboard Brass Winds Percussion/Other Vocal System Folder Music ConcertWare™+MIDI

Instruments Strings Keyboard Brass Winds Percussion/Other Vocal System Folder ConcertWare™+MIDI Beta Music Empty Folder

Interface Text

Instrument Maker, by B.Edwards, R.Gardner & C.Mitchell Copyright © 1984,1985 Concertware All Rights Reserved Envelope from... Vibrato Fat Bits Tools - Shift Up U Shift Down D - Get Vibrato from... Icon - Get Icon from... Untitled Harmonics None Always During Sustain Times 1

reserved. Unauthorized duplication prohibited. Written by Robert Gardner, Boyd Edwards and Chad Mitchell Published by Great Wave Software™ P.O. Box 5847 Stanford, CA 94305 (415) 325-2202 This product has been reasonably priced so that each user may purchase a personal copy. OK Cancel Erase OK Cancel Shift Left Shift Right Compute New Vibrato Cancel

Music Player, by R.Gardner & C.Mitchell Copyright © 1984,1985 Concertware All Rights Reserved

About Player File Open... Close Save Save As... Repeat Selections Forget Selections - Quit Play Pause P Continue G - Start Over S Repeat Piece - MIDI M MIDI Clock - MIDI SetUp... Instrument Set All... Set MIDI Instruments... - Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Set 6 Set 7 Set 8 Transfer MIDI Player MIDI Writer Inst. Maker ConcertWare™+MIDI Music Player Voice 1 Voice 2 Voice 3 Voice 4 Voice 5 Voice 6 Voice 7 Voice 8 An error occured while ^0 the disk. The file '^1' was not ^2. Yes No Cancel Do you want to save changes made to '^0'? OK ConcertWare+™ Music Player Version ^0 ^1 Copyright © 1985 by ConcertWare. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication prohibited. Written by Chad Mitchell, Robert Gardner and Boyd Edwards Published By Great Wave Software™ P.O. Box 5847 Stanford, CA 94305 (415) 325-2202 This product has been reasonably priced so that each user may purchase a personal copy. Done Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Set 6 Set 7 Set 8 Choose Instrument to Set: OK Cancel Inst. 1 Inst. 2 Inst. 3 Inst. 4 Inst. 5 Inst. 6 Inst. 7 Inst. 8 Inst. Name MIDI Inst. # OK Cancel Voice 1 Voice 2 Voice 3 Voice 4 Voice 5 Voice 6 Voice 7 Voice 8 MIDI Channel Send Program (Instrument) Changes MIDI Adapter Speed 500 1000 2000 Parameter out of range (^0 - ^1). Please try again. Save this piece as: reading from writing to loaded saved -6 This disk is full. The disk directory is full. This file is locked. The disk is locked. The disk is unreadable. The disk is unwriteable. ID = -14 The file is not a music file. Not enough memory for file. memory error. The file is not an instrument file. -19 -20 Not enough room on disk to save MIDI Setup parameters. Disk is locked, cannot save MIDI Setup parameters. Unlock the disk and try again. Write error, could not save MIDI Setup parameters.

Music Summaries

ConcertWare came with a selection of classical standards that demonstrated its capabilities. Each displayed the instruments in use and a short description while being listened to.

Excerpts from the same Joplin, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Bartók pieces included in ConcertWare make up the Loc soundtrack.

The Entertainer Scott Joplin (1868-1917) Scott Joplin dedicated this ragtime two-step to James Brown and his Mandolin Club. It later became famous as the theme song from the movie "The Sting." Piano Piano Piano Piano Piano Piano Piano Piano Symphony No. 5 in C minor Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Beethoven worked on his fiery fifth and tranquil sixth symphonies at the same time, completing them in 1808. This excerpt is from the first movement. Violin Viola Cello Bass Violin Cornet Clarinet Flute Oboe Pizzicato Polka Johann (1825-99) & Josef (1827-70) Strauss These brothers, their father Johann, and their brother Eduard composed nearly 1400 works. The polka is a lively dance from Bohemia. Violin Pizz. Viola Pizz. Cello Pizz. Bass Pizz. Violin Pizz. Viola Pizz. Cello Pizz. Bass Pizz On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz Johann Strauss the Younger (1825-1899) "The Waltz King," his father, and two brothers conducted the Vienna Strauss Orchestra. This waltz was one of the most popular tunes in the 19th century. Clarinet Clarinet Sust. Piano Sust. Piano Cornet Violin Flute Cello Russian Trepak Dance (from The Nutcracker) Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) After the Nutcracker's defeat of the Mouse King, the toys and dolls celebrate with a pageant. In this dance the Russian Cossack dolls whirl wildly. Piccolo Piano Cornet Bass Clarinet Cornopean Piano Cornet Bass Clarinet Valse (Waltz) Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) Chopin is known as "the poet of the piano," because his pieces are lyrical and expressive. He dedicated this waltz to Madame Nathaniel de Rothschild. Sust. Piano Sust. Piano Sust. Piano Sust. Piano Sust. Piano Sust. Piano Sust. Piano Sust. Piano Promenade (from Pictures at an Exhibition) Modest Moussorgsky (1839-1881) Originally for piano, "Pictures at an Exhibition" was inspired by a memorial art exhibit by Moussorgsky's late friend Victor Hartmann. Cornet Cornet Tuba Tuba Violin Viola Cello Bass Violin Danse des Mirlitons (from the Nutcracker) Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Although it is very popular, Tchaikovsky did not think highly of his Nutcracker. He based the ballet on E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King." Piccolo Flute Short Flute Short Bass Clarinet Oboe Viola Cello Bassoon Solfeggietto Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) The best-known of J. S. Bach's many children, C.P.E. Bach could sight-read his fathers pieces at age eleven. He later became a leading figure of the Classical period. Electric Piano Electric Piano Electric Piano Electric Piano Sust. Piano Sust. Piano Sust. Piano Sust. Piano Weep, O Mine Eyes (madrigal) John Bennet (fl. 1600) "Weep, O mine eyes and cease not. Alas, these your springtides methinks increase not. O when begin you to swell so high that I may drown me in you?" Soprano Voice Alto Voice Tenor Voice Bass Voice Gypsy Violin Gypsy Violin Closed Flute Closed Flute Concerto in D minor (for two violins) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Now known as a composer, Bach was renowned by his contemporaries as a violinist and organist. This "Bach Double" concerto is a favorite among violinists. Violin Violin Low Cello Bass Violin Violin Violin Low Cello Bass Violin

1400 works. The polka is a lively dance from Bohemia. Violin Pizz. Viola Pizz. Cello Pizz. Bass Pizz. Violin Pizz. Viola Pizz. Cello Pizz. Bass Pizz. Flight of the Bumblebee Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Rimsky-Korsakov wrote this popular showpiece in 1888. It is part of the obscure but colorful opera "The Legend of Tsar Saltan." Bee Oboe Bassoon Bassoon Bee Oboe Bassoon Bassoon

lar Bells Conga Snare Drum Tubular Bells Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin (1868-1917) In 1899 Joplin wrote "Maple Leaf Rag" in Sedalia, Missouri where he attended the George R. Smith College for Negroes. It was Joplin's first major work. Piano Piano Piano Piano Piano Piano Piano Piano Tanz-Suite, Allegro Vivace III Béla Bartók (1881-1945) Bartók, noted for piercing musical forms, unbending principles, and fierce nationalism, left his beloved Hungary because of the Nazi regime. Cornet Cornet Cornet Cornet Tubular Bells Conga Snare Drum Tubular Bells