attribution

there are a few people i'd like to thank.  it will be impossible to get to "everybody".

high

god.  of course.  he rules.

grymmjack for his sig on qb64 phoenix forum telling me about "16colo-dot-rs" site.

a740g for "ansiprint" program and dozens of useful routines for qb64 phoenix.

all the other moderators and regular members of qb64 phoenix forum, especially smcneill, bplus, spriggsyspriggs (great job on the text-file-frame rick astley video, original video not as great), rhosigma, pete and others.  developers of qb64.  galleon for creating qb64.

authors of lua interpreter.

authors of xaos fractal graphics program.

kx.studio and other authors of cardinal modular synthesizer and many other virtual music tools for linux.

tandy corporation for creating the color computer.  microware for joining microsoft in helping design the color computer 3.  but i care more about the color computer 2.

the authors of "mocha-dot-jar" program which emulates the color computer.

jeff mcclintock for creating synthedit.  after version 1.1 however, i can only shrug sadly.

computer music magazine and future music magazine for the zillion samples and for software.  although the provided music-creation programs were buggy and limited.  this got me started with using vst.  also the various contributors of samples: cognition audioworks/andrew duke, the electronic garden, groove criminals, cyclick, hattrixx, richard (p.) james audio design and others.  rachmiel for being kind enough to answer one of my e-mails.



low

steinberg for creating vst2 plug-in format.

microsoft for only one thing: creating quickbasic.  otherwise count me out.

in the same note, borland international for creating turbo pascal.  too bad my thoroughput in it was rather weak.

the mod archive.

authors of openmpt.  authors of impulse tracker and schism tracker.  authors of psycle while it was great for windowsxp and windows7.

authors of many of the linux distributions.  especially slackware and debian/ubuntu.  authors of the "major" desktops like cinnamon and kde, and window managers like fluxbox and sway.  this is so we middle-aged and seniors in decade-2o2o could remain on desktop computing a bit longer.

sonic foundry company for creating acid music.  that definitely got me started in music creation.

kvr audio.  obviously for being an information house about vst plug-ins and music creation.  otherwise don't ask me why.

cockos incorporated, authors of reaper.  renoise team.

mix software from richardson, texas u.s.a.  for creating power c.  it got me started in programming other than basic.

cakewalk company, i think when they were dominated by twelvetone systems from boston, mass. u.s.a.  this is for "professional" which was my first daw for windows, and for kinetic and a few other programs well enjoyed before i discovered vst.  psyn by rgc audio wasn't vst instrument but a cool-ass synth ahead of its time!

creative labs company for creating soundblaster pro.  it cut off the built-in dac of the tandy 1000 rlx-hd that i had for a short time, it sucked.

sun microsystems and their allies for creating what eventually became libreoffice.  although i hate that program and try to use it as less as possible.  i did use it a lot before the "apache" openoffice version 4 phase.

authors of dungeon crawl "stone soup".  addictive game but really sucks.  too easy to die.  need to be a cat and this is just to get to the "abyss" and the "snot".  even in "explorer" mode it becomes unplayable quite soon.  i don't know, i think the authors of angband and/or umoria deserve better this line.
