The Mac Classic version of Csound has been on an unofficial hiatus for the
last year while I pondered the utility of continuing to work on it.  As I
have now mostly completed upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard and rarely use Mac
OS 9 anymore, I am placing the Mac OS Classic port of Csound into official
"legacy status" as a supported Csound platform.  This means that there will
be no more official releases (from me at least) and that bugs and unfinished
features in the Mac Classic interface are unlikely to be fixed or completed.
Futhermore, support for the Mac Classic platform may be removed in Csound 6.

Csound 5.08 then is the most recent version for Mac OS Classic.  It should
remain available from Sourceforge for anyone interested in continuing to use
it.  I will continue to provide email support for Mac Classic users by
answering questions and helping to solve usage problems for anyone who
emails me directly.

If anyone else, now or at some point in the future, is interested in
compiling new versions of Csound 5 for Mac Classic, it should be possible
and I will gladly answer any questions on using the build system.  I started
to write some documentation for how to build Csound 5 on Mac OS 9 but the
information is incomplete, so please email me if you need help.  You can
find the build documentation here:

http://csound.cvs.sourceforge.net/csound/macintosh/BuildDocumentation/


Thank you very much to everyone who used the Mac Classic Csound ports while
they were maintained by me and thanks especially to those who provided
feedback and encouragement!!  Also, big thanks to Matt Ingalls who did most
of the original development of a PowerMac version of Csound and to Dave
Madole, Mike Berry, Dan Ellis, and Bill Gardner for their work so many years
ago.  Finally, thanks to the other Csound developers who answered many
questions about how the Csound code works and for helping to find solutions
to maintain compatibility with the legacy Mac platform.

All the best,

Anthony Kozar
mailing-lists-1001 AT anthonykozar DOT net
http://anthonykozar.net/