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First post, by King_Corduroy

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Hello guys, I've been wondering for a while now if there are any good free software suites for recording in Windows 98. I'm looking for something that will run on a 200MMX with 64MB RAM up to a 500mhz Pentium 3 with 800MB RAM. Audacity is a little too power hungry, it's a great program but for this I want something a bit lighter that will still record decent sounding audio.

The reason I'm wondering is because I record "music" and I need another computer to record the synthesized instruments of the first one and since the synth sounds are being generated on my main computer (since it's a bit of a power hungry process) I need another computer, but before I try and build a P4 computer or better to do this task I thought maybe I could get away with using one of my older computers for the time being.

I had some other computer that would have been more suited to this sort of thing but I scrapped them when the motheboards developed bad caps. 🙁

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Reply 1 of 10, by bristlehog

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Reply 2 of 10, by leileilol

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I still use Cool Edit for at least 20 years now, from Win3.1 to Windows 7 it's been 1.31 to 96.

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Reply 4 of 10, by mirh

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This guy (that I love) use CamStudio

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Reply 6 of 10, by Stretch

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Reply 7 of 10, by smeezekitty

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Audacity is great. But probably not so much for 64MB of RAM

Reply 8 of 10, by King_Corduroy

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smeezekitty wrote:

Audacity is great. But probably not so much for 64MB of RAM

Yeah that's exactly why I asked. 🤣 Audacity is a little too modern.

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Reply 9 of 10, by Stretch

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Just installed WinDAT on a Win95 VirtualPC VM. But I have not used this app since the 90s so I don't know if it is good or not.

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Reply 10 of 10, by Jorpho

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Cool Edit was also my standard before Audacity came around. The shareware version had some weird but reasonable limitations. I'm not sure what the last available version was; it became Adobe Audition in 2003.