MacGAMUT 6 1.10

MacGAMUT software provides a flexible, graded ear-training and fundamentals learning environment for serious music students, from novices to the most advanced.

Though Ann Blombach's students at The Ohio State University had been using her ear-training software for several years as it went through various incarnations and permutations in the course of development, Mayfield Publishing released MacGAMUT: Intervals, Scales, and Chords in 1988. This first published version of MacGAMUT ran only on Macintosh computers (hence, the "Mac" in the name). In 1991, Mayfield published Ann's MacGAMUT: Melodic Dictation as a separate title.

Before 2000, MacGAMUT software ran exclusively on Macintosh computers, which had been fine for music computer-lab installations, where Macs had long been the computer of choice.

By the close of the 20th Century, however, a growing number of students had their own computers, and most of those were Windows machines. Students wanted to work on MacGAMUT in their own rooms on their own time rather than trekking off to some computer lab . In response, Ann devoted two years' work to porting her Mac-only application to Windows, introducing MacGAMUT 2000 for Mac and Windows, the first cross-platform version of her software, with installers for both computer platforms on each CD.