Re: CDR's & MP3 for GS???

[Will Smith <wsmith@ctron.com>]

On 10 Dec 1998, Mitchell Spector wrote:

>     To the best of my knowledge, no software drivers exist to
> support this. Another issue is despite there being SCSI CD-R
> drives, I'm not so sure about the feasibility of the Apple HS
> SCSI or RamFAST SCSI (or the IIgs itself) being able to support
> them on the hardware level.
> 
>     At the moment the only solution is to move data you want
> archived over to a PC or Mac and burn it there.
> 
> >What about an MP3 player???
> 
>     That is completely out of the question. An MPEG1, Layer 3
> player has to read data and decompress it *on-the-fly*, while
> at the same time, play what has been decompressed so far. It's
> kind of like driving a high-speed train with a track building
> robot just a few feet in front, laying down track for the train
> to travel on _as_ it drives--if the robot stumbles or is too
> slow, your going to have a big problem if the train gets ahead
> of the robot and the unfinished track. :) Not too long ago I
> used to use a 133 MHz 486 machine to play MP3 files, and that
> was not able to keep up (I was able to _just_ squeeze by if I
> didn't touch the mouse or keyboard while it played).

[much more snipped]

sounds like a classic excuse to push for that StrongARM board that
somebody had on their page...  (as i understood the project, it would take
over the GS chassis much the same way that the PC Transporter does...)

the trick is that there aren't many people that are willing/able to build
something like that unless they know that there's a profit from it.  8(

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