Re: IIGS Game Music

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Mike Kent <Mkent01@viking.cris.com> writes...

>Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> 
>>     I would recommend using either DeskPlay NDA (a GUI front end
>> for shellplay) or BeatBox for listening to MOD's over anything
>> else out there. They offer the best quality sound playback and 
>> support most note effects.
> 
>I tried the DeskPlay / ShellPlay combo, but it seemed unstable on my
>system.  SonoBox is much more stable.

    Are you using the latest version of DeskPlay? I never had a
problem with it myself, maybe you should try reinstalling it or
could explain how it's unstable. You can download the newest
version from <http://www.igd.fhg.de/~girschik/nfc> (actually
that URL is outdated, but will take you to the same place).

>As for BeatBox, I have never heard of it, and I've visited most of 
>the ftp sites.  Where can I pick up a copy of it? 

ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/apple16/Music/Applics/beatbox.shk

    Beatbox sounds about as good as shellPlay, but features some
nice graphical players (1, 4 and 8 channel live oscillascopes).
It also supports playback of MED and 8 channel MODs, which is
something unique to Beatbox (well shockWave too, but that was
never released. Mind you it offered some neat graphical players, 
like something similar to Tim Meekin's Software Experience #1 
demo and early support for S3M's. I *think* that project split
and is why Beatbox exists).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca