Re: Second Sight....

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

In article tdiaz@coyote.csusm.edu (Tony Diaz) writes...
> 
>I'll start this off with just one word....
> 
>Outraaaaaaaaaaageous!
> 
>....and to borrow a little from GS+
> 
>"Eat my Dust Windows..."
> 
>Get the Picture! See the Picture! Feel the Picture!
> 
>The _G_ in Apple IIgs has arrived!

	Now that the "G" is back, perhaps someone could considering 
polishing up the "S" along with it! :) The wavetable sound of the 
Ensoniq DOC 5503 is still leaps and bounds above most other systems,
yet the one thing that fuels that sound, DOC-RAM, is quite lacking!
We only have a mere 64K to load in instrument patches, even though
the chip can fully address 128k of DOC-RAM. However something more
in the area of 512k to 1MB DOC-RAM would be nice, this is the amount
found in current-day wavetable cards for the PC, sometimes even more.

	And of course 16-bit sound resolution would make those patches
sound even better (we're currently limited to 8-bit sound with the 
Ensoniq 5503). This is just a pipe dream, but what would to take to
clean things up in this area...some sort of new stereo card that could
patch-in and enhance the current built-in sound chip, or would you have 
to abandon it and basically add an Ensoniq 5505 w/ 1MB DOC-RAM on a slot 
card? 

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Mitchell Spector
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