Re: I hate to be the bearer of bad news...

[nraymond@k12.ucs.umass.edu (Nathan Raymond (Phillips Academy 94))]

In a previous article, neiderma@eden.rutgers.edu (Kid) says:

>> Hear, hear!  _I_ ,for one, would LOVE to see a gs emulator for the
>>PPC.  With the new PPC chips running at >= 100Mhz there should be
>>plenty of power to run lots 'o gs stuf.
>
>Of course, even with the AV capability of the latest PowerMac (8100?),
>the sound still bites compared to the GS 15 voice stereo stuff....
					  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ PlayerPRO can play
32 channel MADF (it also plays MOD, MIDI, 669, S3M, Oktalizer, and MTM)
files while displaying 4 oscilloscopes, 16 sound samples with colored
vertical bars which move horizontally as the sample is played keyed to the
corresponding channel by its color, 32 sample indicators showing which sound
is being played to what channel, a pattern viewer showing the current
pattern and sounds color-coded to channels in that pattern, 3 wireframe
shapes imposed on top of the four oscilloscopes, controlled by the mouse,
with each one (cube, plane with 4 segments, 3D rectangular box) rotating and
sides moving to and color coded to the channels, all able to be dynamically
zoomed in and out with the keyboard, to the side there is a sinusoidal
graphic upwardly scrolling of the author and various plugs for his program,
below there is a 32 pixel high scrolling text field describing the program,
behind all this there is a scrolling starfield, and this is being played in
the background in 16-bit 41khz stereo right now on the PowerMac 7100 I'm on. 
It's kind of hard to describe, but I hope I gave you an idea this one mode,
FullView, is like.  (PlayerPRO includes PowerMac native code).  I don't
think the PowerMac's will have trouble with IIgs audio.  

>Of couse, I'd still pay for something like that, since my next big
>machine buy will be a PowerMac most likely.

Good choice.

nathan
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