Re: What is this IIgs stuff . . .

[wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
: wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill) wrote:

: >HYORWIIGS
: >1988 Roger Wagner Publishing Inc.

: The card does nothing but act as a pre-amp to boost the
: microphone (or tape deck or CD-player) input to the levels
: needed by the IIGS Ensoniq chip's Analog to Digital
: Converter (ADC) so that you can digitize sounds.

One mystery solved!

: One hint that the HyperStudio manual talks about is
: digitizing sound at 26320 Hz or double or half that.  The
: IIGS power supply operates at that frequency so sounds
: digitized at that sampling rate, double it, or half it will
: result in clean samples.

Which probably explains why many of the audio clips which came with
this machine sounded like they were processed by a blender, while the
digitized intro to that NoiseTraker module (the Star Trek one) you sent
me was crystal clear.

: I can email you some IIGS sound digitization software
: if you want.  Don't know how much you can do with only
: 1MB.  Using the System 5.0.4 disk I sent you rather than
: System 6.0.1 might free up some available memory for
: sounds.

One of the other goodies in the machine that I picked up was a 4Mb
memory card, so I doubt that memory is going to be a huge problem in
the near future.  :-)  Though I must admit that I have no great desire
to digitize sound in the near future, so the software is not required.
But the titles of such software would be appreciated for future
reference.

Thanks again,
Byron.