Re: MP3 decoder?

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <19990820041744.06648.00001707@ng-fo1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> Bingo!  You know your IIGS trivia.  ;-)
Heh. Well, as my friends all say, I'm just a wellspring of obscure
information...
> 
> ByteWorks makes a morphing program for the IIGS, believe
> it or not!  No, the morphing sequences it generates are not
> quicktime.  They are PaintWorks format.  Surprisingly, the
> PaintWorks format supports the IIGS 256 color mode!
> 
> The program is called Quick Click Morph.  I think Mike
> Westerfield might still have some sample morph sequences
> on his web site.  He morphed his daughter into his cat with
> it.
Hmmm. Cool. And it generates a picture sequence, not just single picture? or....
> 
> Also, apparently it is possible to convert some quicktime
> video to IIGS format (although limited by available memory).
What program allows this conversion?

> Depends on the Mac.  For a Centris 610 user, getting a typical
> modern PC and running the Gemulator Pro program from
> http://www.emulators.com/ will emulate your Mac programs,
> including MacOS 8.1 and Microsoft Office and Netscape and
> whatnot faster than the real Centris 610!
Heh. Well, I'm still using 7.5.5 and haven't touched MS Office in years :P
But then, while I'm not full of almost religious zeal about my mac, I'm
also still sure that that is the kind of computer I will be staying with
barring any sudden changes in life. Although, right now if I could afford
a new computer, I'm not sure what I would buy, since I care not for either
the iMac or B&W G3...
> 
> Now if you have a G3 and want to run PPC software, obviously
> Gemulator Pro is not an upgrade.
Yeah. You wouldn't believe the number of people I've heard ask for a
PowerPC emulator...sigh.
 
> But you know that e-Machines is making sub-500 dollar
> PCs now (thus MUCH cheaper than PPC Macs).  If you
> use their ISP service, they'll even give you a couple of
> hundred dollar rebate on it!  It is a nice upgrade for a cost
> conscious '040 user.  You get to run PC software FAST.
> You get to run your old '040 software faster than before.
Yick. I loathe the iMac, so I wouldn't really want a copied, PC version of it.
> 
> And that's why I'm interested in this emulator.  The only Mac
> stuff I'm interested in is old 68k stuff that I once used.
Yeah, that's pretty much all I am interested in right now, though I'm sure
if I had a PowerPC there would be much more I would want to do on it.
> 
> Gemulator Pro is the most complete Mac emulator I've seen.
> Maybe that's why it is good enough to sell.
Probably. There have been mac emulators sold through history, but most of
them used a plug-in card with mac roms on it. Gemulator can use it but
does not require it, correct? I wonder why that wrote that in there...
> >Hm. I'm not exactly sure what signing is, sorry. Is it like the byte-order
> >endian encoding that some of the sound formats have within them? (Try
> >playing a big-endian AIFF file in a program expecting a little-endian
> >format, under windows, and watch the glee. I think the program that did
> >that was Goldwave, though I'm not sure...
> 
> Sir, you are reading my mind.  Not only did you guess I
> was using Goldwave, but apparently Goldwave is the
> only program that calls big-edian and little-edian signed
> and unsigned (any program that I know of, that is).  ;-)
<grin> well, I'm special like that :P