Re: IIgs Audio (was MacADT) . . .

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wbdesnoy@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill) wrote:

>Thanks to those who helped me get MacADT up and running, and offering advice
in
>upgrading my IIgs.  With any luck, I will be listening to a sample of IIgs
>audio early in the week.  BTW - are there any good demos for the IIgs which
>demonstrate the abilities of it synthesizers?  (Graphics are a mute point

There are a lot of fantastic demos that demonstrate the 32-channel
Ensoniq wavetable synthesizer.  Unfortunately, they all require
3.5" disk drives at the very least.  Most IIGS music programs
exceed 143k, so they can't even fit on a 5.25" disk.

>until I create a new cable for the RGB monitor I have, until then its life
>with the Commodore 1701.  This is an NTSC monitor with good quality video.)

Well, you could use the composite video out of the IIGS to the
composite video in of this monitor.  The graphics will look pretty
poor though.  Assuming you used this monitor with the Amiga,
you know what I'm talking about.  The RGB output is much
sharper than the composite one.  Best to construct an RGB cable
from the monitor to the IIGS' RGB port.  That's the higher
resolution port.

>As I have not managed to figure out Apple II encoding and compression yet,
>anything which comes as 5.25" disk images would be prefered.

The main problem is that IIGS demos do not fit on 5.25" disks.

Now if you had a 3.5" disk drive, that would be a different story.
If so, send me email and maybe, if I can still find DS/DD 3.5"
disks, we can work out something and I can send you some music
and graphics demos on disk.