Re: ------- Welcome to Macintosh --------

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <1993Jun3.022709.21693@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
edb143s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Donny) writes:

>Ok Jawaid.. you've got a great point...  the thing that REALLY annoys me,
>though.. is when Apple TRY to emulate the great things in the GS on the
>MACINTOSH....... such as their sound chips, etc, which are very similar
>to the ensoniq.  Apple seem to be trying to make the Apple II range

Let's think about this.  The Ensoniq DOC 5503 has 32 independant oscillators
which can play any 8-bit sound at any speed from 51 to ($FFFF*51) Hz.  The
Mac sound chip has 4 channels, each of which can only play at 22.0 kHz. (This
is why MODs sound like crap on a Mac).  There's no comparison.

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