To: limtc limtc wrote:Hi, What's your opinion of any good Apple IIGS games/applications that really show off Apple IIGS stereo sound capability besides demos? I can think of a few (which I already shown to my kids): - DiversiTune (everybody favoruites!) - Music Construction Set (this one seems to gear more towards classical music) - Arkanoid II - Rastan - Zany Golf I don't quite like the sound generated from SoundSmith, Music Studio and MIDISync (based on what I heard so far). NoiseTracker and some MOD players have excellent sounds.Axel F and Funky Town sound pretty awesome in Soundsmith, but apart from those I was a little under whelmed.I thought my MidiSynth conversions of kids songs (in Dora Colouring) sounded OK - but I must admit, it was very hard to convert regular Midi songs into MidiSynth. Many of the conversions I did will never be heard by any other ears than mine (because most of them fall into the "sounds dreadful" bucket).One great example of stereo music can be heard in the karate game called Sensei. It uses stereo to great effect, particularly in the intro scene where it plays drums from alternate speakers. This was the game that I used to test my TDX sound card after building it (mainly because it was so obvious to determine if the stereo effects were working). Sensei can be downloaded from:http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/apple16/Games/Sensei/sensei.shk
Everyone's
quick to bash SoundSmith, aren't they? :-) Sesei's music was created in SoundSmith. As Mitch pointed out, all the FTA demos were created in SoundSmith using all 15 channels. It's just a shame most demo tracks for SoundSmith were MOD conversions with only 4 channels, but I still think SoundSmith was the best all round player. With Ian Schmidt's MegaTracker player, it only consumed 1% of the CPU on a stock standard IIGS for music playback.
-- - Alex http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/