Re: Apple IIGS sales demo music

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

Lockar <lockar@nowheretobefound.com> wrote:

><d9c0ebb1-22be-4a26-b175-be20b398fcf2@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
>limtc <thyechean@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I tried and created these 2 disks from Virtual Apple, and when play on
>> ROM 1 GS (with 1 drive) - the first disk load half way and remains
>> blank screen. Insert the 2nd disk, press any key and then the music
>> play...
>> 
>> BUT either on 2.8MHz or accelerated speed, when the Jazz music play
>> half way, I got a big screwed up in the sound and then crash into
>> monitor.
>> 
>> I am wondering whether this needs 2 drives to work?
>
>   Yes, the demo requires 2 drives and will not work on a ROM 3
>machine.  I also have the sales demo (real disks) and found out the
>hard way like you did.  :/

    It will load from a single 3.5 drive. You just have to go into the demo's
configuration menu (hold down the Command key while booting the first 
disk) and choose "yes" to pause option. This allows you to physically 
swap disks while it loads--it may not prompt you, I think the screen just
goes black and the drive stops. You swap disks and then hit any key.

    I remember that didn't work too well, the digitized music would get
grabbled. The other option was to install it on your hardisk, it was
doable by copying all the files into one directory and modifying the 
volume name its looking for (memory is fuzzy here, but I think there
was a patched file on one of the FTP sites).

    All my ROM 01's are in storage, but it was easy enough to capture
the audio from an emulator (KEGS32) and then re-encode it as an
MP3 file. It's not from a real GS, but it's the audio you wanted:

http://raptor.golden.net/~mspector/IIGS%20sales%20demo.mp3

Mitchell Spector