Re: playing music from GS games

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:

>Mitchell Spector wrote:
>>     This is fairly typical with the original 256K (ROM 00, 01) mtherboard.
>> You'll pick up lots of stray electronic background noise from the ADB
>> bus and the floppy drives. That's completely fixed with a ROM 3 board.
>
>I have a ROM03-board and the "polling" of the 5,25 drives can be heard
>quite clearly on the headphone output - unfortunately.
>This is very prominent on the desktop or when an application has a
>"file requester window".

    I always keep slot-6 set to 'My Card' to disable the Apple 5.25 drive
(avoids any grinding and polling, especially under GS/OS).

    I just plugged my headphones into the back of my ROM 3, pushed
the volume to maximum and it's surprisingly quiet. All I can hear, and
very, very faintly, is the sound of the internal SCSI hardisk loading (it's
a muffled popping sound that's insync with the access LED). I'm not
surprised since the hardisk is feeding off the IIgs's main powersupply.

    Other from that, there is no noise through the headphones when 
accessing menus, scrolling, or anything else (the 5.25 drive _is_ noisy,
you're right, but why keep it enabled all the time?). Now, compare this
to the original IIgs motherboard--just moving the mouse pointer through 
menus made a very audible off-tune musical scale! In fact I remember 
you could hear it from the internal speaker as well.

    I just tried my AE Audio Animator's external mixer, it's even cleaner
sound output through there (can't hear the hardisk or 5.25 drive polling
at all with my headphones).

Mitchell Spector