Re: II.Sound question: why is it better on a //e, than a IIgs?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Simon Williams replied:

>Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Since the IIgs does not have a bank-switched memory emulation
>> beyond the "standard" 128K //e, I expect that it simply plays two
>> (main + AUX) banks worth and then quits because it has run out
>> of 8-bit addressable memory.
>
>Interesting, I'd often wondered about that...
>
>I've also noticed that II Sound's playback seems to actually _sound_
>better on an 8-bit machine... the IIgs sounds more "screechy" to me...
>is this possibly due to the IIgs having better fidelity in the treble
>range, or is it all in my head?

I use a IIgs about once a year, so I haven't heard it!  I'll have
to give it a try soon.

The cycle timings should all be the same, so maybe it's just
the speaker (though that seems unlikely).  SOUND.EDITOR
(which was the development vehicle for DAC522) sounds better
with a better speaker (of course).  The lowest frequency
component resulting from the DAC is 22kHz, which is
certainly beyond my cutoff.  ;-)

Another thought--are there any interrupts enabled on the IIgs
when it's running in 8-bit ProDOS?  They would be quite
audible...

-michael

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