Re: Mocking Board Problems with IIGS

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

Blake Patterson wrote:

>In article <fs4rtuoovu93fmo8d99k5q4ramhav3nssm@4ax.com>, Mitchell Spector
>wrote:
>> mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:
>> 
>>>Mitchell Spector wrote:
>>>>blake@blakespot.com (Blake Patterson) wrote:
>>>>    A much better program is Jimmy Huey's "ProDOS ALF Player".
>>>>It allows you to load in and play ALF/Mockingboard song files 
>>>>on a stock IIgs, but actually attempts to emulate what a *real*
>>>>AY-8910 synthesizer chip sounds like. It wasn't quite perfect
>>>>but came extremely close.
>>>
>>>Where could this be found?
>> 
>>     Apart from the copy I received directly from the author years ago, 
>> you're not likely to find it anywhere. It should be fine to distribute, I 
>> dug up my old mail spool archive and confirmed that Jimmy didn't 
>> mind it being shared.
>> 
>>     It's an 11K program that runs on both the IIe and IIgs and supports
>> playback through a hardware ALF or compatible (Phasor, Echo II,
>> Mockingboard, etc). When run on a IIgs it uses the Ensoniq for
>> emulation of the card. I also have 7 (800K) disks packed with ALF 
>> songs if anyone is interested.
>> 
>>     The question is, where is the best place to distribute this? Is the
>> Ground FTP site still accepting and sorting software uploads?
>> 
>> Mitchell Spector
>>
>
>I would be _extremely_ interested in getting hold of this player and 
>those song disks. 

Me, too.  ;-)

-michael

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