Re: Mocking Board Problems with IIGS

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

Mitchell Spector wrote:

>blake@blakespot.com (Blake Patterson) wrote:
>
>>> 	Another option, little known to most, is a Mockingboard
>>> software emulator which MDIdeas wrote for the IIgs about a decade
>>> ago. It was a musical jubebox demo which played Christmas themes
>>> to show off their SuperSonic stereo card. Upon closer inspection 
>>> I learned it used the Ensoniq chip to emulate a dual pair (or more?) 
>>> of AY-8913 chips. If you drop in music files from an ALF, Mockingboard
>>> or Phasor card, it will actually play them back using the Ensoniq.
>>> It's only useful if you have separate music-files however, it will
>>> not work in conjunction with a bootable game disk.
>>> 
>>> Mitchell Spector
>>> spec@vax2.concordia.ca
>>
>>Do you have any more info on this MDIdeas jukebox demo??  I'd love to
>>see this Christmas demo on the IIgs and the fact that it's emulating a
>>pair of Mockingboards is icing on the cake.
>>
>>Thanks.  Anyone else have info here?
>
>    Strange resuming discussion to a post I wrote almost 6 years ago. :)
>(I suppose that must have been dug up on Goggle/Deja).
>
>    There isn't much to say, it was a demo program MDIdeas used to 
>show off the stereo capability of their SuperSonic card (which just
>happened to be an ALF/Mockingboard music file player). I've only
>come across a butchered up copy that removed all references to
>MDIdeas and its original author. In retrospect, as interesting as it 
>was, it sounded almost nothing like a real Mockingboard...
>
>    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?

-michael

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