Mocking Board Problems with IIGS

[blake@blakespot.com (Blake Patterson)]

> In article british@imap1.asu.edu writes...
> >
> >Help! My newly acquired IIGS runs all II+/e software well but
> >it doesn't work with my old mocking board.
> > 
> >Games either failed to recognize the board or simply crashed. 
> >I've set the IIGS at normal clock speed and tried two different
> >boards but the symptoms were just the same. It makes me wonder
> >whether a II+/e mocking board will work on a IIGS at all.
> 
> 	The Apple IIgs is not 100% compatible (although close to it) 
> with older 8-bit software and hardware, so on occation there is a 
> chance you'll run into non-compatibility issues. Try installing the
> Mockingboard in slot-4 and setting the slot to 'Your Card' from the
> Control Panel. 
> 
> >If a special mocking board is required and if anyone has one for
> >sale please let me know. Thanks!
> 
> 	There are other sound boards which use the General Instrument
> (AY-891x) chipset and will emulate a true Mockingboard. One board that
> comes to mind is the Applied Engineering Phasor card. You may have a
> little trouble fitting the board inside the IIgs's with the lid shut,
> but it works with a number of Mockingboard titles (with perhaps one or 
> two exceptions, Ultima V comes to mind).
> 
> 	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.
> 
> >Acho
> 
> 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?


bp