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System Requirements:
Apple IIgs ROM 1 or Rom 3
GS/OS System 6.0 or better
1.25MB or RAM (or enough to boot GS/OS)
A fast hard disk drive with 6MB or more of free space
Recommended: good external speakers or stereo system (plugged into the
built in GS headphone jack).
Streamsound Demo:
The purpose of this demonstration is to show that the Apple IIgs can play
the long sounds commonly found on the web if people are willing to write
players to crack the format. Here is a 5.7MB song ("Superstar" from
Carpenters, a classic favorite) bundled with the Oversampler freeware
player. The sound has been converted to the binary format standard for
IIgs raw sounds and will open using Oversampler with the correct playback
rate. Set oversampling to 2X for the best effect. The quality of the sound
is surprisingly good when routed through external speakers. It sounds
more like FM radio than an Apple II computer.
Oversampler is a streaming player, which means that it plays as it reads
the sample from disk. This is how the Macintosh, PC, and other computers
are able to play long sounds without running out of memory. As long as
you have enough memory to boot GS/OS (~1.25MB, maybe 1.5MB) and you
have a reasonably fast hard disk drive, you can play sounds megabytes in
size.
The streaming playback technique also demonstrates a possible method
for digitizing large sounds without also having large amounts of RAM. All
current IIgs software digitizes sounds to RAM. The length of the sound
that can be recorded is limited by the amount of memory that you have
installed. If someone implements a streaming digitizing program, then the
IIgs can digitize samples directly to disk (and the length would be
limited only by the largest file that can be created on that disk). With a
removable cartridge drive, you will be able to create your own alblums.