27 Jun
1997
27 Jun
'97
5:26 p.m.
At 12:00 AM 6/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
That is because the software you run want work well enough at 1 MHZ... and
if you want to edit, that is where the heap requirement goes up.
also about enough ram space...NOT!
I have some software for the C=64 that plays back digital sound files. wit
the stock 64K of ram, I can hold a 6 second clip. with the 1764 ram
expansion with 512K of ram, I can hold a 60 second clip, but no longer tha
Funny my s100 crate can playback easily 8mb and using a modified os 32mb
of sound. In this case a well designed hard disk system (circa 1982)
easily keeps up without eating ram. On a z80 at 4mhz. Oh, the disk size
was limited by budget! Even in 1982 hard disks were plenty fast enough to
support fast DACs or audio.
Allison