18 Jul
2001
18 Jul
'01
10:52 p.m.
Gareth Knight skrev:
Zane H. Healy wrote:
> There are MP3 players for 68k Amiga's?!?! That's either rather gutsy, or
> pathetic, I'm not sure which. What do they do, decode them to another
> format and then play them?
My first exposure to MP3 was using an Amiga! They play
fine on a 040, though
you have to decrease the quality a bit. The minimum spec for Amiga MP3
players is usually a 030, though I heard one being played on an A1200 020
(full, not EC). It was recognisable, but not something I would enjoy to hear
on a regular basis.
I've still got cassette tapes I produced on my '020@28MHz A1200. I'd download
the MP3s one at a time, since I had a cramped 80 MB HD, then reboot without
running the Startup-sequence, so as to save as much memory as possible, then
use all the memory for buffering and press REC on the tape recorder when the
memory was filled. =)
On a related note, I notice that FreeGEM - the open
source version of x86
GEM - has gained a MP3 and MIDI player. I'm planning to install it on the
486/33Mhz 4Mb machine I was given. At the moment it makes a brilliant DOS
game
Where might it be downloaded?
machine - Elite Plus, Xmas Lemmings, and various card
games have been
installed on the hard disk. I'm installing an old 20+ disk set of MS
Office as I type this.
Have you tried Frontier? I can't get that bloody game to install on any PC.
The Amiga version was just a matter of drag-and-drop.
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