Zane H. Healy skrev:
>> I don't have a network card, but if all goes well a GVP
>> Spectrum graphics card is going into it. BTW, 3.9 includes a bunch
>> of AVI's and a few MP3's on the CD to test the various media players
>> with, as well as an audio track. I'm not planning on upgrading any
>> of the other custom chips unless I find I have to, such as the Buster.
>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?
Keep in mind that I'm running a 25 MHz Amiga as my main (only) machine. That
doesn't mean I don't enjoy MP3s. =)
They decode in real time. A French bloke named Stephane Tavenard deserves most
of the credit for his tight assembler-coded MPEGA.library, which most players
use.
Since my stock A4000 is probably the absolute low-end for getting moderate
quality playback, I usually use a command-line player and a lot of buffering.
A faster '040 or an '060 won't be so limitated. An '060 may even replay
several MP3s at once, and there are pretty, skinnable programs such as
AmigaAMP or AMPlifier. =)
Decoding MP3s to another format is for Mac users. Let them believe realtime
playback is impossible. Amiga (and Atari) users know otherwise. =)
>> Mine's going underneathe my NEC monitor and sharing it with
>> the G3. This little Multisync C400 has certainly seen it's share of
>> various computers since I bought it in '96!
>The monitors I've got would probably crush a A3000! I might be able to put
>it in the wooden rack next to the desk, but the PDP-8/m sits where it would
>need to go, and I'm going to need to find more room in the rack for a
>PDP-8/e and Papertape reader/punch.
We're running a 17" Compaq monitor on top of ours. A friend of mine runs a 19-
incher on top of his, IIRC-
>OTOH, I might be able to stuff it under the A2002 Monitor I've got hooked up
>to a dead VCR (I use the combo for a TV in the computer room.
I use a Philips 8833 as TV. =)
What's an A2002? Is that the one with the slow phosphor?
>> I'm going to use mine as a backup system as well as one to
>> handle those times when I just feel the urge ot use an Amiga. The
>> fact that it doesn't depend on anything MS is nice too. You could
>> also use it as a Linux box too. It'd be cool to fix the kernel panic
>> on mine when booting into Linux, but that's a low priority. I think
>> I saw some of the distro files still on the hard disk when I was
>> moving stuff around on the Amiga partition.
>Don't need a backup system, and I've no desire to run Linux on anything but
>a fast x86 box. So I'm still trying to come up with a use for it. That was
>one of the reasons I bought it a Catweasel, however, the board didn't
>function as advertised thanks to the lack of software for it. Of course the
>Catweasel board is also why it's sitting in a monster ALR Server Tower at
>the moment!
What software are you lacking?
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
Amiga: (noun) The most technologically advanced computer that hardly anyone
cares about.
Use in sentence: "I wanted to buy an Amiga for its low price and great color
graphics, but everyone else seems to be using IBMs or Macintoshes. So, to
remain compatible with the rest of the world, I spent three times as much on a
Macintosh and got only half the graphics capability of an Amiga."
Received on Wed Jul 18 2001 - 22:47:53 BST