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- From: Neil Brewitt <neilb@cityscape.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.psion,alt.music.techno,alt.music.hardcore,comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Work In Progress
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 12:28:07 +0000
- Organization: Cityscape Internet Services
- Message-ID: <31626ED7.DA3@cityscape.co.uk>
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- [This is crossposted- check your Newsgroups: line before requoting]
-
- Nick Macro wrote:
- >
- > My psion 3a's microphone is broken. How an I fix it?
-
- Give it to Psion and say "Fix it.".
-
- > While I am in the case, is there a modification that Psion can
- > recommend that gives me headphone out and microphone in, as I feel
- > that the Psion 3a rather lacks these.
-
- Probably. Buy an electronic engineering book, study, and then when you feel
- competent enough, go for it.
-
- > What is needed is an analog synth with digital filters. I am going to
- > look into porting sapphire<sp> to the Psion 3a from Unix. This renders
- > a digital filter pipeline into a .wav.
-
- Er... I think you are taking this sound thing *far* too seriously. The Psion
- plays essentially 8-bit sound, through a speaker which is designed to
- support beeps. You can get a feel for the limitations of the frequency
- envelope by writing a program which BEEPs through all frequencies (starting
- higher gives a better idea, IMO). Loud sounds lose a great deal of
- resolution because of the encoding algorithm. There is *no bass*. Add to
- this that the Psion is no powerstation, and you simply don't have a good
- basis for a music workhorse. Still, each to his own.
-
- > Any ideas/clues for a hopeless acidcore fiend?
-
- I'm tempted to say "Get real.", but you seem to have admirable conviction,
- so I'll instead say "Yeah- go for it- I'll believe it when I see it.". I
- sincerely wish you all the luck in doing whatever music manipulation stuff
- you do- be sure to tell us all about it here, won't you?
-
- > I have been copying each Psion 3a 2M file system incarnation into my
- > home directory. Anyone interested in having these on the net
- > somewhere as a sort of online running 'Nick's Psion cache directory'
- > sort of thing. So far I have:
-
- Why not put it on your web page? That way, anyone even remotely interested
- in what you do can take a look for themselves.
-
- [scads of stuff removed]
-
- That was weird. You have an NFS server and a dissassembler for the Psion?
-
- > My current theory is that the 2M of Psion RAM is just the local cache
- > of all the packages I have on the Linux box, and hence the Internet.
-
- I see.
-
- > Wow, that would be sexy. Getting closer to Java all the time.
-
- Er... great. That *is* great, isn't it?
-
- > Anyway, any sign of the TCP/IP stack? Unix compatible C compiler?
- > Terminal program? Modfile player?
-
- What's a unix compatible C compiler? Otherwise, yes (probably), yes, yes,
- and no. Have you actually *looked* for any of these things?
-
- > Insidentaly, the reason freeVT sucks is that is doesn't have
- > Xmodem/Ymodem support. Upon reading the manual in Psionics it says
- > that Xmodem/Ymodem is built into the EPOC OS as layers on a device
- > driver, so it shouldn't take much to get it working. Sort it out, eh?
-
- Why don't *you* sort it out if it sucks so badly? Or presumably you believe
- the rest of the Psion community is at your beck and call?
-
- > Why has nobody given me a copy of the SDK yet, warez style? Go on, I
- > can't afford to buy it, not on 35 pounds a week Giro (the Psion was a
- > gift) and the newsgroup is full of people just begging those with the
- > compiler to 'O please compile up something you powerful rich people
- > with the means of production.' You might even get some java/Psion
- > crossover ported stuff.
-
- The newsgroup is also full of people that recognise that piracy kills
- platforms. I notice that you've crossposted this to an amiga newsgroup too,
- a platform blessed with having plenty of pirates. We (Psion users) are
- blessed that there quite literally a massive number of "great guys (and
- gals)" who will utterly bust a gut to help people out. I've personally had
- far more help from Ali Manson and his terrific support team than I deserve,
- the folks on CIS are superstars when it comes to answering any question from
- the simplest to the most complicated, and the contributors to comp.sys.psion
- graciously wade through mountains of crap (sorry- read "usenet") in order to
- expound their knowledge and help others. Why not use them, instead of
- stealing?
-
- By the way- openly soliciting for illegal stuff is asking for trouble. I
- assume you knew that, but were having a momentary abberation.
-
- But hey- if we break the law by giving you free software, we "may even get
- some java/Psion crossover ported stuff". I'd like to see you run some Java
- on the Psion- I really would.
-
- > Come on Psion INC/PLC/Mega Corp, you are inhibiting the development of
- > the Psion with your petty profiteering. I will get a copy of the C
- > compiler one off someone else, anyway, but it would be a nice gesture
- > on your part. ? How many copies have you sold? Give it and info away
- > for free or Linux / GNU / Sun / Java / The-Whole-Damn-Internet will
- > laugh and leave you behind, despite the best efforts of all these nice
- > folks.
-
- This is hilarious. You just told Psion that you don't care about them enough
- to steal from them, and now you're asking for free stuff. Cosmic. Your turn
- of phrase is par excellence. I *do* hope Psion get in touch with you.
-
- > Do you even read your own newsgroup?
-
- What do you mean? Psion doesn't have a newsgroup.
-
- Neil.
-
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