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- From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
- Subject: Re: GUS publicity .... NOT !
- Message-ID: <markus.304.724205209@clement.info.umoncton.ca>
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- Organization: Universite de Moncton
- References: <ByuqqG.72K@DMI.USherb.CA> <1992Dec7.041754.11954@sfu.ca> <1992Dec8.093507@cs.utwente.nl> <Bz22tE.25K@techbook.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 00:06:49 GMT
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- In article <Bz22tE.25K@techbook.com> roc@techbook.com (Ron Christian) writes:
- >From: roc@techbook.com (Ron Christian)
- >Subject: Re: GUS publicity .... NOT !
- >Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 18:17:20 GMT
-
- >In article <1992Dec8.093507@cs.utwente.nl> waardenb@cs.utwente.nl (Jerry van Waardenberg) writes:
- >>BTW: The importer of the GUS in the Netherlands said that 1 MB will become the
- >>standard amount of RAM very soon. Are there people who still use 256 kB???
-
- >I hope not. Programmers tend to program to the lowest common
- >denominator. Let's try to convince them that there's no market
- >for products that don't take advantage of GUS memory over 256K.
-
-
- Unfortunatly, 256K is quite small if you want to create a nice music
- with high quality patches (16 bit, 44.1 KHz). It is way too small. I _had_
- to upgrade mine to 1Meg 'cause I couldn't play some MIDI files and it turned
- out that those MIDI files were the best ones with lots of instruments.
- I'd like to know what kind of sampling rate Accolade used for Star
- Control II. It sounds like they used 8 bit sampling because they have quite
- a lot of instruments in their musics for 256K. In that case, 256K would be
- acceptable. But what is a game company wants nothing but the best
- soundtrack for their games with 16 bit/44.1 KHz samples? Not much memory to
- play with.
- My recommendation: Upgrade to 1Meg. It's cheap, fast & easy to do
- by yourself. Then you'll be safe if a game requires a 1Meg GUS. I did it
- and I don't regret it. 6 * 44C256 DRAM chips. I upgraded my GUS for under
- $30.
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