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- From: mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Amiga platform games suck... S-NES and Genesis is breathtaking.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.000031.13652@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 00:00:31 GMT
- References: <2972@isgtec.isgtec.com> <skeksis.045o@pdrome.UUCP>
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- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- In article <skeksis.045o@pdrome.UUCP> skeksis@pdrome.UUCP (Clayton Miner) writes:
- >
- >So before this conversation goes any further how about a run down of the
- >equipment involved by the interested parties? I'll lead off...
- >
- >Amiga 1000, 1.5 megs RAM, 2 floppies, 20 meg HD, Audio Imager digitizer
- > Progs used: Audio Engineer, Quasar Sound
- >
- > Next?
-
- Okay...
- Amiga 500, 1.0 megs RAM, 1 floppy, no HD, FutureSound500 and PerfectSound3
- Progs used: AudioMaster3, ProTracker1.1b
-
- For the record, I write mods... and unlike most individuals, I like to make
- it a TOP priority to make sure I've sampled & altered all the samples to
- best fit my objective, and therefore I've spent great amounts of time
- making sure I know exactly what the (ahem :) I'm doing.
-
- The original poster had set out to describe the Amiga's 51Khz sampling rate
- as a "waste." It's like, you walk into a computer store and ask about
- the Amiga's audio, and the guy says "up to 51Khz"... naturally, you scream
- "WHAT!? That sucks! Get me my SoundBlaster with it's 22Khz anyday, 'cause
- 51Khz is a waste!"
-
- I'm not about to (yet again) attempt to point out advantages of sampling
- at that rate, except that it's at least an option, just in case you want
- the sample to be particularly high-quality. I WILL maintain my opinion that
- the 51Khz option allows for greater flexibility when writing music, for
- instance, and any other of an infinite list of possibilities.
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