MAXG@SUVM.BITNET ("Gerry Greenberg: 315-443-5378") (11/28/89)
Well I've finally taken the plunge and started playing with sound on Spectre1.9. I'm using system 6.0.2, since this is what an informed source recommended I use on my MacSE. The problem I am having is as follows: When I get the control panel from the apple menu, I do not see the sound cdev in the left hand window (for that matter, I don't see the start-up device icon, either). I have the correct versions of the control panel and the sound cdev (because they are the same ones I'm using on my SE, and I have access to them on that machine's control panel). Does anyone have any ideas? I don't think this has anything to do with sound on the Spectre, because I haven't even gotten to hearing the actual sound yet...or--is it the case that Spectre doesn't actually support Apple's Sound cdev, and I need to get another? Well, as usual...thanks in advance for any replies...post here or email directly to me at: maxg@suvm (bitnet) or ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (internet). ---Gerry
rvanzuylen@wldwst.enet.dec.com (Ron van Zuylen) (11/28/89)
In article <8911280804.AA19421@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, MAXG@SUVM.BITNET writes: >Well I've finally taken the plunge and started playing with sound on >Spectre1.9. I'm using system 6.0.2, since this is what an informed >source recommended I use on my MacSE. The problem I am having is as >follows: When I get the control panel from the apple menu, I do not see >the sound cdev in the left hand window (for that matter, I don't see the >start-up device icon, either). I have the correct versions of the >control panel and the sound cdev (because they are the same ones I'm >using on my SE, and I have access to them on that machine's control >panel). Does anyone have any ideas? I don't think this has anything to >do with sound on the Spectre, because I haven't even gotten to hearing >the actual sound yet...or--is it the case that Spectre doesn't actually >support Apple's Sound cdev, and I need to get another? >Well, as usual...thanks in advance for any replies...post here or email >directly to me at: maxg@suvm (bitnet) or ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu >(internet). >---Gerry Spectre (as of 2.3) does not support the new Sound Manager routines Apple added in System Tools 6.0.2 and above. Yell at Dave Small. :-) The Sound Master CDEV works, however, since it doesn't use the new Sound Manager. The Sound CDEV (and the World CDEV, too) will not show up unless the system has extended parameter RAM. It stores the settings in there. The Spectre has neither extended nor standard "battery backed-up" parameter RAM. Only the Mac Plus and up has extended PRAM. A hack, "Disk Param", will simulate the normal PRAM by saving it as a disk file. The extended PRAM can be simulated with another hack, XPRAM, which was originally written for 512KE owners. Eventually, some nice Mac programmer will write one slick INIT just for Spectre owners (or Mac owners with dead PRAM). :-) Also, if you press ALTERNATE and the "+" key on the numeric keypad, the system will think you are a Macintosh Plus (which, it assumes, must have extended PRAM). NOTE: For some reason, it doesn't completely think you are a Plus if you are running System Tools 6.0.4. It normally thinks you are a 512KE. Ron S. van Zuylen + rvanzuylen%wldwst.enet@decwrl.dec.com Digital Equipment Corporation + decwrl!wldwst.enet!rvanzuylen Cupertino, California USA