ryanb@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Ryan Baucom) (04/12/91)
This is in reply to smacfee@jarthur.claremont.edu... I forget your
specific question about SoundSmith, but I think I can help anyway.
I'll describe my setup to you, and maybe it'll work for you too.
I have a ROM 3 GS with standard memory (1.125 Meg), a Vulcan 40, plus
some other unimportant stuff. I tried starting SoundSmith v.94 from the
Finder, but I kept getting an error $0201 (Out of Memory, or something to
that effect). I tried to find a way to bypass the Finder to free up some
more memory. I found two ways:
1) create a GSOS system floppy, but remove the finder files.
( */System/Start, I think). Essentially, replace the default startup
application with SoundSmith. Any application with ".SYSTEM" on the end
will work. Don't forget to install the proper tools installed in
*/System/Tools. For my SoundSmith disk, I use the following tools:
14-16, 18-23, 25-29, 32-34. For my regular hard disk, I use the same tools
plus 35 (MIDISynth) and 219 (SoundSmith Player, I believe). Anyway, boot
this disk and SoundSmith will be loaded automatically.
2) as a more flexible option, use Don Elton's ECP-16 or other
text-based program launcher. This allows more flexibility than a single
application-specific disk. Not as handy as the finder, but it's fast and
doesn't take as much memory. This is also a good way to free up extra
memory for word processors, games, etc.
Hope this helps- let me know if you can get it running.
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| ARPA: crash!pro-charlotte!ryanb@nosc.mil |daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) (04/12/91)
In article <8534@crash.cts.com> ryanb@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Ryan Baucom) writes: > 1) create a GSOS system floppy, but remove the finder files. >( */System/Start, I think). Essentially, replace the default startup >application with SoundSmith. Any application with ".SYSTEM" on the end >will work. Don't forget to install the proper tools installed in BTW, a file that ends in ".SYSTEM" is supposed to be a Prodos 8 SYS file, and a file that ends in ".SYS16" is supposed to be a Prodos 16 (ick!) or GS/OS S16 file (such as SoundSmith). Anyone knows what happens when you call a S16 file *.SYSTEM? (or vice versa?) > | ProLine: ryanb@pro-charlotte --------------- | > | Internet: ryanb@pro-charlotte.cts.com | Charlotte, NC | | > | UUCP: crash!pro-charlotte!ryanb --------------- | > | ARPA: crash!pro-charlotte!ryanb@nosc.mil | -- David Huang | "Calzoni Pizza: Internet: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | Delivery in six UUCP: ..!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!daveh | hours, or else your America Online: DrWho29 | pizza is cold."
dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) (04/14/91)
In article <47081@ut-emx.uucp> daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes: >[...] >Anyone knows what happens when you call a S16 file *.SYSTEM? (or vice >versa?) Nothing interesting should happen--the only special thing about the suffixes is that the system looks for type $FF files ending in ".SYSTEM" and type $B3 files ending in ".SYS16", if it doesn't find a *:System:Start program first. -- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems Apple II System Software Engineer | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.