Fiddled around a bit tonight with the iici.
Got the Radius DSP extension and put it in the folder. Photoshop is on the way, so I will see soon how that all goes.
I dorked around with various versions of system 7. It appears that the Powercache control panel doesn't like 7.6.1. Didn't like 7.5.5 either. In both cases the machine boots, but just as the desktop finishes loading, it locks up. I am guessing based on some searching around that 7.5 is the latest system that it plays well with. My IIci normally runs 7.1. 7.6.1 is not as fast, being a weighter system, and especially since it can only be run without the accelerator.
mpegdec almost works with a 128Kbps mp3 file at 25MHz in 7.6.1 with 32MB of RAM. I was curious to see whether it would work better at 50MHz under 7.1, but mpegdec's notification that OS7, 4800MB of RAM, Drag and Drop, Sound Manager 3.0, and Open Transport are needed. I thought I might pull the extensions from 7.6.1 but no dice. The only parts that I could see were the 5 elements of Open Transport. Drag Manager and Sound Manager were not visible.
I'll look around to see if there is a way to render an mp3 file to 96kbps or some such as well. Not that I don't have an iPod to play music, just want to see where the capabilities lie.
Best,
John
Got the Radius DSP extension and put it in the folder. Photoshop is on the way, so I will see soon how that all goes.
I dorked around with various versions of system 7. It appears that the Powercache control panel doesn't like 7.6.1. Didn't like 7.5.5 either. In both cases the machine boots, but just as the desktop finishes loading, it locks up. I am guessing based on some searching around that 7.5 is the latest system that it plays well with. My IIci normally runs 7.1. 7.6.1 is not as fast, being a weighter system, and especially since it can only be run without the accelerator.
mpegdec almost works with a 128Kbps mp3 file at 25MHz in 7.6.1 with 32MB of RAM. I was curious to see whether it would work better at 50MHz under 7.1, but mpegdec's notification that OS7, 4800MB of RAM, Drag and Drop, Sound Manager 3.0, and Open Transport are needed. I thought I might pull the extensions from 7.6.1 but no dice. The only parts that I could see were the 5 elements of Open Transport. Drag Manager and Sound Manager were not visible.
I'll look around to see if there is a way to render an mp3 file to 96kbps or some such as well. Not that I don't have an iPod to play music, just want to see where the capabilities lie.
Best,
John