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& \tbI Spectre Menus inserts, the Spectre would be unusable on those machines; the continual glitches "lock up" the Mac operating system, making it think its operator has gone berserk inserting and ejecting disks. EDITOR: A drive functioning over and above the call of duty ... If you de-select this option, you're responsible for pressing Fl/F2 to notify the Mac OS of inserts/ ejects. Otherwise, Mac mode will just sit there with a flashing A or B on the screen. Goodies Menu Figure 15 Sound: There are three options with sound. .. The first is no sound at all. This also disables Sound at the Macintosh "Device Manager" level; literally, when programs try to do sound, the Mac will reply, "Huh? Sound? Whazzat?" to them. Selecting this option crashes a few programs, such as the World Builder Adventure Construction Set. .. The sccond is Sound - II, or sound at 11 khz. This is probably the option you want to usc. 87
Spectre Menus • The third is Sound - 22, or sound at 22 khz. This isn't such a good option at the moment; it slows the system beyond bel ief. Try it and you'll see what I mean. Telling you how Mac sound works is a bit beyond the scope of this manual. Unless you're familiar wi th digitized sound, interrupts, and so forth, it's going to look pretty techno-geeky. Essentially, the Mac gets sound for free from its disk hardware; the ST has to work hard to produce sound the Mac way. Doing it completely the same way as the Mac takes up to 75% of the total processor, and just beats the poor 68000 to death; you'll see this as drastically slowed speed. This is 22 khz mode. I put in a "compromise" option, 11 khz, which works half as hard, and only loses a small portion of the sound to be output (the really high frequency stuff). Because I've been to a Van Halen concert, I can't hear sounds that high frequency anymore to begin wi th, so it doesn't matter to me. Because it's only making the ST work half as hard, you lose about 40% of the processor. Now the slowdown only occurs while sound is actually playing. For things like Beeps and Boinks and digital sounds (believe me, you want to download SoundMaster and some sounds, and check them out; they're hilarious), this is just fine. For sound during, say, an arcade game, this may not be so good, in which case, just shut it off from the front menu. Version 1.9F of Spectre had the original "let's try it" release of sound. It worked okay, but had a nasty habit of not shutting off when it wasn't needed, and thus slowed the system down a lot of the time. This has been fixed. Alt Video: This option forces the Mac to shift video downwards from its normal location. (see Figure 15, page 87) The sound buffer immediately follows the video buffer in the Mac memory map; because the ST's screen takes up 32,000 bytes, as opposed to the Mac's 22,000 bytes, the ST screen collides with the Mac sound buffer. This causes sounds to plot onscreen. By shifting video downwards about 10,000 bytes in memory, this collision is avoided. With this, the error handler and sound handler do not plot onscreen. It will be necessary to run in Alternate Video mode when you are using sound. 88
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