there's web site for old macs with some old sound apps
that are now free. even a sequencer in there somewhere.
good luck,
a
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 04:17 AM, lysaabi wrote:
quoted 42 lines KB* wrote:> KB* wrote:
>
>> I have a Powerbook 5300cs laptop and was wondering where I can find
>> old programs for audio/midi that I can download for
> system 7.5?
>
> from my vintage Mac secrets books(your 5300cs hadn't appeared yet):
> 1. Use resedit to open all the programs and games on your harddrive -
> look for snd resources. Open a snd resoruce and
> highlight one fo
> the sounds in the list. A new menu, called snd, appears on the menu
> bar. It lets you play the sound, and record it.
> 2. There's always text to speech - always fun to make it curse
> 3. sndsampler, - which came on the cd with my Mac secrets book - and
> which I'm attaching to this email. It's only 464k so it
> should
> get through to most people. (ok, so yell at me for sending it to the
> whole list)
>
> You may need to upgrade your os to run whatever you do find. Depending
> on your ram, you can go up to OS9, maybe the first
> version of
> X. Around there Apple abandoned the 603(x) archtecture for the G
> architecture. However, you can only go up to 64meg of ram,
> and the
> cpu bus speed is only 40MHz, which may leave you waiting for
> throughput.
>
> Other than that, I'm not aware of anything that was out in the late
> nineties when your machine was released.
>
> Sorry if you already know this, just trying to be helpful.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Lisa
>
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