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From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
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Subject: Re: Sound Driver vs. Sound Manager
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Date: 7 Oct 90 17:05:16 GMT
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In article <10539.270e4548@amherst.bitnet> mbabramowicz@amherst.bitnet writes:
>Tech Notes really seem to discourage use of the Sound Driver, so I'd like to
>include Sound Manager routines in a game that I've written. However, I don't
>want to lose compatibility with old Macs and therefore want to have a simple
>test to determine whether or not a given computer has Sound Manager
>capabilities. What Mac type or system software versions will guarantee that the
>Sound Manager is present?

  The Sound Manager is always available on the Mac II machines.  System 6.0x
supported it on machines with the 128K ROMs.  I don't think it works with
the really old Macs with the 64K ROMs, but since these haven't been supported
in a while, I wouldn't worry about it.

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