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From: ryanb@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Ryan Baucom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: SoundSmith problems on 1.125 GS
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Date: 12 Apr 91 07:56:10 GMT
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   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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