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From: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: 'only_ste.lzh'
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.023438.220@lsuc.on.ca>
Date: 5 Jun 91 02:34:38 GMT
Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
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     Well, today I finally got a chance to try out this demo kit.
Having verified the file I uploaded it to a local BBS in its original
form.  I thought about adding a documentation file, but changed
my mind.  It needs one, but frankly I was just too tired at the time.

     The music is indeed *very* good.  So is the overall finish of the
package.  The only thing I don't like about that is the concept of the
packaging as an autobooting disk in an MSA file.

     But I'm a bit worried about the comments I've been hearing
about this demo.  I don't want to sound overly negative about this,
but with all the enthusiasm of the postings, I'm wondering if
somebody might end up showing this around expecting to impress
some heavy duty "stereo nut", or a really hip musician who has
a few thousand tied up in Yamaha and Roland, or even some of
the other brands of computers.  Don't think you're going to impress
an Amiga owner or even an old Apple II owner who has a good music
card -- say, 1982 vintage.  8 bit resolution is 8 bit resolution and
though this demo is really good, it's not going to "blow [anybody]
away" who is really experienced in the field.  It shows aliasing at
times and even clipping, and the dynamic range is generally flat.
That's not the fault of the programmers.  It's simply the limits of
the hardware showing themselves.

  Guys, it's *really good*!  In fact, it may well be the best we'll
ever see on the STE as it now stands and indeed it's about as good
as anything I've heard on the Amigas and Tandy MS-DOS boxes.  But
it's not better. . . .
-- 
Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880
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