Hello all,

would anyone know how I can play some amiga games
music in windows. I can play most of them, but there are a few that I can't seem to play. From an Amiga
game called turrican. Iv'e tried winamp, but it don't
work. Is there a player that can play, and even convert
them under windows 9x,Me. Below are the file type names.
MDAT.Turrican_0-Intro
MDAT.Turrican_2-Inside
SMPL.Turrican_2-Inside
SMPL.Turrican_0-Intro
Much appreciate any advice please.

Thank you

Russy

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Hey, I have just done my first website at Http://www.essex1.com/people/luke/luke there is a link that goes to "my music". On that page I have links to MP3 files of songs I have written( a few anyway). When you click the links you get to download the song..... My question is .... ??? How do I set it up to pull up there media player rather than leting them download the song???

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I have made some significant improvements to my MacOS 8.1 PPC that I thought I should share with other people who might also be running an older MacOS system.

All of these tricks use simple techniques which are likely to be stable but can be easily reversed if needed. The basic requirements for use are a PowerPC Mac not currently being subjected to any cruel or unusual sytem or application software.

If you can, create a 515 MB partition on your hard drive, and rename it "Virtual RAM" or something like that. Using the Memory control panel, (or Get Info, in MacOS 9+) set up 512 MB Virtual Memory to reside on this partition. If you have a spare hard drive, you could use this too. It works even better if you reformat or at least defragment this volume first.

Use freeware DiskCharmer to format MacOS Standard format volumes. Extended Format (HFS+, or HFS plus) could potentially slow down any disk-intensive audio programs, as it is a form of disk compression. DiskCharmer formats disks with a little bit more space without using disk compression. It just leave out uneeded files (Trash folder, Temporary Items, Desktop Folder, catalog files etc [Many of these were added to MacOS at system 7, but aren't needed for basic MacOS volume access])

It's also a good idea to update all your hard disk drives with newer drivers. <b>Drive Setup 8.5.1</b> is a nice one that works for old and new drives, and fixes some old errors. You don't need to reformat a drive to update it's hardware drivers.

Drive Setup 8.5.1 (and Disk First Aid 8.6) can be extracted using freeware <b>Tome Viewer</b>. Tome viewer lets you line-item decompress apple Tome archives without decompressing the whole thing... just take what you need. I did this to get what I needed from the MacOS 8.5.1 Update without actually upgrading to MacOS 8.5.1--I just extracted from the Tome files what I needed. You can use this on any MacOS Tome.

OK

Then, I basically installed the following extensions in my active system folder:

<b>Not Virtual!</b> = lets you use up to 512MB Virtual RAM with fewer errors, and programs just think Virtual RAM is turned off. Very nice way around Logic's RAM barrier--lets you test run memory-hogging programs.

<b>CPU Charger</b> = makes the CPU run more efficiently, and speeds up everything. Very nice enhancement--startup process is faster too.

<b>FinderRAM</b> = this is an older control panel, but it does no harm to the current MacOS's. It's a way to control how much RAM the Finder has. Be sure to keep this file unlocked so it saves your changes, and never set it to anything lower than about 8080 KB. I have found that 12000 KB is a nice low number that doesn't cause Finder Errors but is a little lower than what Apple gives the Finder.

<b>Mac OS Purge</b> = a tiny application that just compresses the system RAM, so that you have more space to run programs. This is great for all MacOS's, even sytem 7. It doesn't always give back that much RAM, but I'll take what I can get. It's best to run this program right after startup finishes for best results, but you can run it at anytime and a graph of the results will show up.

<b>WriteThrough</b> = This program I only added recently, because I wasn't sure if it's result would be positive, but it's turned out to be a godsend. It's also freeware like the rest, and was also found at the <A HREF="http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html">MIT Info-Mac Archives page</A>. WriteThrough flushes the disk cache more often so that disk cache errors don't have enough time to accumulate. With MacOS cache setting (in Memory Control Panel) at a minimum of 256K and no more than 512K, you will be have the advantages of disk caching (speedier folders/windows/directory) without getting tons and tons of volume, block, bundle bit, catalog, and directory errors.

Speaking of bundle bits, a good way to know if an application is dangerous or not is to check if it has a bundle resource (ResEdit code 'BNDL'). All modern applications have a bundle resource so that they can have a set of icons and filetypes for themselves and the files that they open or modify/save. If an application does'nt have a 'BNDL' (bundle) resource, then it could be trouble. It's less important for control panels to have bundles, but many do as well. If you have a program that can set turn the bundle bit flag on, then you should to that to all of your applications. The one's that don't have a bundle will show up when your finder Icons get screwey. Naturally, the way to fix screwey finder icons is to delete the desktop database files and force the finder to rebuild them at startup. Rebuilding the desktop from scratch can actually speed up your system too, because it gets rid of loaded BNDL (bundle) and FREF (file reference) resources which aren't in use.

I'm not advocating that you get too deeply into this kind of thing, but it's safe to download freeware
<b>Trash Desktop</b> for fixing desktop errors more efficiently and easily than tools such as TechTool (which can corrupt your desktop).

Last but not least, freeware control panel <b>"Zap"</b> lets you reset your troublesome PRAM without needing to reboot. After you reset your PRAM, be sure to turn off AppleShare in your chooser control panel, check your General Control Panel settings, keyboard, mouse, and sound settings. Resetting the PRAM (Zapping the PRAM) sets you computer up to a few default settings, so it's important to put them back where you need them. Resetting the PRAM is often recommended to do if you've tried everything else to get your computer to work normally and it's still acting quirky. If you have to re-register software after you reset your PRAM, that could be an indication of which program is possibly messing with your PRAM behind your back.

Oh... and some other speed enhancers:

Any tools which turn off or speed up window zooming will make your mac faster. Also, any control panels which speed up or amplify your mouse settings. I have two such programs, but I forget what they are called at the moment.

In closing, I'd like to say that one should avoid becoming too attached to the Finder. While the Finder is the baseline application for all MacOS's, it's by no means necessary. In fact, I find the Finder to be the worst aspect of every MacOS release since system 6.5.5.

Once you are up and running your favorite audio programs, there's no reason to keep running the Finder. It's just taking up 4 MB to 24 MB of RAM that you could use in your audio program(s). So, download any freeware application killer such as <b>AppWatcher</b and the finder will quit safely and quietly at the click of a button. <b>Antifinder</b> is another good solution for those running MacOS 9. On my Mac, I have installed <b>DiskTop</b> INSIDE of AppWatcher, so that after I quit the finder, I can still manage my files but with much more RAM available. In order to accomplish this, I used <b>FONT/DA MOVER</b> leftover from my System 6.5.5 disks!!!!! It still works, and it works FINE.

Well, this has been a very technically involved posting, but I these are the kinds of <b>HACKS</b> that make computing more smooth. At least they did for me.

Since I implemented this approach, Norton Utilities no longer reveals tons and tons of drive errors, and my programs hardly ever crash. Right about now, the only things which crash my Mac are graphics programs and when I try to get too tricky with running RAM disks off of RAM disks off of Virtual RAM, and protected memory stuff like that (hint: RamBunctious™ rocks!!!)

Happy computing gators.

Bigprocess.com

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hi,

How can I play MP3 slowly or quickly ?
Can I convert the normal MP3 into a slower version?

thx in advance.

frank