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In article <8911280804.AA19421@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, MAXG@SUVM.BITNET writes:

>Well I've finally taken the plunge and started playing with sound on
>Spectre1.9.  I'm using system 6.0.2, since this is what an informed
>source recommended I use on my MacSE.  The problem I am having is as
>follows:  When I get the control panel from the apple menu, I do not see
>the sound cdev in the left hand window (for that matter, I don't see the
>start-up device icon, either).  I have the correct versions of the
>control panel and the sound cdev (because they are the same ones I'm
>using on my SE, and I have access to them on that machine's control
>panel). Does anyone have any ideas?  I don't think this has anything to
>do with sound on the Spectre, because I haven't even gotten to hearing
>the actual sound yet...or--is it the case that Spectre doesn't actually
>support Apple's Sound cdev, and I need to get another?
>Well, as usual...thanks in advance for any replies...post here or email
>directly to me at: maxg@suvm (bitnet) or ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu
>(internet).
>---Gerry

Spectre (as of 2.3) does not support the new Sound Manager routines Apple added
in System Tools 6.0.2 and above.  Yell at Dave Small.  :-)  The Sound Master
CDEV works, however, since it doesn't use the new Sound Manager.

The Sound CDEV (and the World CDEV, too) will not show up unless the system has
extended parameter RAM.  It stores the settings in there.  The Spectre has
neither extended nor standard "battery backed-up" parameter RAM.  Only the Mac
Plus and up has extended PRAM.  A hack, "Disk Param", will simulate the normal
PRAM by saving it as a disk file.  The extended PRAM can be simulated with
another hack, XPRAM, which was originally written for 512KE owners.  Eventually,
some nice Mac programmer will write one slick INIT just for Spectre owners (or
Mac owners with dead PRAM).  :-)

Also, if you press ALTERNATE and the "+" key on the numeric keypad, the system
will think you are a Macintosh Plus (which, it assumes, must have extended
PRAM).  NOTE: For some reason, it doesn't completely think you are a Plus if
you are running System Tools 6.0.4.  It normally thinks you are a 512KE.

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