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In article <oZwoIem00UzxQ2EEwC@andrew.cmu.edu> mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose) writes:
> 
> can anyone think of a reason why the new Moose (as in Talking, the CDEV
> version) should not work on an SE/30 (sys 6.04, Macintalk installed, 5
> meg memory)?  I'd like to find out about this before buying it.

I can't say as to that, specifically.  However, a note about the future...
Apple's latest word on Macintalk is that it will _NOT_ work with the
new Sound Manager which is included in System 7.0.

Macintalk apparently pokes data directly into the sound hardware on the
older Macs... a technique which doesn't work on the Mac II and other
machines with the Apple Sound Chip.  The Sound Manager in System 6.0.x
attempts to emulate the older hardware's behavior, by trapping writes
to the nonexistent hardware and generating equivalent commands to the
Sound Chip.  There are some serious problems with this emulation... it
locks out all other Sound Manager access, including SysBeep(), and you
must issue an ExitToShell() to reset the compatibility mode and get
your sound hardware back.

Apple is rewriting the Sound Manager for System 7.0, to supply some
long-sought-after features (finally, REAL stereo sound capability!).
They've apparently decided that the old hardware-emulation mode is
not compatible with the new Sound Manager design, and are going to drop
it.

So... if you buy Talking Moose now, it'll stop working when you
install System 7.0... unless somebody comes up with a complete
reimplementation of Macintalk which is Sound Manager compatible.
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