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Jocelyn Lavin <jocelyn@wardle.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi! Me again, with *another* problem. 
> 
> I'd like to be able to listen to live broadcasts of US baseball games via
> broadcast.com (I'm a big fan.

Have you seen your doctor about this affliction?  ;-)

> and it's all getting a bit too exciting to
> follow just via email reports and twice-weekly Channel 5 shows!)
> 
> Their site tells me I need Real Player 5.0 and NetShow. However, both need
> a PowerPC processor, and I have an LCIII (i.e. 68030). The RealPlayer site
> does give the alternative of the RealAudio Player 3.0, but even that needs
> a 68040 with FPU.

Try this:

http://www.mactimes.com/lowend/software/Pseud040.sea.hqx

it'll fool software into thinking you've got a 68040 (it emulates the
extra instructions).

> I do have 36MB RAM and am running system 7.6 (thanks to people here!) but
> can't see a way round the processor problem without getting an upgrade
> card, which would create other problems (not least the cost). Is there any
> way of getting RealAudio on my Mac as it is?

http://christie.prognet.com/products/player/blackjack/

might help.

The problem is that most RealAudio streams available come in at too high
a rate for the RealAudio player to handle on old Macs; it's not
efficient enough to work `real time' without an FPU and 68040 at the
higher speeds.

btw, uk.comp.sys.mac might be a useful place to ask this sort of thing.

Rowland.

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In article <1deyb6s.1wzv8l1brdskgN@p42.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:

>> I'd like to be able to listen to live broadcasts of US baseball games via
>> broadcast.com (I'm a big fan.
>
>Have you seen your doctor about this affliction?  ;-)

Hey, it's great! Tonight might well be the night the 37-year-old record for
most home runs in a season is broken......

>Try this:
>
>http://www.mactimes.com/lowend/software/Pseud040.sea.hqx
>
>it'll fool software into thinking you've got a 68040 (it emulates the
>extra instructions).

That's clever! Thanks, I'll give it a go.

>The problem is that most RealAudio streams available come in at too high
>a rate for the RealAudio player to handle on old Macs; it's not
>efficient enough to work `real time' without an FPU and 68040 at the
>higher speeds.

Oh, I see - I wondered what the reason was.