vMac Sound (or lack of sound?)

sshrugg · Post by **sshrugg** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:58 pm

Hey. All I can get out of vMac is that "BEEP!", yet it has a sound menu, and all that jazz. Is there something I need to do to make some noise, or is this just typical of vMac (WinXP version)?

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:48 am

I think that's all it does, but I can't remember. I'll have a look. vMacs not that hard to set up.

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:16 am

I get the startup beep. I also tried MacWrite and MacPaint, and they beeped when I tried to close the programme and it asked if I want to save the changes.

I don't have anything else to test it with.

sshrugg · Post by **sshrugg** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 5:55 pm

Lawn Zapper!

EDIT: Actually, it's probably worth mentioning that this game (and others like it) are the reasons I posted this question. Other emulators don't handle this really old stuff as well as vMac, which does a phenomenal job! I don't even have a mac old enough for this stuff

Any suggestions?

sshrugg · Post by **sshrugg** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:18 pm

I still can't get sound going. Documentation on vMac is really hard to find, anymore. What I have noticed, however, is that over at The Macintosh Garden they give instructions for certain games under "notes". For quite a few of them, it says "For sound, use 68k Mac or vMac". (for example, on James Bond 007)

I saw this on a bunch of games, and I'm thinking if there's a sound menu in vMac, and the creator of this site keeps telling you to use vMac for sound, there must be a sound feature, right?

sshrugg · Post by **sshrugg** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:21 pm

The answer is called Mini vMac.

I never knew the difference before. Mini vMac was intended to be a simpler version of vMac for the novice programmer to get introduced to the source code, but since vMac development has been on halt for so long, Mini vMac has actually become a better emulator in a lot of respects. Yes, it plays Lawn Zapper with the kooky music and the spaztic gophers. Sweet.

This is probably common knowledge to most of you, but I figured I'd post the info here for people like me who find the thread. Thanks!

Stephen Coates · Post by **Stephen Coates** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:25 pm

I've never really been interested in Mini vMac and I didn't know it was better than vMac, but I did know that it had been updated recently.

Now when was the last time vMac got updated? Around 2000? That's a guess. I don't know for sure.

vMac Sound (or lack of sound?)

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