| Hiyah!
I'm a relative newbie to this list but run csound on my atari's.
You can run csound on a machine with less than 4Mb, and you will
definitely need a hard drive (I have a 14Mb falcon with 540Mb SCSI HD +
zip drive).
It WILL be slow...
The problems arise when you want to play back the audio! Csound o/p files
can be any size, and if you want to use something like Replay ST, the
files will have to fit into your available RAM, which won't be much on a
4Mb machine.
I run MiNT on my falcon, and am in the process of writing a /dev/audio
that supports all the features of the falcon audio hardware i.e. up to 8
tracks of 16-bit audio at various sample rates. The beauty of this is that
you can just 'cat' your samples at /dev/audio and it could be a 1Gb
file!!!
I believe there are other applications 'out there' that allow you to play
audio 'direct from disk'.
Anyway, you can run csound on an atari: go for as much ram as you can
afford, but at least 2, and I would suggest that an STe/TT/Falcon is the
machine to go for, as it has superior audio hardware compared to an
STF(M).
Hope this helps :-)
John Blakeley
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, application specific wrote:
> Could someone please tell me what the minimum system requirements are to
> run Csound on an Atari?
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> Thank you
> Gerald
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