Hi, how do you record your own singing, i would like to do that with my kids On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 01:29 AM, John A. Ardelli wrote:
> On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 08:56 , John Teffer wrote: > >> I mean, in 1985 people were basically doing the same things with their >> C64s >> we are doing today with our iMacs. Word processing, email, record >> keeping, >> playing games... we may have 2048 times the RAM we had back then, but >> I do >> not think that things are anywhere near 2048 times as entertaining, or >> efficient, or cool. > > Maybe for most people, but there are things I do on this machine today > that I could never have even APPROACHED doing on a Commodore 64. > > I watch DVD movies with full quality digital sound. > > I record my own singing, digitally mixing it with the music tracks. > > I browse web pages that include integrated movies, images, animations, > and even small applications! > > I view photo quality images. > > I search the Internet for high quality digital music (MP3s). > > Even the simpler tasks, like word processing, are MUCH easier on this > system than I ever thought possible. I tried to write a screenplay on > a > Commodore 64, but it simply did not even have CLOSE to the processing > power necessary to do the formatting (screenplays are easy to read, but > a real b**** to format on a conventional word processor). Today, I use > Final Draft, a word processor specifically TAILORED to screenplay > formatting. I'm astonished at how easy it makes writing compared to > the > C64. > > The 64 was probably the most powerful 8-bit computer ever made. But it > still had limitations. Its resolution was limited to 340X200 or > thereabouts, with only 16 colors. Even the most creative Commodore 64 > programmers in history couldn't make the 64 into a machine like > today's. Even those who use their computers for simple things that the > 64 CAN do still, occasionally, look at photos and listen to digital > sound as a rule, things you could never do on a 64. > > (Actually, technically speaking, the 64 COULD do digital sound. Some > video games (including one memorable "Three Stooges" game I once > played) > had digitized voices and sounds. But the resolution was only 8-bit. > The sound quality was horrendous by hi-fi and CD standards. Still, the > fact that the 64 could even DO digital sound was pretty amazing for an > 8-bit machine). > > Also, the increase in power has made it possible to make computers far > eaiser to use than they ever have. The increased power makes the GUI > interfaces of Mac OS X, Linux, and yes even Windows possible. The best > GUIs on 8-bit machines, like GEOS on the 64, certainly made the > machines > easy to use, but they pushed the limits of what the hardware could do. > Today's GUIs give you much better control over the systems and don't > take up NEARLY as much of available processing power (though still > quite > a bit). > > So most of the increased abilities have been burned up in making the > fancy GUIs and making the computers easier to use. You have to admit, > formatting a disk is a lot easier on Mac OS X than on a Commodore 64. > On a Mac, you just go into Disk Utility and select "Erase Disk." On > the > Commodore 64, after choosing a name and an ID for the disk, to format > it > you would type: > > OPEN 15,8,15,"N0:DISK NAME,ID":CLOSE 15 > > And, of course, a CD-RW holds as much as a whopping 4344 Commodore 64 > floppies... ;) > > So I think people are using their computers for much cooler stuff now, > especially now when over 90% of all computers in general use today have > Internet access. Power of a computer aside, there's only so much you > can do with a computer in a "vacuum." > > John A. 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