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Some info here, claims a 68020 at 50Mhz (@10 MIPS) can just pull it off: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=78994 https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=78
by detrites 4y ago
Some info here, claims a 68020 at 50Mhz (@10 MIPS) can just pull it off:
https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=78994 https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=78994
Might mean an A500 (@1.4 MIPS) could do it if you were happy waiting 10-15 minutes for the audio of a 3 min mp3 to begin.
- Someone 4y agoI don’t think a stock A500 could do that, having 1MB RAM, max. Where would you store 3 minutes of uncompressed audio? At CD quality, that’s about 30MB.
- detrites 4y agoGiven the likely output quality you'd probably choose something like 32Kbps encoding for the mp3, which should fit 3 mins in 720KB. (Not sure how it'd affect CPU requirements?) It's not that bad-sounding: http://www.knowzy.com/Computers/Audio/Digital_Audio_Files/audio_files/Israel_Kamakawiwo%27ole-2001-Alone_In_IZ_World-10-Over_the_Rainbow-Short-32Kbps.mp3 http://www.knowzy.com/Computers/Audio/Digital_Audio_Files/au...
- Someone 4y agoBut that machine cannot decompress that at real time. The comment I replied to said that would be solvable by adding a few minutes of buffering, but that requires a buffer to hold uncompressed audio.
- Razengan 4y agoWow, how far we have come. MOD is superior to MP3 anyway :)
- pixelfarmer 4y agoI think a stock Atari Falcon is capable of playing mp3 thanks to the DSP (56001), but it still isn't a walk in the park even with that (in combination with a 68030 as the main CPU).
- lokedhs 4y agoIt took many years until MP3 decoding on a stock Falcon was possible. While the machine was generally available, there was no MP3 implementation, and the belief was that it was impossible.