Using an ipod shuffle with 8-bit machines

Pete Turnbull pete at dunnington.plus.com
Sun Dec 11 07:48:56 CST 2005


On Dec 11 2005,  8:22, James Fogg wrote:
> > Subject: Using an ipod shuffle with 8-bit machines
> >
> > I found this link yesterday :
> >
> > http://sbeam.dk/blog/?p=9
> >
> > I thought some people here might find it interesting, I have
> > done similiar things myself with a portable cd-player and
> > with a pc sound card. A bit expensive just for this, but if
> > you get the quality quite high you can vastly increase the
> > loading speed.
>
>
> I would expect the lossy compression of MP3 would drop precious bits.

It doesn't.  Some of us have been doing this for years.  It's not new
:-)

Almost all the games and commercial software I have for my Exidy
Sorcerer are MP3s which load at 1200 baud.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York


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