System Requirements: Apple IIgs ROM 1 or Rom 3 GS/OS System 6.0 or better 1.25MB or RAM (or enough to boot GS/OS) A fast hard disk drive with 6MB or more of free space Recommended: good external speakers or stereo system (plugged into the built in GS headphone jack). Streamsound Demo: The purpose of this demonstration is to show that the Apple IIgs can play the long sounds commonly found on the web if people are willing to write players to crack the format. Here is a 5.7MB song ("Superstar" from Carpenters, a classic favorite) bundled with the Oversampler freeware player. The sound has been converted to the binary format standard for IIgs raw sounds and will open using Oversampler with the correct playback rate. Set oversampling to 2X for the best effect. The quality of the sound is surprisingly good when routed through external speakers. It sounds more like FM radio than an Apple II computer. Oversampler is a streaming player, which means that it plays as it reads the sample from disk. This is how the Macintosh, PC, and other computers are able to play long sounds without running out of memory. As long as you have enough memory to boot GS/OS (~1.25MB, maybe 1.5MB) and you have a reasonably fast hard disk drive, you can play sounds megabytes in size. The streaming playback technique also demonstrates a possible method for digitizing large sounds without also having large amounts of RAM. All current IIgs software digitizes sounds to RAM. The length of the sound that can be recorded is limited by the amount of memory that you have installed. If someone implements a streaming digitizing program, then the IIgs can digitize samples directly to disk (and the length would be limited only by the largest file that can be created on that disk). With a removable cartridge drive, you will be able to create your own alblums.