[ValVashon]

Is anybody out there using their old PowerBook to play streaming audio from the internet? I realize that there may be inherent limitations in the processor speed and modem connection speed, but I'm having trouble finding a player that is compatible with the 68xxx processor in this PowerBook. Even the oldest RealPlayer I could find said it could not be installed because of the fact that there is no "FPU" in the PowerBook or something like that. Are there any old players still available that will play .pls and .ram files/streams? I'm looking to be able to listen to baseball games if I'm away from home or the audio stream from my favorite (now shutdown) pirate radio station. I haven't contacted RealNetworks yet, but that's my next step. Thanks!

Val

[tooki]

Since this is solely a software issue, I am moving this to the Internet Software forum.

But for what it's worth, the readme in SoundApp says that no 68K Macs are fast enough to decode MP3 data fast enough for playback, and I believe that RealAudio is similar.

tooki