MP3 encoding using MagiCMac (11.07.2001 - 08:10 Uhr)

The current version of Aniplayer enables the conversion of audio data into the popular MP3 format on the Atari with the help of the libmp3lame library. However, this requires an FPU, which is not integrated in the 68k emulation (MC 68020) of the Mac OS. In order to be able to create MP3s under MagiC on the Macintosh an FPU emulation is necessary. A commercial solution is "PowerFPU", a system extension that completely emulates an FPU even on today's G4 machines and therefore also simulates the presence of the floating point unit to MagiCMac. PowerFPU costs US $ 75. The freeware version SoftFPU from the same manufacturer, on the other hand, does not work under the current "Classic" Mac OS 9.1 and can only be used with older versions of the Mac operating system. The installation is very simple: the system extension simply has to be dragged onto the system folder of the Power Mac, the Mac OS does the rest on its own. In an initial test, other Atari programs with FPU support under MagiC also reacted "positively" to PowerFPU. The emulation is therefore a sensible addition to a MagiCMac system, even if it is not quite cheap. (tr)

http://www.jna.com/pfpu.html