This is so cool. I mean, I would've futzed around with HyperCard for 100 hours before getting half of this to work. Good job!
For all the posters that are going on about MP3 decoding, yes, we remember how decoding MP3s used to take up 80% of our Pentium 120 CPU cycles. Until MMX came along. Those dancing fab engineers saved our CPU cycles. Anyway, who knows how Ogg Vorbis would've decoded from Spotify back then - probably not well!
The major advances since then have been out-of-order instruction execution and SIMD instructions (although we still don't have general vector processors, as Hennessy & Patterson still lament in the 5th edition).
(My mother used to tell me I was getting a 486 instead of a Pentium 66 when I bas being a brat.. the terror it used to strike in me! unreal.)
For all the posters that are going on about MP3 decoding, yes, we remember how decoding MP3s used to take up 80% of our Pentium 120 CPU cycles. Until MMX came along. Those dancing fab engineers saved our CPU cycles. Anyway, who knows how Ogg Vorbis would've decoded from Spotify back then - probably not well!
The major advances since then have been out-of-order instruction execution and SIMD instructions (although we still don't have general vector processors, as Hennessy & Patterson still lament in the 5th edition).
(My mother used to tell me I was getting a 486 instead of a Pentium 66 when I bas being a brat.. the terror it used to strike in me! unreal.)