Re: Basic Programming Question -- Music

[Pim Blokland <nipp@plane.nl>]

bobryan9@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> There was an article in Nibble that explained how to do it.  It
> included source code.  Check the FTP sites.  TWOVOICESND is one of the
> programs, I think.  Its in the SOUND directory on one of the sites.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

> > You can produce stereo sound by toggling the speaker and the cassette
> > output simultaneously though. That works.
> 
> This works, yes.  I've never seen any program that does this except for
> one of my own where I was experimenting.

This was in an article as well, but I don't remember from where I got
it. Could have been Nibble or Call-Apple or inCider. I looked for it,
but couldn't find it.

> David Empson, I think your SAM comment may have been incorrect.  Isn't
> SAM a program that does voice, not an interface card?  I downloaded a
> program called SAM (I thought it was Software Automated Mouth), and it
> would make the Apple II talk without a speech card.  It used pre-
> recorded pheonomes (spelling?) to speak.  It sounded OK.

That's odd, I'm sure the program SAM does require a card in the Apple
II. There are other versions of the program too, for other computers
(C64 I remember, but others were mentioned in the docs as well) that
does not need extra hardware, but for the Apple it does, even though
the name (Software Automatic Mouth) does suggest otherwise.

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