Re: Yet Another Hardware Question :)

[Steve Jensen <sjensen@primenetyourknife.com>]

Michael A. Balfour <mab22@po.CWRU.Edu> writes:

: In my further quest to intimately understand the Apple IIs hardware in
: the hopes of providing a truly faithful emulation experience, I've moved
: on to disk drive emulation (it's easier to test the rest if I can load
: and save my test programs :).

: As with the graphics, I've got enough documentation to make a functional
: emulation, but I'd like to handle the crazy cases as well.  That being
: said, does anybody have any programs that make the disk drive make cool
: noises?  I seem to recall seeing a program once that made the disk drive
: sound like it was having sex, does anybody have this or other amusing
: programs?  I'd like to see how they work, what timing assumptions
: they're making, etc.

If you want to see your 5.25 drives "gettin' jiggie" take a look 
at a file called Chuggachugga on the Beagle Brothers
Silicone Salad disk.
 
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/utility/programming
/Silicon_Salad.dsk.gz
 
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