Re: How do I program sound on my IIGS from Basic?

[Pim Blokland <pDOTblokland@spcgroup.nl>]

Supertimer wrote:
> 
> Others have wrote how to click the A2 speaker in BASIC...however,
> this sounds horrid and is definitely unbefitting of an Apple IIGS which
> has an Ensoniq sound chip capable of up to 32 simultaneous sounds

Yes, and there's another reason why you shouldn't use 1-bit sound on a
GS: You don't know what the clock speed is! There are Apples that run at
1 MHz, 2.8 MHz, 3.5 MHz, 4, 6.25, etc. and it's impossible to calculate
this from Basic. So you'll never know what the sound will sound like.

As for the Ensonic chip, I believe I know someone who once wrote a set
of machine language interface routines which let you access the Sound
Toolset from within Applesoft Basic. So I'll check if I can contact him
and ask him if he'll release those routines into the public domain.
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Pim Blokland
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