Re: Apple II Sound

[dastar@crl.com (Sam Ismail)]

Charles P. Hobbs (transit@primenet.com) wrote:

: Two programs with "speech" stand out clearly in my memory:

: * that old "Calculator" demo (it displayed a calculator on the
: screen, and spoke the numbers and functions as you typed them in)

Never heard of this one but...

: * a type-in program from Compute that let users digitize speech
: through the casette port (I still have this one lying around . . .)

This is what got me started with digitized audio on the Apple.  I remember
it well.  I always wanted to know how it was done and one day while
perusing the latest issue of Compute! in a Target store I read this
article.  I couldn't afford to buy the magazine (gimme a break, I was
only 15 and didn't have a job or allowance) so I just copied the hex code
down on a piece of paper (it was only like 40 bytes) and then went home
and coded it in.  I think I still have that piece of paper in my notes
somewhere.  From then on it was fun with the cassette ports.

-- 

Sam
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