Re: Wings of Fury Engine Sounds

[drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur)]

Donald Lee <leed@sfsu.edu> wrote:

>	And since we are here, anyone know why the sounds were sent over
>the cassette port anyway?  Was it a design feature, or it just happened to
>be that way?  I know certain programs back in the old days asked
>specifically if you wanted the sound through the cassette port for better
>sound quality (I remember a music program from Softdisk that did that),
>but the games never mentioned it and sound quality didn't get better, just
>louder if you wanted to.  

Programming the cassette port is EXACTLY like programming the internal
speaker.  A quick & easy POKE/sector edit will redirect all sound from
the internal speaker to the port*.  The quality *does* go up, IMHO,
just because your sound is coming out "real" speakers, as opposed to a
tiny thing clipped to the //e / ][+'s metal baseplate.  With some
programs, the quality increase is *very* noticeable.

*Several POKEs/sector edits may be necessary.  If so, you can redirect
*some* of the sound, making a game sort of stereoish.  I've got a
BASIC synthesizer routine that sounds WICKED when made stereoish.

Fun fact: Floppy (the game) has different sounds coming out both the
port and internal speaker.  It's stereo!
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