Mockingboard emulator (was: Late night musings...)

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article geoff@seeker.the-hermes.net (Geoff Weiss) writes...
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>Martin Gruen <z008729b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us> wrote:
>>  Bear with me, it could be made to run smoother without slow downs when 
>>there's too many things moving on the screen at the same time (as higher 
>>levels in many II games tended to do).  A mockingboard/echo emulator 
>>could be routed through the ensoniqe without the need of putting one of 
>>those cheesy things into a otherwise cool system.  Some problems like 
> 
>Mockingboard-compatible software communicates to a Mockingboard by
>accessing the slot-based hardware directly.  The ensonique use very
>different technology and different memory locations.  Apple II
>Mockingboard software wuold have to be completely rewritten to support
>an esonique--even an ensonique emulating a Mockingboard.

    I've mentioned this little known fact many times before, but 
the MDIdeas Christmas Jubebox player demo (circa 1986) allows the
Ensoniq 5503 to emulate a Mockingboard through software. If you
drop music sequences from an ALF, Mockingboard or Phasor board
at it, it plays them! The Christmas songs that came with it are
the very same ones Applied Engineering shipped with their Phasor
board, that is what led me to discover it. :)

    I could post it to comp.binaries.apple2 (it wasn't commercial
I believe, merely a dealer demo) but all I have is a sector-edited
and otherwise annoyingly modified 1WSW copy. :/ Much of the original
was written under Applesoft BASIC, which makes it even more interesting.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca