Re: An interesting Apple II cassette ditty

["winston19842005@yahoo.com" <winston19842005@yahoo.com>]

On Jan 16, 11:17 am, "Jayson Smith"
<ihatespamratguynospample...@insightbb.spamsucks.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>      Just wasting time this morning, I got to wondering what each of the 256
> possible bytes sounds like when written to tape. Of course, in what I'm
> about to show you, no tape was ever involved, rather, a digital wav
> recorder. Anyway, I came up with the following Applesoft program.
>
> 0 a = 8192
> 10 for b = 0 to 255
> 20 for n = a to a+63
> 30 poke n,b
> 40 next n
> 50 a = a+64
> 60 next b
>
>      When I ran this little masterpiece, I went into the monitor and wrote
> that data out to tape. And it actually sounds like a strange little ditty.
> No, it almost certainly doesn't conform to any western scale, but you never
> know! This might be the next big hit all the radio stations are playing!http://www.bluegrasspals.com/appleditty.mp3
>
>      It's interesting to say the least. No idea if that will actually load
> into an Apple, being an MP3. However, it can be recreated on a real Apple by
> running the above Applesoft program, going into the monitor, then executing:
> 2000.5fffw
> Jayson

Is writing direct from the monitor bypassing any of the built-in
cassette routines? The reason I ask is I did the same for my TI-99,
and it doesn't sound all that fantastic - more like a regular cassette
program. I did a program similar to yours that poked 0-255 into
successive memory locations 12 times, then went to Easy Bug and did a
S7000 to 7BFF after verifying the data was still there.

Really isn't worth posting anywhere!