Re: Good Test-Programm for Apple //C?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

mdj wrote:
> Henry (.a.t.) wrote:
>
>
> > I actually used to have a nice Apple II diags program years ago.  For the
> > life of me I can't remember the name though.  I do have some diag disk now,
> > but no image of it.  I can make one and through it up on Web Server if you
> > want.
>
>
> Master Diagnostics was a popular one... I remember it having fairly
> extensive testing for disk drives and memory...
>
> A library of card identifier code would be a good thing to start,
> though. Combined with David's CPU identifier routines, plus model
> identification code, it'd be really handy.
>
> Beep codes sound a little old-school for me... how about somebody
> adapting a phoneme set to Michaels DAC522 and having the machine speak
> back it's configuration?
>
> :-)

Good point--though it might get a little cryptic to keep the
sampled sounds small.  ;-)  I realize you were suggesting a
phoneme-based synthesizer, which hasn't been done with DAC522.

However, the software version of S.A.M. is phoneme-based, and
would be a great starting point.

-michael

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