Martin Doherty wrote:
Don wrote:I wonder if those games were actually toggling both sound outputs ($C030 & $C060)?Actually, many years ago, for some reason, I plugged a input/output cable into the back of my IIe (I think it was into the "cassette" port). I put the other end of the cable into a old cassette player. Interestingly enough some games that I was playing with at the time actually sent the sound out to the cassette player. Voila, instand volume control! :) Anyone know the reason for why that occured? I'm curious because NOT all games sent the sound out to the cassette port when I had the cable plugged in. DonI can't think of any other way that the game would have been able to send its sound to the cassette port ... it certainly can't detect whether a cable is plugged in or not. It had to be built that way.
Yep--several games did that, for exactly the reason the OP used it. It was the easiest way to get the game sound out of a bigger speaker. -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."