Re: Reliving the disk ][ in...emulation?!

[Mark McDougall <msmcdoug@no.spam.iinet>]

Lyrical Nanoha wrote:

> it lacks the "spinning motor" effect because I can't do something like 
> that in realtime.  sounds very little like the real drive since all the 
> sounds are chirps, but you can tell the old familiar distinctive
> "beep-click-click-click-click-click" reboot sound, and the familiar 
> sound of loading ProDOS... *_*  it brings back memories... wish I could 
> make it sound more realistic and put it in SDDapple... *__*  anyway, it 
> was just on a lark, and it did the job well.

Heh, one of the TRS-80 emulators has an option to produce realistic sound 
effects for the drives... and it's bloody annoying after about 30 seconds - 
which makes me wonder how I put up with it back in the old days (I guess I 
had no choice!)

Regards,

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