Re: sound volume on IIe

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Donald Lee asked:

>Hahaha, I found something out funny years ago.  I was playing a game on
>the IIe (I believe it was Defender or Robotron...but I don't recall
>100%).  For some reason, I decided to to put in a cassette player to the
>cassette output port in the back of the IIe.  Interestingly enough,
>sound for the game was routed to the cassette player.  
>
>If I remember correctly, this didn't work for all games....I think only
>that one game I was playing.  But it was fun to have a volume control.
>
>Anyone have any know-how about why this was the case?

Some programmers just put in an extra LDA $C020 to flip the
cassette output as well as the speaker.

My guess is that quite a few prople preferred the better speaker
and volume control of a cassette deck or stereo, and this was a
trivial way to support it.

-michael

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