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Re: To the person looking for old Apple II music
- Subject: Re: To the person looking for old Apple II music
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 21 Aug 2002 05:47:45 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
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Petar Puskarich wrote:
>About 4 months ago someone was looking into archiving some of the more
>interesting Apple II music. I offered to him that I had some old softdisk
>disks that had some really neat stuff to listen to.
>
>I found them recently and they still work. I have the Electric Duet
>versions of A Modern Major General and an Ragtime tune. Electric Duet
>songs were great because it actually sounded like 2 or more parts playing
>simultaneously on the the old II...
Unfortunately, they were pretty un-musical--out of tune and with lots
of spurious cross-product sounds.
Still, as Samuel Johnson noted regarding a dog walking on its hind legs,
"It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."
>If anyone is interested still I can .mp3 them up and post if ya like.
There is real nostalgia value in this. ;-)
-michael
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