Re: Apple II Sound

["Charles P. Hobbs" <transit@primenet.com>]

Edhel Iaur, Esq. wrote:
> 
> On 14 Mar 1997 18:00:27 -0800, dastar@crl.com (Sam Ismail) wrote:
und like cool programs to me.  Lessee 'em!
> 
> >Oh yeah, I also wrote a little program that samples audio and play's
> >it out the speaker as you type, so you could be coding a basic program
> >while your radio played thru the apple speaker in the background.
> >Utterly useless but kinda neat.
> 
> Except for the "multitasking" bit, I added that kinda thing to Gary
> Little's routines.  That was SO COOL!  I "renumbered" his routines, so
> they both fit in page 3, and then I added my sound monitor.  It JUST
> fit.  One more byte, and the BASIC.SYSTEM entry points woulda been
> toast :D  It was useful for testing out what settings I should have on
> my tape player for recording on the //e.

Two programs with "speech" stand out clearly in my memory:

* that old "Calculator" demo (it displayed a calculator on the
screen, and spoke the numbers and functions as you typed them in)

* a type-in program from Compute that let users digitize speech
through the casette port (I still have this one lying around . . .)

There was also a few games that did some speech. . .with that one-bit
sound output, they sounded pretty beastly, but at the time, it seemed
really cool (hey look, the computer is speaking. . ..well, sort of)