Re: Apple II Sound

[dastar@crl.com (Sam Ismail)]

Jeff Blakeney (jefbla@bconnex.net) wrote:

: Yeah that was cool.  Then there also was the game Sea Dragon that said
: "Sea Dragon" as it drew the title screen and when you started a new
: game it said "Good day Captain, the ships computers are now ready.
: Please wait while we initialize systems."  Or a least something close
: to that, its been a number of years.
 
Actually, that's exactly what it said, tbut the quality was shitty.  Still,
it was pretty cool for it's time.

: I also remember a program called AppleTalker which was for recording
: and playing back sounds on 8-bit IIs but I can't remember who wrote it
: or anything.
 
I still have that somewhere in my collection.  I never really played with
it much.  It was written by one of the more well known early 80s Apple/
Atari programmer types.  Like either (I think).  Like one of those guys who 
programmed activision games.  Can't remember a single name now but you know.
Maybe I'll go dig it out and check just for the hell of it.
 
With all this interest in sound recording, maybe I should upload my
Sound Stuidio program.  It was this pretty cool program I did for a
computer science contest.  It did all sorts of stuff with sampling sound
through the cassette oport.  It had a recorder/editor, a frequency
decoder (you could play single notes from a keyboard into it and it would
tell you what note you played), an audio monitor, etc.  Kinda like
what that other guy posting earlier has.  I also also did some work on 
voice recognition in this program but its maybe 30 percent accurate,
and that's just a fluke.  It works off of a one or two byte checksum
but you could swear that it works pretty good sometimes with a 2 or 3
word vocabulary.  If anyone's interested I'll go dig it up.
 
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.

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Sam
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