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An interesting Apple II cassette ditty
Hi,
Just wasting time this morning, I got to wondering what each of the 256
possible bytes sounds like when written to tape. Of course, in what I'm
about to show you, no tape was ever involved, rather, a digital wav
recorder. Anyway, I came up with the following Applesoft program.
0 a = 8192
10 for b = 0 to 255
20 for n = a to a+63
30 poke n,b
40 next n
50 a = a+64
60 next b
When I ran this little masterpiece, I went into the monitor and wrote
that data out to tape. And it actually sounds like a strange little ditty.
No, it almost certainly doesn't conform to any western scale, but you never
know! This might be the next big hit all the radio stations are playing!
http://www.bluegrasspals.com/appleditty.mp3
It's interesting to say the least. No idea if that will actually load
into an Apple, being an MP3. However, it can be recreated on a real Apple by
running the above Applesoft program, going into the monitor, then executing:
2000.5fffw
Jayson