Re: Apple II music?

["Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net>]

"limtc" <thyechean@gmail.com> wrote:

>Is there any Apple II-related music that once you hear it, you are reminded 
>of Apple II?

IMO there is not. Back in those days it was considered pretty cool by "the 
common man" to play songs through the speaker. Sound cards were pretty much 
unaffordable by "the common man" and a non-standard luxury so until the GS 
unless you owned a C64 with a SID chip or had a load of midi gear or a big 
fat wallet the music was just speaker clicks.

Here, have a look here:

http://www.aztecmuseum.ca/Rando33.pdf

Those who have been around computing for awhile will remember that with the 
exception of Sakura (Japanese Folk Melody) and Scales, that the songs in 
Rando are the same songs featured in the IBM Basic Program:

The IBM Personal Computer Music Scroll
Version 1.00 (C)Copyright IBM Corp 1981
Licensed Material - Program Property of IBM

One of my early IBM-PC C programming efforts was to convert music from BASIC 
programs with sound or play statements to sound files of my own design. This 
old program from IBM is in fact the program that the songs that you will 
hear in Rando originated from. After the initial conversion to my own file 
format with whatever adjustments that my IBM program made to do so. They 
have then gone through my IBM to Apple II conversion utility SND2APP.