Re: sound volume on IIe

[julian814@hotmail.com (Ralph Glatt)]

mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20030914212453.24534.00000859@mb-m16.aol.com>...
> Ralph Glatt wrote:
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> >> > > Last night I couldn't sleep so I turned on my IIe to play Karateka.
> >> > > Only, in the night's silence the beeper sound really was too loud!
> >> > > I don't want to wake up anybody so I was wondering if it would be
> >> > > possible to add a volume control knob to it. Any hints?
> >> >
> >> > I thought the //e had a phono jack on it? You could just plug in your
> >> > earphone, and not bother anyone. ;-)
> >> 
> >> The IIc does, not the //e. She still has the cassette in/out.
> >
> >The IIc also has volume control. ;-) Unfortunately, the sound
> >digitizing software that I have requires the cassette in/out, which
> >the IIc doesn't have.
> 
> Ralph, perhaps you can find the (probably few) places where
> the software references the cassette output and patch it to
> reference the speaker location, instead.
> 
> Input is a bit more difficult, since the //c doesn't have the
> cassette input signal conditioning circuits.  You would need
> an external amplifier to drive a transistor to switch a pushbutton
> input (and the corresponding software patch to change the
> cassette input sampling to the pushbutton input).

In case you haven't guessed, the software I'm talking about is
SoftDAC. I think I can still get sound out of it, but not record. I
recall there being some company in India that made it possible to
digitize sound through the game port, but I was kind of leery of
dealing with them. I do have a //e, so if I really want, I can use
that to record.


Ralph Glatt