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Mostly unrelated, but I remember typing in a simple calculator program (hex codes I think) from a magazine for my Apple IIe that would then speak the answer alo
by kordlessagain 2y ago
Mostly unrelated, but I remember typing in a simple calculator program (hex codes I think) from a magazine for my Apple IIe that would then speak the answer aloud. I was fascinated by the fact you could type in things that then created the sound of a voice. Googling isn't yielding much but I'll dig around and see if I can find it.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 2y agoMaybe you had a speech card for your IIe, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_II_(expansion_card) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_II_(expansion_card)
- pmarreck 2y agoNot necessarily. There was a lot of experimentation at the time and things that did hacky things like blip the mono speaker at different frequencies to produce interesting sounds were not out of the question.
- mads 2y agoI remember having the 1541 disk drive for my C64 play tunes.
- pmarreck 2y agoI remember this too, it was real, but it also apparently could damage the drive lol
- JSR_FDED 2y agoYou’re right, this was used to great effect in Castle Wolfenstein - where the guards would shout “Achtung” in German. If you accessed (either read or write) memory address $c030 it would move the cone of the speaker in or out. Do it fast and you can create tones and voices.
- themadturk 2y agoI remember a demo at my Commodore 64 users group one day...a guy loaded a bunch of stuff from a disk and output (with sound quality not that much worse than a car's crappy AM radio speaker) the first 10 or 15 seconds of "Kung Foo Fighting." Of course, the C64 had the VIC chip, but it was still freaking impressive.