Hi,
When we first got our Apple IIe in 1987 we had a disk which probably
came with our Echo II Plus card, though I'm not sure. It booted into
ProDOS, and had a few programs on it, one of which used the Mockingboard support on the Echo to play four very short songs (Camptown Races,
Sidewalks of New York, Oh! Susanna, and Way Down Upon the Swanee River).
It also had a spelling game that used pre-recorded LPC speech samples
and played some of those little jingles when you spelled a word correctly.
Jayson Smith wrote:
Hi,
When we first got our Apple IIe in 1987 we had a disk which probably
came with our Echo II Plus card, though I'm not sure. It booted into
ProDOS, and had a few programs on it, one of which used the Mockingboard
support on the Echo to play four very short songs (Camptown Races,
Sidewalks of New York, Oh! Susanna, and Way Down Upon the Swanee River).
It also had a spelling game that used pre-recorded LPC speech samples
and played some of those little jingles when you spelled a word correctly. >>
Hi Jayson,
I have the mono version of the Echo+. It came with two disks that included among others a sound program that could play tunes based on chords and notes written in an AppleSoft string. It only included two sample songs: Yesterday and Yankee Doodle (with a gunshot at the end)
A friend has the stereo version and his card came with only one two-sided disk. There the SW was more graphics oriented, similar to the one that was used for the Cricket! and included the same functionalities except for the clock. The spelling test there has some short musical interludes. I think
the songs are indeed the ones you mentioned.
I uploaded the disk images some time ago to archive.org. See https://archive.org/details/StreetElectronicsEcho and check ECHO+_1.DSK
best regards,
cybernesto
Now the only problem is, with the MAME emulation of the Echo II Plus,Oh yes, the ECHO+ emulation in MAME is incorrect. They configured it like a Mockingboard with two 6522s instead of one. So the second AY8912 does not
I'm only getting the main melody of the little musical jingles, and not
the chords! I wonder why?
Oh yes, the ECHO+ emulation in MAME is incorrect. They configured it like a Mockingboard with two 6522s instead of one. So the second AY8912 does not
get addressed at all. I've been meaning to send a pull request with a fix
for a long time, but the project is a moving target and I get intimidated each time I look at it.
Hi, can you clue me in as to how the second AY is addressed on the Echo+
so
I can fix the issue? I haven't been able to find any decent technical documentation on the card.
Cheers,
-RB
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