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<DIV>Try some of the 12 music disks in the Apple Talk disk library under </DIV>
<DIV>Dropbox</DIV>
<DIV>Talking Apple Archive</DIV>
<DIV>Jeff Weiss</DIV>
<DIV>Disk library</DIV>
<DIV>Music</DIV>
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<DIV>There is a lot of variety here—from single note songs, sounds, all the way
to the</DIV>
<DIV>Music Jukebox songs which were prepared with some type of software package
which actually could produce some good stuff with upto 4 voices.</DIV>
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<DIV>There is also some nice music in some of the UpTime magazine issues which
are under periodicals on Dropbox.</DIV>
<DIV>Jeff Weiss</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=crystallogic@ca.inter.net
href="mailto:crystallogic@ca.inter.net">JM Casey</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 16, 2017 12:03 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=blindapple@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:blindapple@bluegrasspals.com">Blind Apple Discussions</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Blindapple] "polyphonic" music on the 2
E?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>Hi everyone. I was just thinking of
something last night. I haven’t gone through all the disks available on the
Apple archive pertinent to this list, and I certainly haven’t tried downloading
inaccessible (as in, textalker won’t work) disk images from other sources, but I
know there’s a lot of music stuff in the archive. When I had an Apple 2 E
myself, there were a few disks containing music and sound stuff that were
occasionally fun to play with. All of them, though, played monophonic music – as
in, music with just one voice: a melody line without any harmony, counterpoint
or anything like that. There was one disk that we got for my sighted sister,
though, that had at least an intro that played a little tune with two
simultaneous voices. As far as I know, this was the only time I ever heard the 2
E do this, so I’m guessing it’s not very common at all. I don’t know what the
disk was called and it was certainly not blind-person friendly. I actually
remember trying to access the disk because I was curious about it, but it
dixdn’t seem compatible with either Prodos or Dos 3.3.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-CA>But anyway, I’m not wondering about that
particular disk or anything, but rather about the idea of multi-voiced music on
the 2 E in general. Is this really hard to pull off? How common is it exactly? I
know the sound capabilities of the 2 E were rather limited, maybe even compared
with those of the contemporaenous Commodore computers, for example (I seem to
recall my cousin’s C64 having games that played tunes with harmony and so on). I
just thought it was weird that out of all the disks I had, only this one silly
kids’ game where you had to match pictures or something played anything
resembling music with more than one voice. I’m guessing this had to be done in
machine language and that the programmes may have been so large that they would
have overwritten textalker, or something like that? Otherwise, why wouldn’t
programmers do this more often? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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