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<h2 style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Video
&amp; Sound</h2>
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<h3>Video:</h3>
<p>AppleWin can display Apple
video in a variety of modes.
The display can also be run in a standard window or full-screen.</p>
<h4>Monochrome:</h4>
<p>This mode emulates a
monochrome monitor. You can choose
your monochrome color from AppleWin Configuration.</p>
<h4>Color (standard):</h4>
<p>This mode emulates a standard
color monitor.</p>
<h4>Color (text
optimized):</h4>
<p>This mode does a bit of image
processing to make text more
readable on the hires screen.</p>
<h4>Color (TV emulation):</h4>
<p>This mode emulates how colors
bleed into one another on a
TV.</p>
<p>On the hires screen,
alternating horizontal lines of color
are bled together to form new colors like grey, purple, pink, yellow
and
aquamarine. This effect was used in commercial games like Karateka and
many
hires adventures (eg. Mindshadow).</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Sound:</h3>
<p>AppleWin emulates both the
internal speaker (using the PC
speaker or sound card) and also the Mockingboard sound card (using a PC
sound
card).</p>
<p>Use the AppleWin Configuration
tab labelled <em>Sound</em>.</p>
<p>If you are using a sound card,
then use at least
DirectX-9.</p>
<h4>Speaker:</h4>
<p>You can select PC speaker or
sound card:</p>
<ul>
<li>PC speaker: This is not
recommended as the quality is poor. It is not usable on Windows 2000 or
XP.</li>
<li>Sound card: Recommended</li>
</ul>
<h4>Mockingboard:</h4>
<p>When the Mockingboards are
enabled, the cards are
physically plugged into slots 4 and 5 of the Apple //e.</p>
<p>Each Mockingboard is a type
'C': 2x AY8910 (3-channel
sound generator) &amp; 1x SSI263 (speech chip)<font face="Tahoma"><br>
</font>Each AY8910 is fully
emulated (tone, noise &amp;
envelope).<font face="Tahoma"><br>
</font>Each SY6522 (that controls
an AY8910) can generate
precise timer interrupts or phoneme-complete interrupts.<font face="Tahoma"><br>
</font>Emulation of the SSI263 is
basic at the moment and
only plays back phonemes at a fixed rate without any support for
inflection or
filters.</p>
<p>There are a number of games
and demos that support
Mockingboard, eg:</p>
<ul>
<li>Adventure Construction Set</li>
<li>Lady Tut (Mockingboard
version)</li>
<li>Mockingboard Software
(Sweet Micro Systems)</li>
<li>Music Construction Set</li>
<li>Night Flight</li>
<li>Popeye</li>
<li>Rescue Raiders v1.3
(Speech only)</li>
<li>Skyfox</li>
<li>Spy Strikes Back</li>
<li>Ultima III (Mockingboard
version)</li>
<li>Ultima IV</li>
<li>Ultima V</li>
<li>Willy Byte</li>
<li>Zaxxon (Mockingboard
version)</li>
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