Apple 2 Disk Drive Sounds Copyright (C) Moose O'Malley, -------------------------- January 2011. +===========================================================+ | T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S | +===========================================================+ | * Introduction | | * Other Projects Using These Sounds | | * License / Limitations / Restrictions | | * Amendment History | | * Contacting the Program's Author | +===========================================================+ Introduction : -------------- This ZIP file contains the Apple 2 disk drive sounds that I recorded for use with my "Apple 2 Disk Drive Sound Simulator" program (Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP, Vista, etc). About the Disk Drive Sounds: (from my "Apple 2 Disk Drive Sound Simulator" program's readme). ----------------------------- As people may know from the Apple 2 Emulation section of my WEB pages : At the best of times, the Apple 2 disk drive used to make horrible grunting and scrapping sounds as it loaded programs. When I used to go to the local Burleigh Heads library and used the Apple 2 there, everyone in the library would stop and stare (and sometimes glare !) at us whenever the Apple 2 was reading floppy disks - the grunts and groans from the drive were *that* loud !! N.B. These terrible sounds were perfectly normal for Apple 2 drives, and they were quite loud as well, even when using brand new floppy disks and brand new floppy drives. However, people today didn't believe me about the sounds or how loud they really were. So now, a short MP3 of some Apple 2 disk drive sounds is available from my WEB page. And, in addition, I have written this program to simulate some Apple 2 disk drive sounds. All of the Apple 2 disk drive sounds were recorded by me on April 10 and 11, 2000. To record the sounds, I used a cheap microphone hooked up to my Windows 98 PC, which was running Goldwave a good sound editing program. I placed the microphone at the entrance to the Apple 2 floppy drive, and then proceeded to record the loading sounds the drive made for a bunch of games and programs. (I own an Apple ][c with both internal and external drives). Finally, in December 2001, I again listened carefully to the sounds I recorded 18 months ago, and edited out some of the more common sound bytes. Then, I wrote a Delphi program to play them back, and compiled all of the sounds into a single resource file, which was later compiled and compressed into the Executable program. That is why there are no WAV files accompanying this program - they are all contained inside the EXE file !! (See my "Apple 2 Disk Drive Sound Simulator" program). The "squeak" was a sound that the disk drive makes very occassionally when (I think) it is swinging its read head backwards and forwards very quickly and the rubber belt slips - not sure about how it happens but it does happen. It is definitely a sound the drive makes - not the door on the drive. I rember it happening on all of the Apple ]['s I used in the early 1980's and it still happens on my Apple ][c - but it is very occasional. The "Ghostbusters" digitised speech sound is not a disk drive sound, but I thought it would be fun to add this sound in as well to show what digitised speech on the Apple ][ sounded like. Back in the early 80's, this speech was state of the art and I remember times when people used to crowd around my Apple ][ just to hear it say "Ghostbusters" !! Other Projects Using These Sounds : ------------------------------------ See the readme file that accompanies my "Apple 2 Disk Drive Sound Simulator" program. License / Limitations / Restrictions : --------------------------------------- These sounds are freeware - which means they are copyrighted, but any person and any company is welcome to use them in your own programs / projects, subject to one condition. I am a friendly guy and I like supporting / helping other software developers. If you want to use these sounds in your own programs / projects, then that is fine: all I ask is that you add a credit to me on your projects's web page, the credits screen, the help file, or similar. A credit something like this would be perfect: Apple ][ disk drive sounds courtesy of Moose's Software Valley: http://move.to/moose Please don't just rip off my work / take my work without giving me any credit. Hope this is OK. Long Live the Apple ][ !!! Amendment History : -------------------- Vers Date Description 1.0 25-Jan-2011 First Public Release of these sounds on their own. If this ZIP file was not downloaded from my Home Page, then it is possibly an old version. The latest version of this ZIP file is available from my WEB page - see below. Mike "Moose" O'Malley ____________________________________________________ Moose's Software Valley - Established July, 1996. WEB: http://move.to/moose ____________________________________________________