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Apple 2 Disk Drive Sounds Copyright (C) Moose O'Malley,
-------------------------- January 2011.
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| T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S |
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| * Introduction |
| * Other Projects Using These Sounds |
| * License / Limitations / Restrictions |
| * Amendment History |
| * Contacting the Program's Author |
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Introduction :
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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).
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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 :
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See the readme file that accompanies my "Apple 2 Disk Drive Sound Simulator"
program.
License / Limitations / Restrictions :
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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 :
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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
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Moose's Software Valley - Established July, 1996.
WEB: http://move.to/moose
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