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