7 Mar
1999
7 Mar
'99
10:49 p.m.
I just got a //c over the Week End,
It came with what looks like a sound system: the item is in a separate
enclosure with what looks like a speaker and a volume knob. It's labelled
"cricket". Does anyone on the list have any infor on this item? Power
requirement, software that uses it etc...
Thanks
Francois
7 Mar
7 Mar
10:56 p.m.
I just got a //c over the Week End,
It came with what looks like a sound system: the item is in a separate
enclosure with what looks like a speaker and a volume knob. It's labelled
"cricket". Does anyone on the list have any infor on this item? Power
requirement, software that uses it etc...
You're lucky! Unless my memory is fried, the Cricket is a speech
synthesizer for the //c. I don't know if it plays music.
It's separate becuase putting anything inside the //c is very difficult. On
other ][ series machines, this kind of hardware came on expanion cards.
Sorry, I don't have any software for the Cricket or know where you can get
any. It may be compatible with some other speech chips (I sort of remember
that the Cricket was made by a company that had already sold a synthesizer
or two -- maybe the Echo?).
(You probably know that the //c already comes with a "sound system" -- a
small speaker that has to be entirely controlled by the CPU -- though it
DOES have a volume knob, and you CAN play two voices at once on it.)
Sellam will undoubtedly have more info. He may have the software too.
-- Derek
ObTopicDrift: Am I the only person who remembers the SoundChaser? (I think
that's what it was called). I always wanted specs on it. Was it MIDI?
8 Mar
8 Mar
3 a.m.
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Francois wrote:
I just got a //c over the Week End,
It came with what looks like a sound system: the item is in a separate
enclosure with what looks like a speaker and a volume knob. It's labelled
"cricket". Does anyone on the list have any infor on this item? Power
requirement, software that uses it etc...
Its a speech synthesizer speaker box. Unless a Cricket card was made that
could be installed inside the //c (I'm not aware of such a thing although
I won't rule it out) then this box probably went with something like a //e
that did have the speech synthesizer card in it.
Er, wait a second, I'm thinking of something different. I do remember
reading articles in mid-80s Apple magazines that were advertising the
Cricket. It may very well have been for the //c.
Try posting this message on comp.sys.apple2. Somewhere there should be
able to help you more than this message.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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