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Regarding the built in speaker, I have a disk called AppleRock ‘83 that has 4 or 5 sampled songs (Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, ZZ Top, etc). Plays through the speaker, no mockingbird. The audio is amazing.

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Some well-sampled straight-from-the-speaker Apple ][ sound:

https://youtu.be/oo46kKaHA3E?t=27

Of course, almost nothing sounded like that

Back in the late 80s I wrote a simple sampler for my old Apple][+ that used input from the tape port to tell the speaker when to click. Playing an audio tape at very high volume produced sort-of recognizable sound from the Apple. I never managed to get it to sound as good as some of the game intros of the day though.

The wonderful "Inside the Apple IIe" by Gary Little (https://archive.org/stream/InsideTheAppleIIe) has a program to digitize audio from the cassette port on the Apple IIe. It's an excellent demonstration of the versatility of the hardware and something I'd recommend to anybody who has a physical Apple IIe to play with.

Thanks! Can’t wait to try this. Meanwhile I have to post a YouTube video of AppleRock. I don’t see it archived.

Looking through that book, it’s not easy to find the demo you’re talking about without a hard copy. Do you have any idea which chapter might have it?

The book is great (wish I had access in 1987) and the demo starts on page 323 (#342 in the pdf)[0]. To find it quickly I used a long-forgotten arcane technique that was once known as looking-it-up-in-the-index.

[0] https://archive.org/details/InsideTheAppleIIe/page/n341/mode...

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