The Christmas Demo shown in this video can be run with MAME using its Echo Plus emulation, but the program that came with the Cricket shown here and the dealer Demo Cricket program shown elsewhere must find a Cricket, and no emulator supports the Cricket to my knowledge.
This is the kind of video I would make if I had more time. Fascinating look at hardware not yet currently emulated. The Music Construction Set extra hardware support is especially surprising, didn't the original Apple II version only support the mockingboard?
Interesting to see how they likely had to do the programming for the music using timing based on CPU cycle counting rather than using more precise hardware mechanisms not supported on the 2c?
The Christmas Demo shown in this video can be run with MAME using its Echo Plus emulation, but the program that came with the Cricket shown here and the dealer Demo Cricket program shown elsewhere must find a Cricket, and no emulator supports the Cricket to my knowledge.
This is the kind of video I would make if I had more time. Fascinating look at hardware not yet currently emulated. The Music Construction Set extra hardware support is especially surprising, didn't the original Apple II version only support the mockingboard?
Yes, the earliest version I have found only had three sound options, Mockingboard Sound II, Mockingboard Sound/Speech and Apple Speaker.
Interesting to see how they likely had to do the programming for the music using timing based on CPU cycle counting rather than using more precise hardware mechanisms not supported on the 2c?