iTunes on Apple IIe

Enjoy music on your Apple //e in just seven easy steps! Amazing monophonic 8-bit sound on the built-in speaker!

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Comedy

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• New Announcement from Apple
• iTunes
• ][
• ][e
• vintage computer
• Beagle Brothers
• Walkman
• 360K Floppy
• Old Technology Humor

[coondogtheman1234]

how do you do this? Does it play the audio from the walkman or is it sampled by the hardware?

[ACBMemphis]

@coondogtheman1234 Using a special app, the Apple IIe samples the audio and stores it on a floppy disk. Then, it can be played back from the floppy over the Apple's internal speaker. It is a very primitive digital voice recorder using 1980s technology.

[mrslig100]

So cool XD

What was the track playing at the 1st half of the vid.

[ACBMemphis]

@mrslig100 The goofy music at the beginning is from a 1957 film called 'In the Suburbs' - this and many more films are available for download at archive.org under Prelinger archive. They are public domain so you can use and edit for YouTube. The clip at the end was actually coming from the IIe on a disc from the 80s - I think it's What's on Your Mind by the Information Society - Leonard Nimoy's voice was sampled saying "Pure Energy" in this song.

[angularsteelmitron]

Outstanding. I just cleaned up my old Apple IIe and fired it up yesterday. I made the comment to a friend that I should take it into an Apple store and see if one of the 'geniuses' can help me install iTunes on it. He then found your video and recommended it to me.

[ACBMemphis]

Thanks! Shortly before making this video, I powered on that IIe for the first time in about 20 years. That music playback program is something called 'DoubleTalk' that came on a magazine-on-disk called SoftDisk - I think from the mid-80s..

[zetabeta]

This would actually be an insanely easy app to write. I'm surprised it never occurred to me to use the tape input as a solution to the vastly limited memory issues with IIe's. The app seems to be as simple as, input from tape -> playback sound or don't -> start over. This is the equivalent of converting a (usually 44khz) wave file into 10khz file with a volume threshold around 128 (mid-range). Genius!

[coondogtheman1234]

@ACBMemphis

Is there a way to bypass the disk and stream the audio thru the IIe's hardware? or even hook the walkman's audio out into the little amp that powers the little speaker and bypass the CPU altogether. Would be strange to hear pumped up kicks on an apple IIe.

[Kg277]

Sync your walkman.... My ass!! Great!



[coelhovedo]

Nice! I was just messing with Doubletalk a few days ago. I believe with a 128k IIe you can sample about 40 seconds of audio.

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

even step 1 would make problems for me xD where do i get such a cool old machine? :-)