Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: cybernesto Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Looking for a specific Echo Plus disk Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 15:56:04 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Mac GUI Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 15:56:04 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c11d969c58bc6b7bd43a641b3817dfac"; logging-data="29151"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18r5mS4OOBBLBmqF2ocDN2c" User-Agent: Mac GUI Usenet Cancel-Lock: sha1:eA0DBUKCniRWB1bCMXp+UIbJdVw= In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apple2:46933 Jayson Smith wrote: > Hi, > > When we first got our Apple IIe in 1987 we had a disk which probably > came with our Echo II Plus card, though I'm not sure. It booted into > ProDOS, and had a few programs on it, one of which used the Mockingboard > support on the Echo to play four very short songs (Camptown Races, > Sidewalks of New York, Oh! Susanna, and Way Down Upon the Swanee River). > It also had a spelling game that used pre-recorded LPC speech samples > and played some of those little jingles when you spelled a word correctly. > Hi Jayson, I have the mono version of the Echo+. It came with two disks that included among others a sound program that could play tunes based on chords and notes written in an AppleSoft string. It only included two sample songs: Yesterday and Yankee Doodle (with a gunshot at the end) A friend has the stereo version and his card came with only one two-sided disk. There the SW was more graphics oriented, similar to the one that was used for the Cricket! and included the same functionalities except for the clock. The spelling test there has some short musical interludes. I think the songs are indeed the ones you mentioned. I uploaded the disk images some time ago to archive.org. See https://archive.org/details/StreetElectronicsEcho and check ECHO+_1.DSK best regards, cybernesto