And I just threw away an old PS/2 and two PCjr computers.  All I have
left in my old computer stock is a 486/33.

Well, I'll have to play with it anyway.  Thanks!

-Adam

On 8/30/06, Timothy Weber <tw@timothyweber.org> wrote:
> M. Adam Davis wrote:
> > On 8/29/06, Timothy Weber <tw@timothyweber.org> wrote:
> >> I can offer some old code for a very convincing cricket sound, modeled
> >> on a Scientific American article from the 70s.
> >
> > Please share!
> >
> > -Adam
>
> Well, I dug it out of the archives, but I doubt it's useful.  BASICA,
> apparently:
>
> 10 'CRICKETS
> 20 FOR Z=1 TO 8
> 30 FOR X=1 TO 10
> 40 SOUND 1800,.05
> 50 NEXT
> 60 SOUND 2000,.02
> 70 FOR X=1 TO 1800
> 80 NEXT X
> 90 NEXT Z
>
> I tried running it in GW-BASIC on an XP machine, but unsurprisingly, it
> made a totally different sound.  Trying to model its output directly
> requires knowing how fast BASICA could execute a FOR loop.  So, I think
> you'd need the identical machine - an 8088 running at 10 MHz or so, if
> IRC - to get the same sound.
>
> Probably easier to catch a live cricket and put it next to a
> microphone... Or I bet Google could find a useful recording somewhere.
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