Another Apple II instrumental – Boxy’s Lament

2009 November 3
by JJ Sonick

New Apple II song for the Mozomedia Music Podcast.  The drum loop is one of the default patterns available with the DX-1 Sound Sampler Card.  The melody, such as it is, was me playing the Soundchaser keyboard which interfaces with the Mountain Computer MusicSystem cards to produce the dirty sound synthesis.  Finally, I added some various bleeps and bloops recorded from messing around with the Sound Effect editor of Activision’s ‘Game Maker’ program (Game Maker’s sound editor is pretty fun to play with and has a decent UI – I recommend it!).  Here’s the music:

Boxy’s Lament

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2 Comments leave one →
2010 April 9
Henry Spragens permalink

Hi, just stumbled across your website while looking for Apple II music. I have resurrected my Apple II and its musical hardware / software and posted a few sample MP3s to mobile.me.

http://web.me.com/henryspragens/Apple-II/Apple_II_Music/Apple_II_Music.html

More music coming, and I hope to get some old graphics demos up if I can get decent screen captures as MPEGs and QuickTime movies. These old Apples can do a lot more than people think.

I like your song – much different from what most people were doing with A2s back when. I seem to recall using the DX-1 as a MIDI drum machine with a Passport MIDI card.

2011 March 25
Ralph permalink

It sounds like the Soundchaser and Mountain Computer cards have been a fun project. I have the two-board Mountain Computer board set, the light pen, the Passport soundchaser (keyboard only) and some disks that came with the Mountain Computer set.

I would love to get some close-up photos of the front and back of the Passport interface card, since I’m going to need to build one…

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