Very creative combination of music and computer animation.
George Lazik
Reminds me of tuning a p-port :)
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Also reminds me of a time 35 years ago when I started a company called
MicroProducts in Hermosa Beach Ca.
I had a friend by the name of Bob Bishop whose day job at Jet Propulsion
Labs was rocket scientist. Bob and I ported a 6502 assembler to the
Apple II that just came out on the market. We sold thousands.
Bob wrote an animation/music combination program called Turkey In the Straw
which consisted of a 3D stick figure room slowly drawn on the screen. Then a small TV
set and other furniture appeared in the room. The next thing that happened was a stick
figure person appeared on the TV set. The stick figured started to dance
and the Turkey In the Straw music emanated from the Apple II speaker.
The dancing was synced to the music.
Not long after that a computer fair in the Moscone Center
in San Francisco was organized. Thousands of computer freaks showed up.
Various booths selling computers, computer accessories and software
were featured. Apple II and Apple II software dealers connected the audio out
of the Apple II to amps and large speakers. All you heard in the hall
all day long was Turkey In The Straw. That asm program sold thousands
of Apple II computers that day alone. The competitors to the Apple II
were still using binary toggle switches and blinking lights on the front
panel.
This was long before Apple had a floppy disk drive let alone a hard disk.
All programs were stored on audio cassette tape. I still have a bunch
of those tapes. No Apple II computer however.
Paul Lamar
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