{"id":6708,"date":"2018-02-05T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:32:11","slug":"apple-ii-mockingboard-promise-unfulfilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/2018\/02\/05\/apple-ii-mockingboard-promise-unfulfilled\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apple II and the Mockingboard – promise unfulfilled"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I continue to optimize what\u00a0remains of my collection<\/a>, I\u2019ve been focusing a bit lately on my Apple IIe Platinum (after a few hours with a nice multi-cart on my Atari 1200XL). Previously I “fixed” the keyboard,<\/a> and now I have both a single and dual Mockingboard configuration working (and, after this posting, I set up my CFFA3000 v1.3).<\/p>\n

For those who don’t know, the Mockingboard was an expensive add-on card<\/a> for the Apple II series, first released in 1981. It went through several revisions and clones (including modern recreations) over the years and was really the best way to enhance the Apple II’s meager built-in sound capabilities<\/a>\u00a0(of course, the Phasor was no slouch<\/a>, just hard to find).<\/p>\n

As with most add-ons, the catch with the Mockingboard was the lack of support. Here are the known software titles that support it (not counting some modern homebrew stuff, like Alien Clonepure<\/a>):<\/p>\n