Beginning Programming Using Retro Computing: Learn BASIC with a Commodore Emulator

© Gerald Friedland 2019

Gerald FriedlandBeginning Programming Using Retro Computinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4146-2_4

4. Sound

Gerald Friedland¹ 

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Berkeley, CA, USA

 

The computer can make sounds. Let’s try that! Make sure you have some speakers connected and turned on. Let’s start the Commodore 16 again.

Now you need to tell the computer how loud it should be. The command is as follows:

VOL 8

Press RETURN.

8 is the loudest, 1 is the quietest, and 0 means no sound.

It looks like this:

Then, let’s actually play a sound. The command is SOUND. ...