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HopeHoops

(47,675 posts) Fri Dec 9, 2011, 12:22 PM Dec 2011

Historical note: Does anyone remember the original "Castle Wolfenstein" on the Apple II?

As far as I know, it was the first game to use voice simulation. A buddy of mine worked on it. The way they did it was to use the cassette port (remember cassette tapes? This is a song about cassette tapes.) and pipe in speech. They digitized it and just threw it back at the speaker. The sound sucked, but so did cassette storage.

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Historical note: Does anyone remember the original "Castle Wolfenstein" on the Apple II? (Original Post) HopeHoops Dec 2011 OP

I remember wondering why the nazis had so many chests filled with Liebfraumilch foo_bar Dec 2011 #1

I'll have to ask my buddy about the Liebfraumilch chests. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #3

I played that on our school Apple II's in junior high. Systematic Chaos Dec 2011 #2

My teacher parents would borrow their high schools Apple II for a week or two in the holiday's uriel1972 Dec 2011 #4

I played it on my Commodore 64. MrSlayer Dec 2011 #5

C=64 also had the most killer sound chip available. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #6

Berzerk was the first game I heard that used digitized speech Ter Dec 2011 #7

"INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! THE ENTRUDER MUST NOT ESCAPE!" HopeHoops Dec 2011 #8

Schweinhund! Gore1FL Feb 2012 #9

foo_bar

(4,193 posts)

1. I remember wondering why the nazis had so many chests filled with Liebfraumilch

Reply to HopeHoops (Original post)

Fri Dec 9, 2011, 03:48 PM

Dec 2011

I think it prefigured Grand Theft Auto, or at least it's the first video game I remember where the goal was to hold people up at gunpoint and steal all their Lebkuchen or whatever.

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

3. I'll have to ask my buddy about the Liebfraumilch chests.

Reply to foo_bar (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 10:29 AM

Dec 2011

Systematic Chaos

(8,601 posts)

2. I played that on our school Apple II's in junior high.

Reply to HopeHoops (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 02:59 AM

Dec 2011

The speech was even worse than limited amount of speech which had been implemented in arcade games up to that point.

But Wolfenstein was a hell of a game for its day.

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)

4. My teacher parents would borrow their high schools Apple II for a week or two in the holiday's

Reply to HopeHoops (Original post)

Sun Dec 11, 2011, 08:14 PM

Dec 2011

I think the most we got to play was Lemonade.

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)

5. I played it on my Commodore 64.

Reply to HopeHoops (Original post)

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 02:05 AM

Dec 2011

Beyond was better than the original. You get to kill Hitler.

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

6. C=64 also had the most killer sound chip available.

Reply to MrSlayer (Reply #5)

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 09:01 AM

Dec 2011

The Apple II relied on clicking the speaker to make sounds. The C=64 had a 4-wave sound chip with a shitload of functions. I wrote an assembly language program to map the entire chip onto the keyboard. It took a while to get used to playing it, but it was one hell of a synthesizer!