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Phasor Sound Card Mini-Manual
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PHASOR SOUND CARD MINI-MANUAL
or All About the Applied Engineering - Phasor Apple ][ Sound Card!
Compiled and edited by Charles T. Turley
I've wanted to have a Phasor Apple ][ Sound Card for years, if
for nothing else, just to be able to check it out and see exactly
what it can and can't do. Ever sense I saw it at an AppleFest show,
at the Applied Engineering booth display, I've been looking around
for a Phasor sound card at a really reasonable price.
The Phasor is fairly rare and hard to fine today. As I recall, less
than a thousand were sold. I was lucky to find a nearly new Phasor
Apple ][ Sound Card for $3 (US) in a local flea market just last
weekend. The Phasor hasn't been commercially made and sold ever
sense Applied Engineering went out of business.These days your best
place to find one would be in Apple ][ computer swaps, used computer
stores, bargain stores, thrift shops, flea markets, BBS', usergroups
or ocassionally they might be offered for sale or trade in the
newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2.marketplace.
Another possible source for the card, manual and/or software from
Australia is noted below.
Applied Engineering
Terry Cass
13 Sunlight Drive
Burleigh Waters 4220
Gold Coast Qld.
Terry was a former distributors of AE equipment in the SE Asia region,
and now repairs AE equipment and cards, as well as continuing to sell
stock left since AE went out of business.
Phone 61 7 55 75 9099
Fax 61 7 55 78 8874
Web page: http://mars.nettrek.net.au/appleserv/welcome.html
email: applserv@mars.nettrek.net.au
Phasor is a MockingBoard compatible style sound card that was made
and sold by Applied Engineering. Looking at the software that comes
with the Phasor may be helpful to MB users. If you should be able to
obtain one of these Phasor sound cards but, didn't get the manual
and/or software with it, perhaps the following might be of help to
you. The software consist of four 5.25 disks and the information
concerning them, their functionality and where to obtain them is
listed with links below.
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ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net//pub/apple_II/images/utility/sound/phasor1.dsk
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net//pub/apple_II/images/utility/sound/phasor2.dsk
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net//pub/apple_II/images/utility/sound/phasor3.dsk
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net//pub/apple_II/images/utility/sound/phasor4.dsk
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About: phasorx.dsk with x = (1-4)
Software name.........: Phasor utility disk (AE sound card)
Computer..............: Apple II=. IIe and/or IIgs
Format................: ProDOS
Disk Operating System.: ProDOS 8
Disk Contents:
Utilities for the Applied Engineering Phasor Sound Card.
Configuration & Test Utilities
Music Player
Speech Program
Songs and noises
Music Editor
Sound Builder
Currently available (as noted above with the ftp direct file links for
all four disks) as Apple ][ disk emulator image files from the Apple
][ Emulator Asimov ftp archive site, they can be converted to Apple
][ 5.25 disks for use with the card in your Apple ][ using the
disk2file Apple ][ program, available from Ground, it's mirror on
Liquify or the program authors site (links noted below);
ftp://128.255.21.234/apple2/upload/Nov97/DSK2FILE50.SHK
ftp://128.255.21.234/apple2Emulators/DSK2FILE50.SHK
ftp://liquefy.isca.uiowa.edu/8/ground/apple2/Emulators/DSK2FILE50.SHK
ftp://kreeft.intmed.mcw.edu/q/pub/apple2/dsk2file/DSK2FILE50.SHK
http://keaggy.intmed.mcw.edu/dsk2file.html
The Phasor is a amazing and unique designed Apple ][/IIgs sound card.
It works with the Apple IIgs but, WILL NOT function as a true Stereo
card with any IIgs program that uses the actual Ensoniq DOC chip.
The Phasor provides twelve sound channels with a varity of wave-form
patterns and effects included, a lot like FM-synthesis. The Phasor
sound card has four white noise generators and a unique one-voice
synthesized speech channel, expandable to 2 speech channels. The
Phasor also features it's own 4 watt amplifier that can drive stereo
speakers (left & right). It's compatible with most older sound cards,
like the Mockingboard, ALF, SMS and Echo+. A 256 color gif of the
The Phasor sound card Ref. F, fully populated with all sound chips
can be viewed from the following url:
ftp://209.100.61.57/pub/A2.HISTORICAL.STUFF/A2.COMPUTER.CARDS/PSC.GIF
The four DIP switches control emulation modes and standard Apple ][
internal speaker sound-level (only if you disconnect internal speaker
and have old speaker toggling sent to Phasor). Switches #1 and #2
are for emulations. Switches #3 and #4 control your old internal
speaker sounds, provided you have the speaker disconnected and the
pin located on motherboard connected to Phasor sound card
You can set Low, Medium and High volume with three different DIP
positions. The DIP positions won't alter the Phasor music/sound
however. To do that, you must turn those two pots you asked about.
Each controls either the left or right stereo channel. Turning them
clock-wise increases volume, and you probably don't want this too
high up, or sound gets distorted! Put both on an equal setting,
unless you want one channel louder/softer than the other.
Phasor DIP switch emulation modes:
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Native Phasor mode: 1: closed, 2: closed
Mockingboard mode: 1: opened, 2: closed
Echo+ mode: 1: opened, 2: opened
The Phasor is more of a II+ and IIe sound, speech and stereo card.
But, can be used with the IIgs, virtually bypassing the Ensoniq DOC
in every respect. Actually it is a jazzed out styled Mockingboard
clone stereo, speech, sound card, all in one card. It can function
with it's programs as; music player, speech program, song and noise
creation utility, Music Editor and special effects sound Builder In
the IIgs it's a real tight fit, but it does fit. It works in the IIgs
just fine.Bbut there is little reason to install it in one beyond
having the better sound built-in. IIgs specific stereo digitizers
and/or sound cards using the Ensoniq DOC are more impressive.
However, it's possible to have and use both the Phasor and other
Stereo digitizers and/or sound cards in the IIgs.
There are four sound chips (General Instrument AY-3-8913) on the
Phasor each capable of 3 voices and 1 white noise generator. So,
totaled it presents 12 voices plus 4 white noise channels. There's
also a fifth sound chip that's speech synthesis specific, labeled
(SSI263 AP) N8513, with an empty socket next to it, if you want to
add another, if two voices talking at the same time are desired. It
does clean stereo output and also has a four watt amplifier on the
card. With the DIP switch settings you can use three modes: Native
Phasor mode, Mockingboard emulation and Echo+ emulation.
The game Ultima V is supported by the Phasor sound card. As should
be most Mockingboard specific games and all such Apple ][ sound
related software. However, some programs do search for either a
specific ID byte or address to locate the presence of a Phasor card
and use of it.
The Phasor sound card was sold new with two 5.25 double sided disks,
consisting of; Configuration & Test Utilities
Music Player
Speech Program
Songs and noises
Music Editor
Sound Builder
General references and information derived from;
Deja News Archives: 1995 thru 1997
http://www.dejanews.com