A sound add-on called Cricket won't improve your batting average but it will enhance your Apple IIc.
For £171, you get some software, a built-in speaker, volume control, mini-stereo headphone jack and a cable to link up to the IIc's modem port. Once up and running you can produce natural and robotic voices, sound effects, music and it has a clock. With practice you might generate leather on willow.
Using Texas Instruments' 5220 speech chip, the Cricket features six channels of music and sound effects. The software has a number of built-in sound effects which can be added to programs. The clock built into the Cricket provides automatic dating of your ProDOS files and features music, sound and voice options to wake you up.
The Cricket's distributor is P&P Micro (0706 217744).
1st September 1984
