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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==
Maniac Mansion for the Apple II produced sound effects via its internal speaker and had no music.
Maniac Mansion for the Apple II produced sound effects via its internal speaker and the only music played is Razor/Sid's piano track.
It appears that not all sound effects were used in the game, this is noticeable when running the game through an emulator.
 
However these un-used sound effects still appear in the resources. A speculative guess would be that perhaps they  
It appears that not all sound effects were used in the game, this is noticeable when running the game through an emulator, of particular note is the lack of introduction audio.
were disabled because they did not sound right through the speaker.
 
However these un-used sound effects still appear in the resources.  
 
A speculative guess would be that perhaps they were disabled because the AppleII engine was unable to parse the sound resources synchronously, during playback the engine would pause and poll for keyboard input to stop the audio.


== The Sound Resources ==
== The Sound Resources ==
A sound resource appears to have the following format:
A sound resource appears to have the following format:
It is worth noting that byte number 5 seems to be always 0x01, but there is a check in the code for values not equal to 0x01. The final byte is always 0xFF
It is worth noting that byte number 5 seems to be always 0x01, but there is a check in the code for values not equal to 0x01. The final byte is always 0xFF
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