Fredrik Öhrström Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 (edited) I found this old extended basic program and moved it from cassette to disk. Its an intro screen with music, to a game that I never started writing. OLD DSK1.STONEINTRO RUN Trivia! Who recognizes the music? Its unfortunately not our own composition. :-) (Note, js99er does not separate same frequency notes, played one after the other, they sound like one single long note. Whereas MESS does, and so does the original console. Ie. it sounds a bit odd in js99er.) (EDIT, after RUN it loads the music from a disk file, this takes a minute or so, then it starts playing.) thestone.dsk Edited September 10, 2015 by Fredrik Öhrström 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 VERY cool! I love the music and intro screen, no idea what it is... the music sounds good in Classic99 incidentally. So what kind of game was it going to be? Why not finish it now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprintcarfan Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Sounds ABBA-ish to me, but my thoughts may have been influenced by your location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Very interesting tune, but no game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Nice graphics, nice animation and nice music. Even though the music is melodic, I'm more over in the staccato department, maybe even a children's song or perhaps Kraftwerk ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredrik Öhrström Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 Its a translation/interpretation of Chimera by Rob Hubbard. Martin listened to a tape recording of the game, picked out the chords and wrote down the sheet music, I took the sheets and wrote them into a program. When playing music from Basic, we discovered that reading from data statements can take a significant amount of time, at least compared to reading the data from DIM variables. The reason that was not obvious to us, at the time, but seems quite reasonable to me now, ie for the DIM variables, no need to parse the basic bytecode and convert from decimal char string to floating point storage. To avoid duplicating the data in RAM, we stored the music on a cassette file, loaded into into DIM variables and played them. Woho! We could play notes much faster! :-) However the round trip time for editing the filegen program, execute it to store the casette file. Run the player program, load the casette file and listen to the result was .... long. Good thing we were very patient in those days. :-) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Try running it from RXB any TI Basic program works unless Editor Assembler support is required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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